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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Not quite. The vent process itself requires careful management to provide net benefit (eg, controlling the level of sedation, avoiding secondary lung injury). So while the non-vent care is what makes the difference, improper use of a hospit
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
This is correct. Particularly the “if you are unwell enough to need the vent, the vent is the least of Your worries.” The vent keeps you oxygenating while we address the (usually multiple, overlapping and interacting) severe issues that led
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
That’s funny, because I wear the cartridge respirator outside of work for some hobbyist reno stuff I do, and find it much more tolerable than the N95. To each their own, I suppose.
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Sorry if I was unclear. ASTM3s do not provide self protection. They are estimated to reduce ambient virion uptake by about 2/3 - which just isn’t enough to make a meaningful difference most of the time, as 1/3 of the usual droplet
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Have you worn an N95 for any particular amount of time? Honest question. Because Uou refer to a few grams as “not uncomfortable.” I find N95 face masks insufferably hot and muggy, with their “few grams” hanging off my nose and ears eventual
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Shit-tons of people with the flu test negative for flu. It’s not a very sensitive test.
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Any post that fails to distinguish between N95 respirators and ASTM 3 surgical masks is too ignorant on this topic to make comments worthy of an upvote. The Surgeon General, on the other hand, does understand the difference and made an appr
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
They provide no /self/ protection. As I have said in multiple threads on this topic: we wear astm3 masks to protect /patients/ from /us/. A lot of hospital PPE is oriented towards /patient/ protection
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
During flu season. That line is always left out of this: the CDC doesn’t want to test just anyone with cold and flu symptoms ... during flu season. The false positives are basically guaranteed to absolutely swamp the true positives at this
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
In the same vein: It’s not young thugs that come in to medical centers trying to score painkillers; it’s middle-aged suburban moms. The former know where to buy on the street. It’s the latter that think of trying to lie to their doc. But in
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
I think it’s a little more nuanced than that, in a way the bill of rights never had reason to consider. The freedom of speech prohibits government control of speech in government (read: public) spaces, in order to conserve public right of c
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
This reads 95% like a personal statement for some university program - I was very surprised to see Matt Stone’s name at the end.
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Geico is so huge I expected their customer service to be an absolute shitshow. Then I totaled my car, and they were actually helpful and easy to work with. I remain shocked to this day, and I’m still 90% convinced it was a fluke.
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
> “SES" in this context is socio-economic status? I hadn't seen it used to classify hospitals before. Yeah, we were a safety-net hospital across the street from a prison. We got a lot of inmates, had a locked wing on most floor
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Can you provide any citations for that 80/20 breakdown?
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
I’ve worked enough EDs that this strikes me as quite true (about drugs and mental dx), but it’s not clear which way causality runs. Homelessness is not a condition in any way conducive to maintaining mental health. I’d be hard pressed to in
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
I think that’s a fair statement. As a human justice issue, I care that people get basic needs of living met. Whether that’s a house or some sort of communal arrangement doesn’t interest me. This is an intellectual feeling though - I have re
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
I spent some time working on a psych ward for a very low SES hospital. I can’t tell you how often we established a place of residence and continuity of care for patients before discharging them, only to have them more or less openly tell us
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
I think they do? I’ve definitely enabled/disabled the tiles on an individual basis. I just don’t recall whether it’s universally available to all programs, or a particular subset.
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
So... they have to examine the originals regardless. The new image adds nothing.
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Highlights of the 20th and 21st centuries: German unity.
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
And yet political discussions are constantly on the front page. How often do we make it a week without a lengthy tangent about real estate policy?
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Walmart does the same third party bullshit now, if you use their website. For sensitive things, I now buy direct, or Target.
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
The failure of the legitimate market causally explains the emergence of a black market. It doesn’t morally vindicate people who sell exploits on the black market. This is, I don’t know, kindergarten-level ethics? I’m flabbergasted at the se
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
If you traded in your old car, and paid for a lemon, their buying back the lemon is fine - but you probably want your old car, too. The ISA is only one part of what they “paid” to attend. The other thing is months of opportunity cost, loans
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Legal scale is being big on paper, such as a single corporate entity owning multiple others. This implies, but does not require, efficient operational amassing of men and capital.
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Yes. Did you mean to say “can it be over-appreciated”? It can be that, too. It ain’t slavery.
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
I don’t think there’s a single discussion about boot camps that doesn’t discuss the immense cost of having to take months away from your money-earning life. Why do you feel that this is an under appreciated topic?
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
The US was last attacked in living memory; Pearl Harbor survivors still number > 0. I will leave the WTC attack on the table, as I’m not interested in a nitpicking tangent about what constitutes an attack in asymmetric warfare vs. “terro
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by prostheticvamp 7y ago
He wasn’t silencing anyone. There were no black suits with billy clubs outside. He was warning the kid that if he went around repeating that aloud he’d burn himself on the interview trail as someone too naive to tow the corporate line and l

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