Too bad they didn't offer an unobtanium package, right @Aqua-Letifer

@Doctor-Phibes said in A Healthcare Problem: @Horace said in A Healthcare Problem: @Doctor-Phibes said in A Healthcare Problem: I honestly couldn’t give a shit. If he, she or they do a good job, I really don’t care what else they do in their spare time, or for that matter what religion or race they belong to. YMMV Imagine the number of people who would agree with that regarding lgbtqx doctors, but who would refuse to see trump supporting doctor. There would be millions of Americans who would self identify as being in that group. Two dumbs don’t make a smart I'm imagining the relative sizes of the two cohorts.

I'm sure the joyous union arrangement will last for years months a while.

I assume their political debates are mostly about trying to prove the other side is the bigger existential threat.

@LuFins-Dad said in Positive again: @89th said in Positive again: @George-K said in Positive again: After 5 vaccinations. I mean, the vaccinations aren't preventing someone from getting COVID, but they have helped massively in reducing sickness and death. Honestly, I wonder if I took a test every day (as I'm sure the CDC director and others probably do), I wonder if I would've tested positive. No, they haven’t. In your age range, 12 out of every 100,000 cases resulted in death in unvaccinated people. Now what do you think happens to those numbers when you take Diabetics out? https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.11.22280963v1 Try finding the post vaccination numbers. It’s actually quite difficult. This is a deadly disease for the elderly and those with co-morbidities. Much less so for everybody else. Even with the vaccine, an elderly patient with the vaccines have much worse outcomes than unvaccinated youth. Numbers are hard to come by, aren't they? And VAERS borders on useless. I would love to see vaccine reactions/serious problems/deaths broken down by gender and age group. I'd also like to see some current hard numbers on mortality rates in the elderly of COVID+comorbidities vs. Flu+comorbidities.

Ziinnnggg!

@taiwan_girl said in Parkinson’s, 30 years on: Does Parkinson make your bones more easy to break, or is it just more falling because of balance? As far as I know, there's no correlation between the two - just falling, I assume. However, it's interesting that Fox broke bones at a relatively young age. Another thing is that Fox's movement disorder is not typical Parkinson's. Parkinson's usually manifests itself as skeletal muscle rigidity, where "getting going" is difficult. Getting out of a chair, and starting to walk can be a challenge. His movements are more characteristic of tardive dyskinesia - which is more typical as a side effect of various psychotropic drugs, though it can occur in Parkinson's. Another atypical thing is that Parkinson's patients frequently have "masked facies," - an expressionless appearance to their facial musculature. One of my neighbors has PD, and I could tell, on first meeting, that he had it. He never told me about it, and it was only after about 4 years that his wife mentioned it.

@Jolly said in Misinformation or Disinformation?: It doesn't take much of that to turn your EV into a lawn ornament. I was going to say "Redneck lawn ornament," but then I realized it's pretty unlikely for a real redneck to own an EV.

@taiwan_girl usually they do sleep while standing. Being prey animals, lying down is a sure way to let a predator get the jump on you. However, if they feel very comfortable and safe, they will lie down, or sit. https://www.petmd.com/horse/do-horses-sleep-standing However, sleeping patterns and characteristics of horses are unique. Horses are polyphasic sleepers which means they have multiple periods of sleep throughout the day, with the majority occurring at night. Sleep patterns are based on the horse’s environment, social hierarchy, age, feeding, and familiarity with surroundings. One special characteristic of horses is that they can sleep standing up! How Do Horses Sleep? Four stages of vigilance have been documented in the horse: wakefulness, drowsiness, slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. In SWS, a horse’s brain waves are slow and synchronized. During this time, the brain is not functioning at an active level. SWS may occur while the horse is standing or in sternal recumbency (lying on the chest with legs folded underneath). In REM sleep, brain waves are rapid and irregular, like those of an awakened state. As the name implies, during REM sleep, a horse’s eyes move back and forth rapidly. As well as the eye movement, your horse may also twitch his ears or skin, blink, flare his nostrils, or even paddle his legs. REM sleep occurs while the horse is lying on his side in lateral recumbency. During REM sleep all the muscles completely relax and lose their tone. On average, most horses spend a combined total of 5-7 hours a day sleeping. It is generally accepted that horses spend approximately 15% of their total sleep time in REM sleep. While some horses get 2-3 hours of REM sleep per day, all horses need at least 30 minutes. There is no definitive amount of time that horses can lay in lateral recumbency, but they can’t stay there for too long. The horse’s weight alone applies pressure to areas of the body which restricts blood flow to vital organs and limbs. The lungs are also compressed, which can lead to abnormal breathing patterns. The pressure can also affect nerves, rendering the horse’s limbs temporarily paretic (muscle weakness caused by nerve damage). When horses try to get up, they have difficulty standing on all four limbs, which can lead to secondary trauma. How Long Do Horses Sleep Standing Up? Most of a horse’s sleep is done in the standing position and is considered SWS, as described above. Total sleep time is usually comprised of cycles of sleep interrupted by periods of wakefulness. A special anatomical feature of horses called the stay apparatus allows horses to sleep standing up. A stay apparatus is a group of tendons and ligaments that work together so that the horse can remain standing with little muscular effort. This is a great advantage for a prey animal, like a horse, so that in the event of an emergency they can quickly awaken and easily flee. Another protective tactic horses use while sleeping is to sleep in groups. They will rotate sentries—horses that will stay standing and alert—while the others rest. [image: 1667474829252-screenshot-2022-11-03-at-6.26.28-am-copy.jpg] What surprised me even more is that all of these horses were together in an enclosed space. It's not unusual for horses to have, um...disagreements about hierarchy. THere's a reason horses are kept in individual stalls. This just seemed dangerous to me.

