medgremlin

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The bit right after that talks about how that was his MO for assaulting gay men and he kept a "profanity-laced journal" about his actions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

You do not have a good understanding of menstruation and gynecology if you think that's always the case. There are so many variations of irregular menstruation that trying to exclude data based on irregularities would be very difficult or get rid of a lot of legitimate irregular data.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Irregular menstrual cycles are very common and happen for a lot of different reasons. Also, there are different kinds of "regular" periods. Someone could be said to have regular periods even if they happen on shorter or longer cycles than the typical 28-30 days provided that it's a consistent pattern without significant deviation for that person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Write it down on paper or put it in a word document or excel spreadsheet (or FOSS equivalent if you don't have Office 365).

From a medical perspective, a handwritten journal with dates and notes about the amount/consistency of the flow as well as associated symptoms would be the most useful. Having irregular periods that last for 3 days with very heavy bleeding would have a very different diagnostic approach than irregular periods that last 3 to 5 days with normal bleeding and horrible cramps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

This has already started happening and the result is that there are growing swaths of red states where there is little to no access to OB/Gyn care. Women in places like Idaho are on waiting lists for OB/Gyns so long that their first prenatal appointment can be as late as 20 weeks into the pregnancy. The waiting list problem doesn't even account for the fact that women are having to drive as much as 200 miles to get to appointments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The article did say that he is currently suspended without pay, so at least they've got that bit straight in this case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I was very grateful that none of the cadavers we had at my medical school were John/Jane Does, and that we have a memorial service for the cadavers every year and invite the families to express gratitude.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I worked as a scribe and as an ER tech in a Level 1 peds hospital. I'm not even done with med school and I've already punched that card more times than I care to remember.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I have gotten pretty good at weaseling my way into in-groups despite being a queer socialist with strong opinions about human rights, unions, and civil rights. It took a lot of trial and error though.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I explained the concept of there being the two genders of "cis-male" and "political" to one of my professors at a religious university and he was actually interested to hear me out on it because he had never thought of it in that paradigm. I'm absolutely not saying that everyone can be convinced, but some people can be nudged in the right direction if you have a good rapport with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've played Judo, and I'm a licensed EMT, and I've worked in ERs, and I'm a third year medical student. I am quite confident in telling you that you are incorrect. Modern safety standards make it so that the seatbelt locks in a crash and limits your longitudinal inertia. Also, many dummies (and actual humans I have cared for) have "hit their head wrong" on the headrest due to their height, posture, or position, and they don't break their necks. Did their scalenes, paraspinal muscles, and sternocleidomastoids hurt like hell? Absolutely. But they didn't have broken necks.

Your body can compensate for a lot, but it was the introduction of headrests in cars that has been one of the biggest contributors to the drastic reduction in fatalities. The point of the headrest is the same as the seatbelt: to limit the range of motion your body goes through in a crash. Seatbelt signs and headrest concussions are real things that can cause some pretty significant problems, but those problems are easier to fix when the patient isn't dead or quadriplegic.

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Walz for VP (midwest.social)
 

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate, wagering that a former red-district congressman with a progressive streak can help her win over working-class voters in battleground states needed to beat Donald Trump in November.

“The entire country is about to see why their friends from Minnesota can’t stop bragging about Governor Walz,” Minnesota DFL Party Chair Ken Martin said in a statement. “By picking a servant leader born and raised in a small town who has dedicated his career to protecting freedoms and lifting up working families, Vice President Harris has chosen the perfect foil for [Trump running mate] JD Vance and his politics of resentment.”

 

A friend of mine is helping me with setting up a Linux-based homebrew security system set up. He's currently using Wyze cameras, but they are faulty and have ads on them, so I'd like to find something more open-source/closed system that I can control completely. Any recommendations or pointers in the right direction would be great.

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