Ok that one took me a second. Well played
Chetzemoka
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Covid infection causes myocarditis 7 times more often than the vaccine:
Vaccines don't cause autism. That link was proposed by one single doctor in the UK who was a grifter trying to make money so he made the whole thing up:
https://youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc?si=38o_z87zNqnnJqcc
Please stop.
Not true really. Wayfair is just a drop shipping company, in a similar vein as Amazon. Except with actual customer service. You can search specifically for solid wood furniture, so you don't end up with cheap MDF toy furniture, their reviews are accurate and not gamed, and their search has robust filtering so you can drill down and find exactly what you want. I buy a lot of shit from Wayfair that is definitely better quality than Ikea.
That doesn't mean their CEO isn't a labor abusing bag of dicks. I still think they should unionize.
I'm a nurse on a cardiac critical care unit. Let me provide some insight here.
There's a reason I joke to my patients that reading a telemetry monitor is a little bit like reading tea leaves. It's WAY less precise than members of the general public assume.
First though, there seems to be a little confusion in the comments on exactly what kind of monitoring we're talking about. This is specifically continuous monitoring of heart rhythms via cardiac electrical activity. Telemetry monitoring does provide a heart rate, but these technicians are not also monitoring other vitals like blood pressure, temperature, and oxygen saturation. Outside of a critical care unit, we don't leave patients continuously hooked up to those things because it's unnecessary and it's annoying and inconvenient for the patient.
So this is specifically about technicians who are not physically near a patient noticing changes in a patient's heart rhythm.
Which brings me to my dear friend: MOTION ARTIFACT
Pop quiz - what is this heart rhythm?
Answer: It's not. This is what we in the industry like to refer to as "a buncha bullshit." THIS is a patient who is moving - eating lunch, talking on the phone, etc. Or a patient where one of the heart monitor stickers fell off their chest. Or a really skinny patient without enough subcutaneous tissue to properly conduct the electrical signals from their heart to the telemetry stickers.
This is why - not even exaggerating - around 90% of the times that there's a scary alarm on the central monitor on our unit, you'll hear it quickly followed by one of us loudly proclaiming, "Trash wave!" "It's nothing!" "Lies again! They're fine."
And this happens ALL DAY on a legit critical care unit.
You can't just read and react to what's happening on these monitors. You have to be able to correlate it to what's happening with the real, actual human being in the bed.
Now imagine this process with EIGHTY monitors on people you can't even see. Your whole day would be nothing but ignoring alarms and probably hyperfocusing on a handful of people you knew were having legitimate problems.
Hospitals using this system are relying on one of the truisms I've developed over the course of my career: Most of the time people don't die. Most of the time people are pretty shockingly resilient and most of the time you get a lot of warning when things are starting to turn south. Most of the time, people don't just up and die. Until that one person who does just that.
The simple fact is that no matter how much an American corporation might wish it were true, you will never be able to automate and replace the most basic and most expensive part of healthcare: One human being directly looking at another to make sure they're ok.
In real life, a restaurant can and will kick you out and ban you from the premises for wearing a swastika and saying you think minorities don't deserve to live.
Ergo, being kicked off a company's privately owned server for hate speech is EXACTLY the same amount of freedom they would have in real life.
Yeah isn't this the part of the movie where he gets recruited from jail by James Bond or something? That's literally a plot point in at least one Mission Impossible movie, isn't it? Lol
My hospital bought us pizza. Yesterday. On my day off.
"Self-medication" is a synonym for maladjusted coping mechanisms. It's a euphemism. They used the term correctly.
I'm a nurse in a hospital. We absolutely do NOT consider uninsured people seeking healthcare to be theft.
Would we prefer that people have Medicaid and seek primary care services elsewhere? Of course. So one of the things we do when people come in is get them signed up. Should that be our responsibility? Of course not. But here we are.
Oh, ya. I could work like that, but I need health insurance, sadly.
I'm curious how many hours you work in one day? I work three 12hr shifts. It's still better than working that M-F 9-5 nonsense
Adjacent? I detox an awful lot of people who use opioids on the critical care hospital unit I work. I've had people come in with pneumonia, hypothermia, standard issue bacteremia and endocarditis. The opioid epidemic is definitely health related and a public health crisis.