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Sammystorm1 t1_j1zzavo wrote

Reply to How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD

36 hour surgeries don’t really happen. In the US the other staff is often given breaks and lunch’s as required by law. A different staff member replaces them for 15-30 minutes. The surgeon does not change out. So an 8 hour surgery it will be the same guy or gal the entire time.

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Kratzkopf t1_j1zypsk wrote

Reply to Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology by AutoModerator

In the Sherlock Holmes books numbers are often in the form of e.g. "two-and-twenty" instead of the currently usual form of "twenty-two". To me this change to start with the more significant number makes sense. But what led to this change in numbering and when did it take place? Did it follow a longer debate? Was there a transition period? Could a similar transition happen to other languages like german, where at the moment a "two-and-twenty"-style numbering is in place?

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RandomUser0666 t1_j1zyd34 wrote

Reply to comment by FowlOnTheHill in Does cooking eggs and red onions create a chemical reaction? by womp-the-womper

If you like raw onion that's fine. Half cooked, limp, soggy, greasy onion is just the worst though and I think that's what OP ended up with. Personally, what you described sounds delicious to me but I'm assuming the egg is already partially scrambled when the raw ingredients are added? kinda like an Indian frittata?

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wishingtoheal t1_j1zx4pg wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD

This reads like someone who isn’t familiar with how physicians are trained.
The number of residency slots is effectively stipulated by the Medicare budget. There are more and more medical school grads who go unmatched to postgraduate training because there simply aren’t enough spots.

The answer to our healthcare woes is not to relax medical school standards and physician licensing standards.

The increasing degree burden you’re speaking of has nothing to do with physicians. Non physician provider education has been increasingly bloated by degree inflation for the sake of monetary gain on the part of the educational system. An NP, for example, used to require many years of bedside nursing followed by a masters degree. Now, you have for profit universities churning out new grad nurses who have gone straight from undergrad into all online “doctoral” NP program that allows them to practice unsupervised in some states, while having fewer than 500 clinical hours.

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thedavecan t1_j1zvvfe wrote

Reply to comment by ryanveilleux1 in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD

I'm a CRNA in a mid sized regional medical center. We only trade out up to a certain point. After 8pm if I'm on call I'm the only anesthesia provider in the OR (we have one dedicated to OB but it has to be an all hands on deck emergency to ask them to come down) and so there's no bathroom breaks after that time. Surgeons, scrubs, and circulators can all scrub out and go pee but anesthesia can't leave the patient unattended, ever. Every facility is different and it's super rare for us to do cases longer than 8-9 hrs here but the potential is always there when you work in the OR.

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OakBayIsANecropolis t1_j1zs9cg wrote

Reply to comment by Khashab29 in Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology by AutoModerator

Sapiens, by historian Yuval Noah Harari, plays pretty fast and loose with the science. The Dawn of Everything by anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow has a similar vibe with better references - they still make a lot of speculations, but they're explicit about when they're doing so.

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