medgremlin @ medgremlin @lemmy.sdf.org

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Yeah, I worked in pediatric emergency medicine for a while and it's really not the fault of literal children that they get hurt by these kinds of things.

I plan on working in emergency medicine after med school, and I feel like I'm going to have to get a dummy/burner phone to put TikTok (or its future equivalent) on to keep up with what trends and memes will be coming through the ER.

This is the one I have and my only problems with it are that it's a little too big to fit into a smaller purse or something, and it's a little heavy. I can charge my phone and small tablet to full close to 20 times before it needs to be recharged, and it holds its charge just about perfectly between uses.

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Early 30s woman, married without children, and in grad school.

It's only cold for about one third to one half of the year, and it's nothing a decent furnace and a good coat can't handle.

It's probably inadvisable. There's enough possible bacterial or viral GI diseases that can get picked up that way that it's just not worth the risk.

Holy buckets this is bullshit. I used to really like Trader Joe's; their products are pretty high quality for not outrageous prices...but I can't stand anti-union bullshit like this. I guess I need to really restrict my grocery shopping to pretty much just Aldi and Costco in terms of companies that seem to treat their employees reasonably well.

The "no interest accrued" bit is huge for the medical community. Newly graduated doctors with hundreds of thousands in loans were getting absolutely ruined by runaway interest while they were in residency on income driven repayment plans. Now, combine the SAVE plan with PSLF, and medical school is suddenly a lot more viable as an endeavor.

There's some conflicting stuff on the things I was reading, but it seems like the safest option would be flea treating the mother and using a flea comb on the babies. However, I would highly recommend contacting a veterinarian and getting their advice first if you can.

It depends on why they don't pay attention to politics. Personally, I kind of have to go ostrich-mode and bury my head in the sand when school gets stressful because I just don't have the mental bandwidth to deal with both. I'm not going to judge someone too harshly for protecting their mental health from the absolute shitshow that is the American political landscape.

PS: This is not to say that any degree of modern conservatism is okay. Bigots can go fuck themselves and I'd be out punching Nazis and being a medic at protests if it didn't jeopardize my future so significantly. (Felony convictions make it really hard to get a medical license and I have to pay off my student loans somehow. Besides, I'll be in a much better position to make a meaningful difference as a physician than as a heavily indebted student or EMT.)

With a lovely red wine reduction glaze made from the obscenely expensive wine they probably have stashed on their yachts and a side of lobbyist paté on toast.

English muffins are good and you can put a variety of different toppings on them. I'm partial to peanut butter and jelly.

I'm a medical student and I'm here to tell you that no amount of medicine, physicians, nor technology will save a patient if they don't have the personal strength and fortitude to survive cancer treatment. Chemo is literally poison that is carefully dosed out so that it hopefully kills the tumor before it kills the patient. People who are strong enough, mentally, emotionally, and physically, to survive cancer treatment are incredible and claiming otherwise is ignorant and disrespectful.

It's a very different answer from the others here, but Psychonauts 2 is gorgeous. The animation is incredible and the visual design is totally unique.

Here's a video that talks about some of the animation and cinematography in Psychonauts 2: https://youtu.be/dnbb5pcaSr4

I second this. AI does not have the true depth of understanding or the heuristic experience that a physician does, and it doesn't know what questions to ask in the first place. There are a number of conditions that can only be caught and diagnosed if the correct questions are asked, and you can't rely on just feeding a machine all the symptoms you have because some of them may not be related to the problem at hand. Actually going to a physician and getting a physical exam and any lab work they might order is immensely valuable for making an accurate diagnosis.

See, this is why we need to divert over-bloated policing budgets to proper civil servants.

Enforce zoning regulations and apply rental laws or hotel regulations to Air BnBs. If you make them actually follow the rules, it suddenly becomes vastly less profitable.

I highly recommend the six part mini series Robert Evans did called "Behind the Police" as a subset of his "Behind the Bastards" podcast.

On a related note, I would be very curious to see how something like ChatGPT trained exclusively on works in the public domain would turn out. It would likely have a very different diction and style based on the older source material, but I wonder what other differences there would be.

The best teachers are the ones that are super excited to share things.