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medgremlin

@ medgremlin @midwest.social

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  • Why don't smart watches use USB-C to recharge?

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  • I have the pixel watch 2, and waterproofing is very important to me when it comes to a smartwatch. I work in healthcare and have to wash my hands upwards of 30 times a day. If I had to take off my watch every time or gamble on a rubber flap adequately covering the charging port, it simply would not be worth the hassle.

  • Another Tea meme

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  • I've been noticing more of this recently and it doesn't encourage me to spend too much time here. There are so many posts that I don't even open the comment section because I know it's going to be a disaster and make me feel like I'm intruding on the boys' online clubhouse.

  • Another Tea meme

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  • The vast majority of rapists are never even convicted, let alone end up on the registry.

  • Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster

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  • It's been around for quite awhile. I use Turo more than I use regular car rental services because you actually get to choose what car you're getting and the prices are better.

  • Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster

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  • Use Turo. You can rent basic or fun/interesting cars directly from the owners.

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  • HR is "Heart Rate" and AF is "Atrial Fibrillation". "Heart Rate" is just how many times the heart beats in a minute. "Atrial Fibrillation" is an abnormal rhythm of the heart beat and the rate at which the heart beats in AFib can be normal or fast.

  • cancateat.food is update! You spoke, I listened! (1000+ plants, new features, and more!)

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  • Just a heads up: I tried to enter something on the request spreadsheet and it's locked as view-only. Maybe make it a link to a google form that exports to a spreadsheet?

  • DEMS PULL UPSET ON EPSTEIN FILES: Democrats dropped an 11th-hour motion at an unrelated hearing after noticing that most GOP members on the panel had publicly demanded the files be released.

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  • Compared to Trump? Caligula might actually be an upgrade.

  • Professor's got it right

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  • It is an actual, accredited medical school and we still take the same board exams. The subjects where the religiosity shows the most are the ethics classes, abortion, and LGBTQ+ healthcare. Otherwise, the most prominent manifestation was prayer at the start of lectures and exams.

  • Professor's got it right

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  • The Hippocratic oath doesn't cover this at all and actually explicitly forbids abortion and euthanasia. It's really quite antiquated which is why I wrote an oath for myself that I hold to.

    There's a lot of debate about the specific meanings of the text, but there are many Christian physicians that will latch onto those passages as an excuse to apply their own beliefs to patient care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

  • Professor's got it right

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  • As someone who attends a medical school attached to a religious university, I can tell you this is a mindset that exists quite commonly in the medical field. Many of these people get careers in the multitudes of Catholic hospitals that abuse religious freedom laws to deny certain kinds of healthcare and face absolutely no repercussions for their persistent bigotry.

  • Professor's got it right

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  • I wish this is how it was at my medical school. My med school is attached to a deeply religious university and some of our professors said some pretty wild shit in lectures. I was almost always the one to key up on the mic in recorded lectures to fight them on it.

    I'm sad to say there were a couple lectures that I was just too demoralized to fight back directly, but I did talk to my classmates to correct the record after those lectures.

  • Tim Walz says Trump ‘brings out the worst in people – and the worst in me’

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  • I think if the Dems ran on a platform of caring about people and trying to make their lives better instead of a platform of warmongering and performative "toughness", things would have turned out differently. I would have been much happier about my vote if they had been kinder and gentler by doing things like opposing Israel's genocide and working to actually improve people's lives in meaningful ways.

  • Tim Walz says Trump ‘brings out the worst in people – and the worst in me’

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  • As a Minnesotan, I'm proud to have him as our governor because he actually works in the best interest of all of his constituents, regardless of whether or not they voted for him. I believe that he is a genuinely good person which is a severely endangered species in politics.

    I am very disappointed in how the Harris/Walz campaign built its platform and conducted itself, but I don't think any of it was Tim's fault. If he had been the top of the ticket (with an actual primary), I think things would have turned out very differently. His genuine care for other humans was squashed and sidelined by the campaign in an astonishingly stupid strategy to try to look tough to appeal to centrists and republicans.

  • Trump accused of ‘slowly losing it’ as latest signs of ‘dementia’ unravel

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  • Some recent pictures showed pretty impressively swollen ankles (bilaterally, mind you) which really only happens with a handful of conditions, congestive heart failure being the most common one.

  • Four Eyes Principle

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  • I do have a tech background in addition to being a medical student and it really drives me bonkers that we're calling these overgrown algorithms "AI". The generative AI models I suppose are a little closer to earning the definition as they are black-box programs that develop themselves to a certain extent, but all of the reputable "AI" programs used in science and medicine are very carefully curated algorithms with specific rules and parameters that they follow.

  • Four Eyes Principle

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  • The discriminative AI's are just really complex algorithms, and to my understanding, are not complete black-boxes. As someone who has a lot of medical problems I receive care for as well as being someone who will be a physician in about 10 months, I refuse to trust any black-box programming with my health or anyone else's.

    Right now, the only legitimate use generative AI has in medicine is as a note-taker to ease the burden of documentation on providers. Their work is easily checked and corrected, and if your note-taking robot develops weird biases, you can delete it and start over. I don't trust non-human things to actually make decisions.

  • Four Eyes Principle

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  • They don't use the generative models for this. The AI's that do this kind of work are trained on carefully curated data and have a very narrow scope that they are good at.

  • Four Eyes Principle

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  • The important thing to know here is that those AI were trained by very experienced radiologists who are physicians that specialize in reading imaging. The AI's wouldn't have this capability if the humans didn't train them.

    Also, the imaging that AI performs well with is fairly specific, and there are many kinds of imaging techniques and diagnostic applications that the AI is still very bad at.

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

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  • The doctors that only ever studied medicine and nothing else have a tendency to be impressively stupid in anything that isn't their direct specialty.