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inveterate anarchist, EM resident, punk and D&D fiend
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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This cure for sickle cell anemia was made possible by NIH-funded research to turn the gene for fetal hemoglobin back on. It was done predominantly by NIH researchers, including intramural researchers on the NIH campus.

irp.nih.gov/catalyst/33/...
March 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The U.S. healthcare industry is worth $4.8 trillion and healthcare spending per person was about $14,423 in 2023. Tell me again how we can't have universal healthcare in the U.S.
December 15, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Relevant.
Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (2003) - Short Film
YouTube video by filmbase
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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the number of times polypharmacy goes unrecognized as a cause of “altered mental status” is astounding
November 23, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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Honey, stop what you're doing, new hyponatremia research just dropped!

What's it say?

It looks like slow correction is associated with worse outcomes, like death and length of stay!

Was it just a small study?

No, it was a meta-analysis of almost 12,000 patients!

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Correction Rates and Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized Adults With Severe Hyponatremia
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates the association of sodium correction rates with mortality among hospitalized adults with severe hyponatremia.
jamanetwork.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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Your body is a temple, my body is a starship with a warp core breach imminent, shields at 11%, breaches on decks 5, 9 and 11, emergency force fields in place, structural integrity down to 6 percent, impulse engines offline, emergency power only, can't take another hit like that; we are not the same.
November 17, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Aw jeez, not this again.

According to this consultant, hospitals now *lose* an average of $304,312 per physician per year.

🤦🏻‍♂️

Guess it's time for another thread on budgetary gerrymandering.
November 17, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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RFK Jr.’s only previous experience doing government public health work was in Samoa in 2019, and resulted in a measles outbreak that killed 83 people, including dozens of children.
November 14, 2024 at 11:10 PM