Who said this? "...slammed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell this week, insisting that Powell’s actions have prevented the economy from soaring ... and declaring he’s out of patience with the man leading the nation’s central bank. ...the market would be stronger "if we had a different person in the Federal Reserve who wouldn’t have raised interest rates so much . . . ” "

@LuFins-Dad said in Biden travels to rally the Democrats: That’s the point. They are sending him to areas that are either in the bag or hopelessly out of reach. Places that he can’t really impact or hurt them. LOL. Yup. If I were a Democrat, I would not want President Biden coming to "support" me. Kind of like that English saying - "If I have a friend like you, I don't need an enemy"

@xenon Performance was actually fine. Basically mirrored what I already had with a single modem/router (the Xfinity "xfi"), so it wasn't worth the extra wifi points and hardware. I would recommend the system if you had a wider property or areas with real dead zones.

Sure would be nice for Presidential communications to go away from Twitter, IMO.

Ars Technica's take.

Everyone who has started more than 1000 IVs in their life raise your hand. OK, with that out of the way, some thoughts. @jon-nyc , the back of the hand is certainly not the best place to start an IV from a patient's perspective. It restricts motion, is easily dislodged, etc. But... It's frequently the easiest because the veins, though not the biggest, are usually the most visible. Most visible makes it much more likely that you'll have a first-pass successful stick. Most successful means most comfortable. If you need to stick someone 4-5 times, so that you can have a more comfortable site elsewhere misses the point. Always use local anesthetic for anything bigger than a 20g iv. The numbing makes it easier for the patient to tolerate you"rooting around" while trying to find a vein. The ideal location is the forearm - it's between two joints, and it's stable. However, unless the veins are really easy to see, good luck. If you can feel them, good luck too. Ideal place on the forearm is at the wrist, just this side of the thumb joint - about where you feel for a pulse. There's usually a vein there that's pretty easy to hit, even if you can't see it. You should be able to feel it. The problem with missing a vein in the forearm is that is some cases, you only have that one arm to work with, so if you blow a vein, putting an IV closer to the hand might cause the injection to leak out of the hole you made earlier, which is upstream from the hand. It all depends on what the needs are for the IV. For longer-term things, forearm is absolutely the best. But for a lot of surgery where it'll only be in for a day or so, use the hand, put it on an armboard. For really short stuff, where the IV will be in for an hour post-op, I got to the point where I just put them in the antecubital fossa (the elbow, where they draw blood). Patient wasn't going to move, if I did my job right, and afterward, they would be good to not bend the elbow for an hour. If you're feeling adventurous, put it in the internal jugular vein. I'm sure I have more thoughts - but I just can't think of 'em all at the moment.

@Jolly said in "With a pillow...": I think the Left is a bit nervous, thinking that their monopoly on messaging may be slipping away. That's why they've been uncomfortable with the internet from the git go. Funny how the left's most ardent supporters, the mainstream media, are the ones who took the biggest financial hit due to the internet. Entire lives and livelihoods were laid low at the feet of what we are all now led to believe is dangerous misinformation. Gee, I wonder who might be motivated to poison everybody against free and easy communication of ideas? Let's cherry pick that massive heap of information for the craziest bits, hold them high and giggle at them for everybody to see, so everybody can know how ridiculous the world is now that the "journalists" aren't in control of the ideas. Whatever will we do without the adults in the room?