the_d3f4ult

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by the_d3f4ult 4y ago
I am not aware of any AI model or technology that functions as anything beyond a toy in the healthcare space. There's very little utility to labelling things in healthcare - even in fields like ophthalmology, dermatology or radiology w
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by the_d3f4ult 4y ago
> US doctors seemed really eager to waste money, like really eager, like it was creepy Your last point is purely a function of the liability culture in the states. US physicians are quite aware of what's appropriate and what's
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by the_d3f4ult 4y ago
Orthokeratology works! It just carries the risk that comes with contacts. https://www.aao.org/eye-health/glasses-contacts/what-is-orth...
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by the_d3f4ult 4y ago
I'm an ophthalmologist. Optometrist are very well educated and very competent. They tend to be better at things optics related like refractions, contact lens fitting, etc. and are perfectly capable of managing bread-and-butter medical
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by the_d3f4ult 4y ago
This is like saying taking out the "permit and licensing requirement" for pilots would lower the cost of airline tickets. It's just...more complicated than that. The cost of paying physicians is a drop in the healthcare bucke
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by the_d3f4ult 4y ago
What'd he end up doing? I don't know the specifics of your friend's situation, but I hear this a lot from older guys who want absurd buy-ins based largely on good-will.
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by the_d3f4ult 4y ago
I'm an ophthalmologist. This phenomenon is endemic to all outpatient and procedure-based medical specialties. Especially eyes and teeth but also including emergency medicine, radiology, gi etc. It absolutely does lead to poorer quality
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by the_d3f4ult 4y ago
99.9% of the time the drone is going to be worth way more than the package. Grabbing the cable and pulling the drone out of the sky for parts is more likely.
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
Everyone and their mother is working on ML applications in medicine.
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
These are skills I use every day as a surgeon. Also grew up extremely poor. Close to perfect SAT/ACT which led to a full ride to good private school. Math degree. NSF fellowship. And, so on.. Would not have happened without the SAT as
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
Google the complications of contact lenses...
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
The title is misleading. This would work to slow the progression of myopia, but won't do anything to reverse myopic changes. This works in a similar way to low-dose atropine which is already around the corner for slowing the progressio
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
I've done both. Got a BS in Mathematics followed by an MS in computer Science on an NSF fellowship. I worked a total of 6 years in tech following undergrad before starting medical school. Now I'm finishing a residency in Ophthalmo
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
Since we're embracing nihilism it seems appropriate to add that IQ scores are normalized by age, peak at 24 and then decline steadily after that.
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
The cornea and the lens are different anatomical entities.
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
Not the only real solution. Maybe the only pharmacologic solution, but it's only a matter of time before someone hits the nail on the head with an accommodating IOL.
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
yes
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
It will before your eyes stop growing at age 25 or so.
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
how old are you? How fast is it progressing? Keratoconus progresses most through the 20's. Bad keratoconus will destroy your cornea eventually requiring a transplant. I would seriously think about the cross linking. https://
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
There's no solution. The options you outlined above: Multifocal vs progressives vs readers vs mono vision are all we've got right now. There's some work on true accommodating prosthetics though. https://www.youtube
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
You already figured out the solution. The optometrist isn't going to do much else for you unless you need a distance prescription.
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
Lasik will not correct presbyopia unless you intentionally make yourself near-sighted. In that case you would need glasses for distance
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
Don't forget that if you miss an edge case lawyers will take your house and your life savings. Welcome to medicine = )
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
Bullshit. Very few doctors behave this way and it's generally any better tolerated in a healthcare workplace than in any other workplace. This is a media construct designed as a scapegoat for the many failures of the american healthcar
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
I'm a physician and I've thought a lot about this in the context of the US healthcare system. Step foot in a hospital and the first thing you notice is that everything is single-use, thousand-dollar widgets. I've been into t
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
These types of discoveries are becoming more and more common with the explosion of novel biologics.
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
They're designed to fit over regular prescription glasses and block light coming in peripherally. We give them to everyone after eye surgery. They're not specifically designed to prevent macular degeneration. Try them sometime, th
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
|I recall that a paper published by Oxford in a journal related to gerontology claimed that blue light accelerated aging of the |retina. If I understand correctly, this article doesn't counter that claim outright, it just didn't f
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
The audience member is correct. Myopia is caused by light entering the eye being focused in front of the retina by our natural lens and cornea, this is usually as the result of increased axial length i.e. elongation of the eye. The dangerou
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by the_d3f4ult 5y ago
The opticians weren't deceiving you. As we age our natural lens loses its pliability and we're no longer able to accommodate enough to read things that are up close. It's helpful to understanding the eyes' ability to foc

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