medgremlin @ medgremlin @midwest.social

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Part of what I was saying is that the fermentation barrels cannot be reused for other drugs. Also, with any biologically produced product in pharmaceuticals, they need to do extensive testing on each batch to ensure that there have not been any mutations or other contamination or production errors. The manufacturing of medicine is a highly regulated and monitored process that requires the manufacturer to meet a rather long list of criteria before the drug can be sold. Also, with bacterial populations, the larger the vat, the higher likelihood that a problematic mutation will occur and spread to a degree that would cause problems.

Normally, I'm all for getting out the torches and pitchforks for pharma companies, but there are some other considerations when it comes to penicillins. Due to the prevalence and severity of penicillin allergies, penicillin drugs basically have to be made in facilities dedicated to just that to avoid cross-contamination. If they used any of the same equipment (even packaging equipment) there would be too high a risk of causing allergic reactions via contamination of other medications, and there would be no way to tell which ones are contaminated.

The fix to this problem is to spread out the licensing and allow more companies to produce penicillins in appropriate facilities as opposed to leaving it in the hands of a single conglomerate.

I mean, I'll take a salad fork without much complaint.

I will use a little fork whenever possible for a variety of reasons with differing grades of logic behind them. I don't say anything, but I'm always a bit annoyed when I have to use a regular sized or big fork.

Aha! I knew someone else would go with the saffron gambit. Especially if you get to specify that it's really packed in there.

A social hobby that gets her out of the house might be the ticket here. Maybe look into your local community centers and whatnot to see if there's something like a couples dance class that you could do together or yoga classes. Having ways to socialize that are not food-centric goes a long ways towards building better habits.

I grew up in a mostly (75% or so) Hispanic neighborhood and I don't think I've ever heard the word "gringo" in a non-derogatory tone of voice or context. And perhaps sympathy was not the correct word to have used there. I think "empathy" might better convey what I meant as it is my assumption that you are trying to convince people to see the situation from your point of view. Asking someone to empathize and/or agree with your viewpoint does take some diplomacy in many cases, and demanding evidence that is likely not in a language the commenter speaks is not going to be very helpful. While Mexico is an important country with a large population and substantial global economic impact, any news about Mexico that reaches the US in English is unlikely to present the internal politics of the country in a nuanced or detailed way.

That is something that has the possibility of being immensely helpful, provided the cooperation of a substantial portion of the Indian population and the entirety of the Indian government. I truly wish there was something that could be done about from where I stand, but the problem is extremely ingrained and, in some ways, endemic to that culture.

I'm very disappointed that this person deleted all of their comments because I am quite curious to know what bizarre arguments they were trying to make based on your responses.

I took a look at your previous comments and noticed that you seemed to largely be arguing about points of opinion rather than fact. Also, my Spanish isn't great, but referring to people you disagree with as "gringos" and complaining about political discussions is not going to win you a whole lot of sympathy for your position.

Sometimes working on one's mental health can go a long way towards improving aspects of physical health like weight issues. I'm almost positive that there will be a lot of places with the same problems, but there might be mental health/meditation retreats in safer areas. I'm pretty sure there's at least a few that will take their patrons out to the Redwood forests in California and plop them down in the nice environment with some solitude for self-contemplation. (I attended such a thing a decade and a half ago, but I don't know if it's still there.)

While working in the ER I've seen some impressive ingestions, both intentional and unintentional. I can guarantee that if he survives, it ain't gonna be a fun time. Off the top of my head, I think he'd be getting Narcan, Amiodarone, Flumazenil, cardiovascular and respiratory support, and probably hemodialysis. If he doesn't die from the cocktail, the hospital bill might get him.

Recommended reading: https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/

As a medical student that gets nonsense like this as question stems on exams: "confused and horrified screaming"

Yeah, that's a really good point.

If it was actually anthrax, it has an incubation period of 1 to 3 days and a prodromal phase that can last anywhere from 1 to 6 days. Their exposure would have been inhalation which does carry the worst forms of the illness and the worst prognosis, but they'd have at least a couple days before symptoms start showing up and there are antitoxin and immunoglobulin treatments available. There's not really a post-exposure prophylaxis, per se, and giving someone the treatments unnecessarily would be incredibly expensive.

My money would be on Truth Social or a QAnon/Maga facebook group.

Change it to Alice Paul and we might have something going there. (But housing, job training, and education are some of the most needed things in low-income communities.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Paul (Of note, Alice Paul was against abortion as were many of the suffragettes as they viewed it as a form of exploitation. However, her legacy as a leader in the women's rights movement and in nonviolent protest are very important to world history as a whole. There is some debate about this, but it has been claimed that Ghandi kept correspondence with her and learned from her example of nonviolent protest.)

That's good to hear. I always like seeing local folks doing well in their own communities more than any chain.

They could fund the community college in perpetuity if they auctioned off all his gaudy crap to his cult.