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by robbiep 5y ago
Non-heartbeat donors can be for corneal, bone and skin grafts
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by robbiep 5y ago
This is a profound misunderstanding of the driving forces of evolution. Why do we have wisdom teeth? Just because something is useless doesn’t mean it’s eliminated
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by robbiep 5y ago
I like the concept of 'paper bandwith'. That rings so true with my experience. I've lived through a number of transitions from paper to Cerner. At one hospital, they were going live across the entire 600 bed facility in a 2 w
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by robbiep 5y ago
Most of the major medical records systems are iterations of 1980-1990s platforms that (particularly in the case of cerner, or which I have an ungodly quantity of experience with) were adapted from accounting software and are focused on bill
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by robbiep 5y ago
I think those are reasonable points - one thing from my life as someone who has basically turned my back on gaming due to the ‘real life game’ I’m involved in is that tv is a good escape/unwind when I can’t be arsed exercising/soc
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by robbiep 5y ago
I agree with you. It took me a while to get my head around the approach they were taking (I re-read the whole series prior to it airing) but what struck me most on re-reading was how completely boring it would be to be faithful to it. Even
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by robbiep 5y ago
it says in both the article you link and the actual article that it's the first one for clinical, rather than research use
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by robbiep 5y ago
The philosophical name for this concept is panpsychism. Personally, I’m a panentropist (my own creation) - I hold that the spectrum of life/consciousness varies depending on the level of entropy. So a flame has a higher level of consci
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by robbiep 5y ago
Well some countries are saying proven infection is good for 7 months worth of vaccine coverage. But the length and time period of the immune response is likely much more variable than those who received vaccination
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by robbiep 5y ago
Addiction and the addictive ness of drugs is a multi factorial gradient. It requires the right psychosocial conditions, the right environment, and the right drug, and a person who might become a heroin addiction one day may not be so at a d
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by robbiep 5y ago
That is very different to when I was at BIDMC for my plastic surgery rotation as a medical student - I was shocked at the quantity of opiates people were going home with for simple things, let along DIEPs. I gave a talk to my team when I
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by robbiep 5y ago
There’s also ’ For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled’ by Feynman
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by robbiep 5y ago
The president of the AMA in Victoria (australia) 2 days ago came out saying that non vaccinated people should sign advanced care directives to opt out of resus care given their choices. It has been panned by the national AMA and the past pr
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by robbiep 5y ago
But the health system is engineered to cope with the base load, and there are also many public health measures designed to try and move their behaviour to more healthy ones as well. Just because the magnitude of the covid/infectious di
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by robbiep 5y ago
I haven’t assumed you’ve made it, I’ve asked you what it is. That you can’t detect that from my plain language is concerning as to your capacity to parse my sentences. But if that is what you’ve concluded, why don’t you make your point then
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by robbiep 5y ago
That’s not the point you’re making, in fact you’ve really failed to make any point except a poor attempt to anthropomorphise nature and not provide any examples of how nature ‘caring’ is a universal phenomenon
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by robbiep 5y ago
I haven’t watched it either (yet). I found this an interesting perspective however - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/dave-chapp...
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by robbiep 5y ago
That isn’t an answer to the question and doesn’t in anyway nullify the broader concept of nature as indifferent - animals are merely part of nature and my experience from truly being in raw primal nature is that, of course things react to y
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by robbiep 5y ago
What examples of nature are you talking about then? The time a dog was nice to you? Nature is literally indifferent to our existence
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by robbiep 5y ago
> but it must have a cost that our body plan discarded or at least failed to even consider many millennia ago. You only climb mount improbable, you don’t go down it
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by robbiep 5y ago
The a major cause of a ‘weak bladder’ outside of prostate issues is urge incontinence, that is, just paying way too much attention to the sensation of needing to urinate and so having increased frequency due to that. In order to overcome th
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by robbiep 5y ago
Wait till you find what we use salmon sperm for
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by robbiep 5y ago
The evidence around this appears to be most strong for actually having a long focal distance as being one of the most important factors (as opposed to the lux) - unless the evidence has significantly changed. I mean there’s probably a prett
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by robbiep 5y ago
They’re regrettable, they’re economically disruptive, and they must end, but absolutely - they save lives and we’re in the midst of a pandemic. No-one here wants to see the level of death and misery that has been visited on other countries
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by robbiep 5y ago
The term you are looking for is IFR
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by robbiep 5y ago
you have absolutely zero understanding of the nature of raising beef cattle. Which, for many subsets of cattle rearing, can basically be left to their own devices. From where I sit currently I can see our 150 head comfortably munch their
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by robbiep 5y ago
It seems you missed the point of the article - which is that given some of the fundamentals underpinning the growth of cells out of the body, with our current and mid-future predicted levels of technology, it is not going to be possible to
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by robbiep 5y ago
Firstly, it wasn’t at all clear how quickly antibody levels would fall, because the data wasn’t available. But it was clear to everybody with scientific literacy that antibody levels would fall over time, because that’s how immune respons
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by robbiep 5y ago
I’ve only ever seen a couple. And only one serious injury but they were silly enough to camp beneath a nest
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by robbiep 5y ago
That’s a better analogy - there have been countless extinctions and mass extinctions and the ecology shifts as the climate changes anyway. Nature is indifferent. It would be ‘good’ if we weren’t causing this one, but good and bad are concep

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