ForestOrca
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181·7 months agoBetteridge’s law of headlines: No.
ELI5, please?
Within reach on my desk, Unisonic LC-384 Dual Power Solar and Battery Backup Pocket Calculator - I’ve not owned it the whole time, so I looked around and see it was produced on or around 1982. It works just fine.
It has a minimal listing in the Calcuseum (http://www.calcuseum.com/SCRAPBOOK/BONUS/32532/1.htm)
Only if the fire has been continuously running. Otherwise you started a new fire.
4·8 months agoand this was likely not just the Swiss. Worldwide a lot of doctors prescribed anti-bacterial anti-biotics for a viral infection. It’s a problem. Overuse of antibiotics by medical professionals, and especially in industrial livestock businesses drives the process of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
2·9 months agoCool, so a real Doctor, then. ;-) I had a thing for getting letters after my name, and reached a certain goal, then gave up on the ego.
I’m glad you were able to get the care you needed.
You mean they got a Ph.D.? ;-)
I was searching for humorous podcasts over the weekend, and found Say More with Dr.? Sheila - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/say-more-with-dr-sheila/id1707936869 - I hope you enjoy it.
I could start spending my time bashing various professions, I suppose, but I’ve got better things to do. However, since you are obviously interesting in people being ripped off, injured or killed here’s this, the first article that came up on search from PubMed:
Our prescription drugs kill us in large numbers
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25355584/Abstract
Our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States and Europe. Around half of those who die have taken their drugs correctly; the other half die because of errors, such as too high a dose or use of a drug despite contraindications. Our drug agencies are not particularly helpful, as they rely on fake fixes, which are a long list of warnings, precautions, and contraindications for each drug, although they know that no doctor can possibly master all of these. Major reasons for the many drug deaths are impotent drug regulation, widespread crime that includes corruption of the scientific evidence about drugs and bribery of doctors, and lies in drug marketing, which is as harmful as tobacco marketing and, therefore, should be banned. We should take far fewer drugs, and patients should carefully study the package inserts of the drugs their doctors prescribe for them and independent information sources about drugs such as Cochrane reviews, which will make it easier for them to say “no thanks”.
It is a free article, so you can read the whole thing, if you wish to be better informed.
The second one is from US News and World Report:
Death by Prescription
https://health.usnews.com/health-news/patient-advice/articles/2016-09-27/the-danger-in-taking-prescribed-medicationsEnjoy.
They are soooo delicious! Whenever I’m in the PacNW I try to find some to eat. Tho’ it seems like the locals just treat them like a nuisance.
YSK that Medical Doctors are also not Chiropractors. This is why the letters after their names are different. M.D. means Medical Doctor, and D.C. means Doctor of Chiropractic. The major differences in their educations being Surgery, and Drugs for the MDs, and Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Manual Therapy are studied more by DCs. Depending on licensure laws both can order imaging, laboratory testing, and prescribe massage or physical therapy. Also the MD will only have 3-7 minutes to spend with you, and the DC will have much more time to do intake, history, therapy, and to explain what is going on with you and what can be done to improve your situation. Here’s a fun fact for ya, some of the injuries attributed to joint manipulation, and this is well documented, were from barbers, kung fu teachers, and yes, MDs and PTs who went to a weekend course in manipulation, instead of the numerous semesters of learning that a DC will have as part of their normal coursework.
@NataliePortland, what’s your issue? Why do you care so much about this particular topic?
Let’s not forget sink holes. :-D
I’m in a sitting position, one foot beyond my desk, with my feet about 10 inches off the ground, and my butt is about 16 inches off the ground. I fall on my ass comedically, amidst loud cursing.
I’ve been trying the subtle ‘send friends cool posts from the fediverse’, as I wasn’t having much luck explaining what the fediverse is/ why we should leave the corporate social media behind.
I left reddit, and pretty much stay away from it. I don’t want to give advertising revenue to reddit. And so I suggest federating with reddit is not a good idea. As you say, “it’s over there, if we need/want it”, to paraphrase.
plus ally’s, plus docs that work with ME/CFS…
I started up a few magazines, to replace the subreddits, but don’t have the time to really promote them. And I would like more on the fediverse side, so people can actually migrate away from corporate social media.
What CFS/ME and Longcovid magazines would you like to see grow?
These are my magazine projects:
@santafe
@photobiomodulation
WAIT A MINUTE!!! You mean Douglas Adams was actually an LLM?