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by paviva 8y ago
De materia medica refers to "mūmiyā", a kind of asphalt, and not to human mummies. The use of human remains began during the Middle Ages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia
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by paviva 9y ago
As pointed out by IIIIIIIIIIIIIII, antibodies are way too massive and are not excreted in any significant amount (again, I am talking of normal physiology, not someone with very advanced kidney disease). To give you an idea of the weight d
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by paviva 9y ago
Very good question and a very good answers in this article! I'll add one more reason not explored by the authors: antibodies don't "leak" in the environment, in contrast to the antibiotics which are everywhere. For examp
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by paviva 9y ago
> Any hard research showing this? Probably not. Or, better stated, not that I am aware of. Let's think. Seeing a doctor instead of a PA is associated with better outcomes if, and only if, your condition can benefit from the doctor&#
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by paviva 9y ago
> Robot-assisted_surgery Is based on the premiss of a smaller incision and more precise tissue manipulations leading to better outcomes. Nothing to do with a camera ;) > presence of cameras automatically makes medical care low-quality
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by paviva 9y ago
Indeed, and it's not even a joke, but a real phenomenon. Sources : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896592/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747093
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by paviva 9y ago
In most services, the treating physician is rotating on a weekly basis. That's pretty much the most convenient/tolerable/safe period of continuous work, as long as you do not receive more than 2-3 calls per night. Call number
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by paviva 9y ago
Absolutely does. And that's precisely the reason why inpatients are treated by the same doctor for as long periods as is humanely possible, i.e. usually one-week stretches on call.
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by paviva 9y ago
And those "data-points" are worthless. You're basically suggesting cooking thru a camera and expecting better outcomes because the broth is constantly monitored by a cam.
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by paviva 9y ago
The intelligent investor by Ben Graham. He's long dead, so no conflits of interests.
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by paviva 9y ago
German shepherds are great. I may sound crazy, but I really believe my GSD has some sense of language and is not just barking instinctively. His "I want to pee", "I want to eat", and "I need to poop" barks are
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by paviva 9y ago
Pareto
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by paviva 9y ago
You didn't ask me, but I am compelled to answer because its an interesting question, and, well, Russian is my native language. Till the age of eleven, I was essentially speaking only Russian. They did teach us some pretty rudimentary E
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by paviva 9y ago
There always be room for feelings, and empathy, but those will manifest only when you're not doing the technical job of medicine, i.e. the part of the job that will require your full attention and the full use of your skills. This wi
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by paviva 9y ago
https://physicsnapkins.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/all-paths-to...
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by paviva 9y ago
Actually, not true at all for medical papers. For instance, take the Annals of Emergency Medicine ( http://www.annemergmed.com/ ). More than 50% of corresponding authors use gmail.
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Why computer-aided diagnostics will not change medicine(pavlov.md)
1 points by paviva 10y ago|0 comments
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by paviva 10y ago
Actually, their methodology seems pretty sound, with robust findings, including in the subgroup of patients cared by hospitalists, where -- as the authors correctly point out -- patients are pretty much randomized to a female or male hospit
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by paviva 10y ago
Thanks Huppie, that's exactly what I was saying.
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by paviva 10y ago
You can't buy directly from Vanguard in Canada. Questrade is essentially a very low cost broker (low as in free for ETFs).
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by paviva 10y ago
> many central line catheter infections are preventable Again, of course some of them are preventable, and nobody's saying its OK to install central lines without putting gloves on, and so on. However, there is a baseline rate of in
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by paviva 10y ago
Of course, but those kind of reports do not make the difference between at least theoretically preventable events and those are related either to basic physiology or to dying people for whom the choice is between dying a little bit faster
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by paviva 10y ago
These kinds of metrics are almost not interpretable, for two main reasons : (1) as logicallee has mentioned, we're getting better at treating patients and preventing death due to disease. The better we get, the more different treatme
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by paviva 10y ago
Thus is hyperbole, of course -- hyperbole which serves to highlight that refusing to allow the patient to decide for himself, trying to force your own outlook "for his own good", is exactly the same as not giving pain medication b
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by paviva 10y ago
Compared to previous generations (and the change is quite steep -- I am talking about students today vs. students 5-10 years ago), a growing proportion of medical students have entitlement issues. Those issues are roughly two-fold : (1) fee
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by paviva 10y ago
It's not that painful. I self-inserted an IO a few years ago to demonstrate the technique, and it's really comparable to the pain with an IV. Some patients are so scared that they begin to cry even before the needle touches the sk
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by paviva 10y ago
> focusing too much on the dying/not dying distinction. Well, my point is that if they aren’t so bad, they don’t need IV fluids, and you can give them some juice with pretty much the same effect (I expect normal GI function). > i
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by paviva 10y ago
We don't have those in Canada for some reason, but I do agree, King is good.
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by paviva 10y ago
> but faster acting, no? Not really. Even regular tablets begin to act in 20 min, even faster with the sublingual ones. > Seems like a good idea for anaphylactic shock? A very bad one, actually. Some people might want to give an antih
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by paviva 10y ago
I'm sorry, but I'm not aware of any airline stocking combitubes[1] or similar easy airways (or at least an i-gel LMA). A Guedel can be useful sometimes, but that's it. Unless you have a rare scenario where you've got an

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