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jfichte t1_j20erri wrote
Reply to comment by wishingtoheal in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD
Exactly, medicare funding needs to increase and be updated accordingly to allow for more residents, which would on turn increase the number of medical students, and ultimately, trained doctors.
UEMcGill t1_j20e69q wrote
Reply to comment by ninja1327 in Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology by AutoModerator
Given a few base assumptions, and using PV=nRT the most likely scenario is minor to major bends, maybe ruptured ear drums and things from rapid pressure drop.
The subject chamber couldn't develop a full vacuum, but a ratio of chamber to plunger volume. The volume would change the temp would drop a little and the pressure would drop a lot. Reverse it and pressure and temp go up. But if the pressure drop was high enough the nitrogen in solution in ylur blood would come out but the pressure rise again wouldn't be enough to make go back in solution.
The bends are painful and starts in places like the joints but can mean death if severe enough.
Boring_Vanilla4024 t1_j20dt9d wrote
Reply to comment by thegypsyqueen in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD
How so? What is your level of training?
coilycat t1_j20dsqz wrote
Reply to comment by zebediah49 in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD
Gotcha, thanks!
thegypsyqueen t1_j20dqkq wrote
Reply to comment by Boring_Vanilla4024 in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD
You sound like an out of touch attending. I hope you have little intersection with medical education.
thegypsyqueen t1_j20dllp wrote
Reply to comment by Cyclops_is_Right in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD
There is no true comparison study of these strategies and for every study looking and finding handoff errors there is another showing long shift lengths also increase errors. We very much do not know which one is “better” but physicians would argue that it’s not humane to accept a system that forces them to work 24, 36, or more hours in a row. We are already working an incredible amount of hours in a week. My point is, this is not a forgone conclusion and the biggest study looking at your argument of increased hours being superior for reduction of errors was a biased study conducted by a group of resident directors.
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Mert_Burphy t1_j20d4v0 wrote
Reply to comment by thedavecan in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD
Just curious what happens if you get a case of the need to shits suddenly. I get why you can't leave an anethetized patient alone even for 30 seconds but still..
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Reply to comment by Frozen_Watcher in What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation? by vesuvisian
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Octavus t1_j20c6b6 wrote
Reply to comment by thephoton in What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation? by vesuvisian
There isn't believed to be anyone left in the Americas or Tasmania who does not have any European ancestry from the last 500 years.
Going the other direction Paleo Eskimo bridged the gap for a while between the Americas and Asia. Their culture spanned from Russia through Alaska into Greenland.
There was a continuous but some gene flow between Australia and South East Asia. Any other isolated groups of humans have only been isolated for a few hundred years.
Chezni19 t1_j20c2xd wrote
Reply to Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology by AutoModerator
Linguistics: What do scientists think of SRS (spaced repetition software, see link) techniques for vocabulary retention, e.g. ANKI
Also is there an even better way?
SereneDreams03 t1_j20bhv9 wrote
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In terms of linguistic classification, when do two different dialects of the same language diverge into two entirely different languages?
przyssawka t1_j20bd9t wrote
Reply to comment by Larrygiggles in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD
Polyphasic as a necessity more like. Jokes aside not really, the work is structured in a way that wouldn’t allow for the polyphasic sleep cycle outside of on-calls (and even then ER can wake you up at any moment). Not to mention I have yet to see research that proves that it’s a valid and sustainable alternative to regular cycle.
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Reply to comment by MEMENARDO_DANK_VINCI in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD
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Larrygiggles t1_j20aw82 wrote
Reply to comment by przyssawka in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD
Does stuff like polyphasic sleep ever come up as a possibility?
MEMENARDO_DANK_VINCI t1_j20alqz wrote
Reply to comment by Boring_Vanilla4024 in How do shifts work on really long medical operations? by TerjiD
There is a Socrates quote about the younger generation you should look up, just a suggestion
robot_tron t1_j20al5q wrote
Reply to comment by Akagiyama in Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology by AutoModerator
English and German share a significant percentage of cognates, and going back and forth between those is generally much easier than pairing English with other languages. Same situation between the romance languages.
thephoton t1_j20ak83 wrote
Reply to comment by Octavus in What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation? by vesuvisian
> At some point 7,300 to 5,300 years ago if someone had a living descendant, then all of humanity is their descendant.
Weren't, for example, Native Americans, isolated from Europe for more than 7,300 years?
So if you consider someone living in the Andes with pure Native American ancestry, how are they descended from Cheddar Man?
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ninja1327 t1_j209x44 wrote
Reply to comment by SpellingIsAhful in Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology by AutoModerator
Let's say the scenario is this:
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When fully pushed down, there is still room for a human to stand/sit so no way the person would get squashed.
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No part is stuck and this is a normal environment/medium (a lab in a building so to speak)
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What happens to the human body when it's pressed down and when it is pulled up? I know it has to do with negative/positive pressure but unsure what would realistically happen
Hot_Stick_1040 t1_j209ih9 wrote
Not surgery related but in our icu our intensivists shifts are literally a week long. They are on site for as long as they need to be during the day (07:00-19:00 but as late as 23:00 some days) rounding /doing procedures /meeting with family /admitting new patients /consults /code team then they go home when all of that is done, but come back for any problems /crises and are on call the entire time they are not on site. We had a patient ask his long the doctors shift was and when we told her, her eyes got really large lol. It’s unfortunate but it’s the model that is the least taxing.
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SpellingIsAhful t1_j208x5e wrote
Reply to comment by ninja1327 in Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology by AutoModerator
Fully depends on what medium they're in and if a part of you is stuck. Generally it wouldn't be ripped apart though, you would be squished when the plunger pushed down.
ample_mammal t1_j20feek wrote
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Which celestial body that we know of would most likely harbor life/be capable of harboring life?