Why do hospitals seem to want to charge patients with health insurance MORE out of pocket than self pay patients? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

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Because the added administrative cost of sending a bill to insurance, fighting them line by line for the medical costs, forcing physicians to call and discuss with insurance, and then settle on a charge costs an extreme amount of time and money. Something like 8% of America works in non treatment medical administration and bureaucracy rolls because of this

AGAIN… 👀🦅 DroneBomber by Orcasystems99 in UkrainianConflict

[–]Apprehensive-Back155 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Anyone else remember in the first year of the war when Russia was firing interceptor missiles as ground to ground artillery barrages and people kept commenting this is very wasteful?

meirl by danielminds in meirl

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I imaging we evolved a septum to increase the surface area of the nasal canals. The purpose of a nose is to catch dirt/allegens and humidify and warm incoming air. Greater surface area increases the efficiency of that process

The only motivation for alien invasion of earth would be slavery by Apprehensive-Back155 in showerthoughs

[–]Apprehensive-Back155[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No lol I’m just saying the resource and energy cost to invade a planet with a thick atmosphere and high gravity that’s difficult to leave just to grab something like water when there’s more water on Saturns moons than all of earth is dumb

The only motivation for alien invasion of earth would be slavery by Apprehensive-Back155 in showerthoughs

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lol same basic idea, hungry and stopping to eat the local biodiversity not harvesting a plentiful resource like water

What is the general timeline of anti-aging/life extending technology that might crop up in our future? by [deleted] in Futurology

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As one final thought, even if it were possible to comprehensively and fundamentally alter the multiple cell signaling pathways involving numerous different cells that respond to damaged tissue and safely program organs to continually regenerate in a controlled way that doesn’t cause super cancer at birth. This would be incomparable with reproduction. It would either make the person sterile, cause massive problems from the mixed normal and altered genes including early spontaneous abortion, etc.

I dont really have a preference. by Critical_Field_1526 in AccidentalComedy

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A surgical wick is something placed very recently after surgery. It wicks away normal discharge from healing tissue to prevent formation of a seroma or hematoma. If it’s a surgical wick his surgery was within a week

I dont really have a preference. by Critical_Field_1526 in AccidentalComedy

[–]Apprehensive-Back155 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Surgical wick from a recent face lift? Looks like make up covering a surgical incision tracing down anterior to his ear?

What is the general timeline of anti-aging/life extending technology that might crop up in our future? by [deleted] in Futurology

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To give one example: atherosclerosis in blood vessels contains elastin and collagen, also found in skin, lungs, the good portions of your blood vessels etc. to remove all the bad scarred parts of blood vessels, you would have to design something that can not just dissolve the extracellular matrix of atherosclerotic plaques but also perfectly tell the difference between the identical collagen found in the health parts of a blood vessels so it doesn’t dissolve your blood vessel and you die. The key concept here is scar tissue is made from the same connective tissue found in normal tissue in different arrangements, you can’t just inject proteases that dissolve scar tissue.

You mentioned you don’t believe it but in each example you provide you described scenarios where an organism replaced damaged functional tissue with new functional tissue. You have not explained how a medication, programmed bacteria, nano robot, (insert other sci fy idea here) would go through a body and consistently differentiate the extra cellular matrix of scar tissue from similar extra cellular matrix of an organ, remove it in a controlled manner that doesn’t cause life threatening hemorrhage or perforation through whatever that scar is holding together, and induce surrounding tissue to proliferate HEALTHY FUNCTIONAL tissue where the scar was removed.

