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  • Doctors have a lot of ‘go away and leave me alone’ statements that are mostly meant to just get you out the door.

    Not just phrases, there’s a whole set of strategies.

    I’ve lost count of the times my kids have been dismissed with a GTFO bandage and sent on their way. About half the time we’ve been called back the day after, when the orthopedic attendings have taken a look at what the residents screwed up over night.





  • Every DRM related app afterwards: WARNING! This phone is running insecure software and is incompatible with this service.

    And before you tell me just to not use Netflix on my phone, I’m talking about a government app that lets me authenticate and without which I can’t read official messages or login to any government or banking service.

    So if I want to survive as an adult Dane, I pretty much have to figure out which company I would like to get sodomized by, and which is less of a clingy little bitch afterwards.







  • Disclaimer: I haven’t read the article, my rant is entirely based on the title.

    [a] Fork That Promises Better Features

    Have they released anything yet? Or are we at the project stage, where they’re yelling at their CLI confused about git?

    Promises are cheap, releases matter. I mean I could announce a project called Betterfox, promising to bring better features to a well-known browser. But in reality I’m by myself, overly ambitious, and going to leave the github page abandoned after the initial commit.



  • And it’s not on me to find the burden of truth for you. That’s a logical fallacy and a bad arguing tactic

    FFS I wasn’t trying to argue with you. Since you quoted some very specific numbers, I thought that you had done some recent research on the matter, and thus had an up to date knowledge of the current studies. In that case copy pasting said references from endnote should have taken 30 seconds and provided the community with a lot of valuable info.

    I wasn’t trying to get you to search for studies that would back up your claims, I thought you had them already.

    Why does asking for citations equal arguing? Where did I even hint that I thought you were wrong? I very much tried to make my intentions clear, yet everyone still think that I’m some smuck smart-ass trying to win an argument … an argument I wasn’t even part of to begin with.




  • I justified asking for studies. At no point did I claim to have spent hours searching pubmed. How hard is that to comprehend?

    Have you ever tried searching pubmed and vetting studies by reading abstracts? It’s not like using google and clicking on the first result.

    First off, searching for studies backing up some claims will always introduce confirmation bias. Secondly finding relevant studies, vetting the search results, by reading the abstracts, validating the scope of the study, deciphering the methods used, etc, will easily take the same number of hours as OP would spend in minutes to copy paste from their bibliography system.


  • Are you talking to me? I mean you replied to my comment, but saying that I’m referencing studies doesn’t make any sense. Well at least not to me, because I don’t believe that I claimed to have any studies for anything.

    If you meant to reply to me, please go read my first paragraph, and the maybe try it a second time. I actively tried to avoid getting labeled as dismissing the claims.


  • OP’s claims of “oh mer gerhd you dead soon” were so broad and so wild that they didn’t seem rooted in research. Asking for citations would be like asking your antivax aunt for her DIY “research”. But at least the claims should motivate people to seek healthcare, if they get knocked unconscious. Something that will save lives. So I left it at that.

    I asked for citations where I did, because it seemed like that commenter worked in the medical field, and actually could have the studies handy.

    If you read my request as casting doubt, then I invite you to read the first paragraph again. I specifically pointed out I just like scientific research, data, and evidence. I actually tried to avoid being seen as arguing against the claims.

    I can’t help that you (and a lot of other people, apparently) see asking for citations, as casting doubt. Expressing doubt wasn’t my intention, I was genuinely curious about the sources.

    And if being curious about science is wrong, then I’m going crawl up under a warm blanket, with a cup of chai and a nice peer reviewed metastudy, while staying wrong.

    Edits: grammar hard


  • I’m not saying that you’re wrong. You sound like you might know what you’re talking about. I just like publications and medical evidence. I trust that you won’t take it the wrong way.

    That is… Incorrect, there is about a 30% death rate within one year of brain trauma […]

    Source?

    […] but there is absolutely no data showing that someone is going to die within an hour of being knocked unconscious more often than not, […]

    Do you have a metastudy or something for that?

    especially if they are young

    That last sentence, do you have a source for the difference in outcome depending on the patient’s age?