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by reureu 5y ago
I've been in the Bay Area for the past decade, mostly working for health tech startups. It's a weird world that I'm ready to fully divorce myself from. There's a lot of arrogance, much of it unjustified. I've seen a
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by reureu 5y ago
Infectious disease epidemiologist, but formerly data scientist in health tech. I’m really happy with my career currently, but I think some day I want to go back to direct service—- maybe something like a case manager or youth worker or simi
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I just need to avoid the ones that I have NDAs with from lawsuit settlements over their illegal activities ;) The companies I've listed are welcome to sue me. I'm in California, and I'm talking about matters of public interes
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by reureu 5y ago
I did name companies-- Cerebral and One Medical-- I just named them in a later comment. A few bonuses: BetterHelp and Noom, both rely on dubious studies of their efficacy to promote their products. 100Plus (prior to acquisition, I know less
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I'm happy for you. Hopefully they continue to offer you quick access to services. However, I'd encourage you to look on twitter and in the news for examples where Cerebral went radio silent on patients who were waiting for refills
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That's true - One Medical is definitely responding to a real need (lack of easy access to primary care). I don't think they'll outright collapse like the other examples, but I would think/hope there's a major shake
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Two that I'm comfortable sharing are: Cerebral (cerebral.com): first, their whole business model is about being a pill farm for controlled substances. So, out of the gate that's pretty concerning (but, yes, you can make a lot of m
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by reureu 5y ago
Having worked in health tech for the past ten years, I can name other companies that are equally massive frauds that just haven't been discovered yet. All you need is a good PR team and some big name investors, and it doesn't matt
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by reureu 5y ago
Soda is huge! I quit it back in December and have lost 15 pounds since. It's not just the calories in soda, but it's also how it screws up your sense of thirst and hunger. Water doesn't taste good when you're addicted to
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by reureu 5y ago
I second pandas, and would also highlight seaborn, plotly, and dash as complimentary data visualization libraries. Tableau is fine for what it is, but I've found that the requests from stakeholders often grow to a point where you eithe
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by reureu 5y ago
It's pretty common for gifted kids to wind up with a slew of issues when they get older. It's also pretty well known that "high achievers" often have a lot of leg ups that other people don't have -- or, stated anoth
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Amen to this. In a similar vein, in a heavily resourced constrained environment, the rest of the team may be really competent but be struggling to meet their own deadlines so just don't have the mental bandwidth or time to provide any
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by reureu 5y ago
A few months after I left a company, I got an email from their attorney telling me to sign an invention assignment form. No other information, so I asked to see the provisional patent that I was asked to assign to the employer -- after some
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by reureu 5y ago
I went through a similar situation about a year ago. Was burned out at work and my workplace had gotten increasingly toxic in our post-IPO world. I went on medical leave and short-term disability for 3-4 months, and used that time to work o
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They're typically just easy ways to submit early work, work in progress, etc to a conference with relatively little commitment. I'm in the biomedical informatics world generally, and for my conferences it's a one-page abstrac
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by reureu 5y ago
A few years ago, I decided to stop blogging and instead focus that energy towards sharing my work and thoughts in other (typically more academic) venues. So, now, I focus more on posters, talks, papers, and the like in my professional space
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Remember how people inside Theranos knew things weren't going well, and if they tried to say anything they got bullied into submission by the companies lawyers? There's a very real cost that comes with saying something, and that c
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I worked for a startup as a data scientist, where I built and managed one of our data measurement/reporting systems. The company would routinely overstate how well their product worked, but I largely chalked it up to "fake it unti
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Yes, that's exactly what it means. The author's argument is entirely predicated on a confidence interval that includes 0. Your $100 donation to The Humane League could kill 600 animals or save 1300 animals, or anything in between.
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One Medical failed to give out Covid-19 vaccines 'equitably'(thehill.com)
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I don't know, and the specific percent isn't the point. I'd encourage you to critically read bios of any Silicon Valley idols you might have, with an eye towards this. My personal epiphany came about 10 years ago. I was in an
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Elon was born rich. I wasn't arguing anything about any particular person, but rather commenting that a lot of the entrepreneurs and investors that get fetishized around here found their "success" from family wealth or by d
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I'm wary of most entrepreneurs, investors, and "thought leaders" offering advice as they tend to either be self-serving, productivity porn, or deep-seeming ideas that are easily said but impossible to implement. And, all too
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We don't know. That's part of what's made COVID so difficult to manage - it's a new virus being fought with relatively new vaccine technology. Most of us are used to doctors giving us advice that's pretty stable and
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The other commenter already pointed out that the 1.27% isn't really a meaningful data point around reinfection risk (beyond the time issue, it's also a proportion of positives, which doesn't get at what we're really inte
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I'm so confused by your comment -- it doesn't tell a great story for anyone, regardless of vaccination status. We're all in this together, and a potential escape variant harms both vaccinated (by loss of protection) and unvac
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The basic epi coming out of South Africa suggests that prior infection alone is wholly insufficient to prevent against infection with omicron (hospitalization and case rates have skyrocketed despite an estimated 90% of the population with i
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Alternatively, work at a company that doesn't use "the room" as a political tool, but actually values their employees' input and is eager to have them involved in decision making.
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I've been pitched on no-code data solutions in healthcare for over a decade, and it never seems to work out. At least in that space, people confuse who their main audience is: I don't want to use a no-code solution because I can c
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The question wasn't if we're trying to eradicate it or not, or if we're going to ever return to a pre-pandemic normal, it's whether we're in an epidemic/pandemic or endemic phase. My point is just that, as tire

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