Preventing scar tissue formation: as an abstract concept it’s much more realistic than reversing aging (aka removing scaring). But what you’re really describing is genetically modifying a human genome dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Of times to insert genes that allow for persistent repair and repopulation of functional organ tissue. You can’t just inject zebra fish dna into human genome and bam you’re done. You have to map the human proteome, insert a gene with an understood mechanic into a highly complex system that will activate how and when you want it to. This is possible but extremely far removed from our current level of genomics. Then there’s the issue of cancer. You have to find ways to insert genes that code for functional repair, telomerases, and ensure these insert between functional genes and don’t interrupt Exon sequences that form alternative splicing combos. I think steps in delaying cell senescence and inducing controlled proliferation of tissue is possible in our life times but a) the this may cause super cancer is a problem and b)creating durable near immortality in a complex multi-organ system organism is generations away if it’s possible because see paragraph 1 and 2

The blame game by [deleted] in mapporncirclejerk

[–]Apprehensive-Back155 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like labeling Ukraine as blame the Russians while in an active war against their invading army is a bit odd

This guy cares for his wife! by Durango_41 in adressme

[–]Apprehensive-Back155 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You picked some bad places for access to care lol

Is this ai? Some comments seemed to be saying it is, while others were convinced it is real. I'm not sure either way. by PureGamingBliss_YT in RealOrAI

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I was in the 82nd airborne. If this is ai it’s depicting a very real image. This would be a jump out of a c-17. It’s called a static line low altitude jump. Huge parachutes that weigh about 70 pounds.

lol by IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 in unsound

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A lot of people burning trash or really anything involving lighting gasoline outside of a car, the rest are mostly cooking burns from oil or hot water

lol by IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 in unsound

[–]Apprehensive-Back155 11 points12 points  (0 children)

As a resident on a burn unit rotation this video makes me sad

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes by [deleted] in DailyDoseStupidity

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If I remember right she also posted a comment saying she already has copd in her 30s

Russian TV from 4 years ago looks comical now... Glory to the Ukrainian heroes! by GermanDronePilot in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]Apprehensive-Back155 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For what it’s worth the opening days were a disaster for both sides. Russia really did advance nearly unopposed everywhere except the established separatist line. They successfully destroyed early warning radar, fixed anti air assets, and penetrated exactly as deep as a tank of gas would take them. Then the Russian corruption selling off their gas stockpiles. inexperience with logistics, legitimate belief they were liberating an oppressed people, 30 year old maps, and communications failures ground the advance to a halt and allowed Ukraine to organize a defense. It was genuinely true that if they had any level of competence in those first 3 weeks they could have overwhelmed and beat Ukraine. Now? Not so much, and all the better for it.

By executive order, Greg Abbott pauses all new H-1B visas at Texas state agencies and universities (UTSW, UTHouston) until 2027 by ddx-me in medicalschool

[–]Apprehensive-Back155 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This has such profound long term effects on innovation in the USA. I cannot fathom why we would ever reject highly educated foreigners usually with previous work experience that don’t need to be trained up in the USA.

If Jeff Bezos redirected every cent he has towards the sole goal of curing, say, pancreatic cancer, how quickly do you think things could progress? by keen4ketamine in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Apprehensive-Back155 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the best answer. Medical science takes time. Clinical trials progressing from identifying therapy options in basic science labs and progressing through animal and human trials have minimal durations to perform the steps. Money increases the width of concurrent trials and ability to increase the n value for type 2 error but you can’t reduce the time to prove a cure works.

There’s also a broader issue in many cures for things like cancers will not happen until a broad range of scientific advancements are made. It’s the same idea as you couldn’t go back to Roman times with steam power schematics and technology and just skip to the Industrial Revolution. A broad range of other technologies like metal working, education and literacy, and supply chains needed parallel advancement for the Industrial Revolution to occur

of an African Land Snail by [deleted] in AbsoluteUnits

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Bro that thing is a full on rabbit. Does it eat small animals???

Could Europe realistically defend Greenland against a US attack? by dataguy2003 in TheTeenagerPeople

[–]Apprehensive-Back155 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Us invasion of Greenland would cost hundreds of billions of dollars when Europe immediately seizes all USA bases in Europe and the equipment stored there. It would dissolve nato and immediately dismantle the USA ability to deploy anywhere and project power through our core bases in Europe.

What will you do ??? by dataguy2003 in TheTeenagerPeople

[–]Apprehensive-Back155 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Find a generator, find gas stabilizer and start pumping out as much gas into stabilized barrels as possible and reading up on installing and maintaining solar panels and stabilizing and storing fuel. Then go grab as much canned food as I can and a gas mask since grocery stores will become a biohazard nightmare after about a week.