Oh! I like that!Originally Posted by Dr_Thanatos
Very eloquent.
Originally yours?
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Oh! I like that!
Very eloquent.
Originally yours?
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..and after some 30 years of postgrad and practice I found out I was dyslexic.
Doesn't read posts longer than two paragraphs.
Well played!!!
Looks like California is starting some larger scale antibody tests. These should be interesting to follow.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7new...ornia/6091220/To investigate that idea, researchers are testing people for antibodies that indicate a previously undiagnosed infection that was defeated by the body's immune system.
The Stanford researchers tested 3,200 volunteers at three testing sites in the Bay Area. They are expected to publish the conclusions of their study in several weeks.
The state had a significant amount of travel to and from China last year - some 8,000 Chinese visitors a day at California's airports. Wuhan, China is considered the origin point of the novel coronavirus. It first came to public attention there in December 2019, but researchers are looking at whether it had been around much earlier than that.
"Something is going on that we haven't quite found out yet," Hanson said. "When you calculate as well there were people on direct flights, from San Francisco and LAX to Wuhan, ground zero of the outbreak, you'd be naive not to think the California population wasn't exposed."
CN is not taking steps to control shit. They have always sent out fakes and will continue to do so. Exporters will get their permits and fake testing will be the norm. Always has been and always will be. Its China. They dont give a shit if their own people die, so you think they are going to give a hoot if you die?
If you're buying critical parts from them the only way to deal is to have stringent incoming QC ignoring the crap paperwork they send you. PPE are critical components IMO. China/India/Africa or whatever other slave haven you can cope with are the places for cheap trinkets, not life saving equipment or other important items. Its as simple as that and until the world gets that through their hard heads we will continue to have to deal with tainted food, meds, .....
Not implying that you are one who doesn't get that by the way.
I agree, broadly. From toxic paint to contaminated dog food, it's up to the person/company that puts their name on the label to make sure the product they're contracting for is produced in the way they expect. Beware of fakes. We've seen dozens of CE and FDA certificates the past few weeks where the ink is barely dry. Easy enough to look that stuff up online. It's amazing that these sellers even try to pass that shit off as legit, it's so easy to look up.
I worked in the electronics business back when outsourcing was a new thing. Moved a lot of production to Japan, Taiwan, China. When big American companies hammer on low-cost-country factories for every penny, then leave, you get a lot of creative cost cutting. I got tired of telling my bosses that I refused to pursue tiny cost reductions because it would cost us more in quality than it would save us in spend.
As for PPE.... You have to know where it's coming from. I had a chance to pick up 1500 3M N95 masks yesterday. When I asked for documents, I received copies of airway bills showing the product had been returned from France. Actually, the product boxes were printed in French with NASCAR logo (legit). The guy selling was a distributor in a completely different business. I think these were legit products, but with their gray market history, way too much risk. Factory-direct (from a vetted factory) or authorized distributors only.
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
Yeah. Sometimes I'm smarter than I look.
Feel free to steal it, no attribution necessary.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52196815
Pretty brutal NYC EMT diary here. Makes me wonder if we'll ever find out what the true CFR is.
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It really makes me worry for rural parts of the country. A lot of people will die in their homes and be left there for days.
Luckily I've been really aggressive about taking advantage of the longitudinal preceptorship program here, so I've been in either the ER or the OR at least a couple times a month since starting PhD. Thanks to the ER experience I have a decent grasp on how to do a quick and focused H&P and SOAP note for an undifferentiated "not sick" patient. Obviously the "P" in SOAP note will be a challenge as "pending surgery recs" probably won't be acceptable for inpatient medicine... but I feel very comfortable in the clinic. Returning to MS3 will be hard, but I am really looking forward to it
Agreed. Our school of medicine is designing an outrageously ridiculous new curriculum that fortunately I will not be subjected to if I graduate on time. Here is a little infographic that explains it quite nicely. It is mindblowingly stupid.
The part that I am the most upset with is the transition to all LICs instead of traditional clerkships. Essentially, instead of rotating with depts/divs, you are assigned a site and a preceptor and are given individual patients to follow all across the hospital over the length of their stay and at their f/u appts. It blows me away that anyone thinks this would be a good idea. The saddest thing is that I sit on our curriculum steering committee and have been utterly powerless to do anything about this despite raising plenty of objection.
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