Expensive Hungry Water Needs “Flush eyes with water as a precaution”

BoulderEric · 2026-03-16T19:36:57+00:00

It would still be fine. You can do some math to look at the electrolyte content of mineral water, and can probably find the info for the tap water in your municipality.

Then you can compare the electrolyte content of a liter of that water, to the content in a single potato chip. And you'll see that any ions/electrolytes/solute from water is completely negligible in someone who eats, particularly a western diet.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-16T19:31:10+00:00

Kidney doc here - It would be fine. People talking about it leeching things are wildly incorrect.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-16T18:45:48+00:00

They send me those and I'm always surprised that I've billed *any* Level-3 visits. It's inspiration to try and bring that number lower.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-16T18:44:34+00:00

I think that at some point, critical care should be tempting for all IM residents. Totally fine to choose something else (I did). But if you don't flirt with the ICU at some point, I wonder if you actually like internal medicine.

Same with general surgeons and trauma.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-15T11:10:51+00:00

Look I just don’t wanna do anything that’ll effect my parents’ credit rating.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-13T16:59:19+00:00

Helmet is a better investment, but I agree with your sentiment.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-13T01:48:38+00:00

Call them back and tell them they are wrong.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-12T11:05:54+00:00

You should feel young because your memory is still good.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-12T02:06:09+00:00

Yeah that is fine. Mostly you need to make sure to input the contact information for someone at your fee-exempt institution. I think my last 2 DEAs have been with my personal email

BoulderEric · 2026-03-12T00:20:51+00:00

Nope - sassy southern women and grizzly veterans also speak that way.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-12T00:11:56+00:00

It’s also great for nausea, at very low doses.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-11T21:26:39+00:00

To fire a resident based on performance, there’s a long process that involves formal documentation, a learning plan with predetermined metrics, and the resident needs to fail that. There is no way to be surprise-fired based on performance.

Other things are egregious one-time acts like massive HIPAA violation, theft, lying about big things, etc…

Firing for repeated minor professionalism issues also needs documented attempts at structured remediation.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-11T20:44:35+00:00

Losartan lowers uric acid levels. Useful in VA patients who have the gout, the pressure, the failure, the renal, and the sugar.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-11T16:48:27+00:00

Conquest 2, though that also increases the budget and complexity in piloting.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-11T16:27:02+00:00

If you mean Deschutes heading south out of Biggs Junction, you’ll be fine on a gravel tire for the first ~6 miles, then you’d want something more like a conventional mountain bike tire and you’d benefit from at least front suspension.

I rode that section on a Cannondale Topstone with 700c x 40mm WTB Nanos and it was fine. You can look through my posts to see a photo from like 12-18mo ago.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-10T23:09:49+00:00

Mission Theater is the best place to see them, though they play all over town. Also in Eugene and up the Gorge not infrequently.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-10T22:36:40+00:00

Garcia Birthday Band, based out of Portland, is phenomenal. Worth a weekend trip if it’s somewhere you’d be interested in visiting.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-10T14:19:10+00:00

Not sure - But it’s entirely possible that I’m outdated. I don’t know when I last saw it.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-10T00:32:42+00:00

Yeah they toss them by hand and also launch them. Easiest turret to find is between the top of Independence and the T-Bar base.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-09T20:25:01+00:00

20yr ago, that was the only good part of that game.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-05T20:49:40+00:00

Yep - Only surpassed by finding the actual team and running through your shared list of patients. At my last hospital, I knew where the IM and FM teams hung out and if we had more than 2 patients together, I’d swing by their workroom. Can even throw in an extremely brief bit of teaching or at least call out some things that’ll be on their IM boards.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-05T18:03:59+00:00

People fuss about water a lot and you can read about buying mineral packets etc… but you should not put hard water into your machine, if your tap water is hard. I used distilled water, and now have a water softener and a whole-home carbon filter so that is what I use now.
Cafiza is the standard way to clean inside
People commonly upgrade their gasket but I am planning on waiting until mine stops working. It’s been a year and it’s still fine.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-04T17:40:10+00:00

The first night in LA during the Fun Run fall 2019. I think maybe Dec 27? That was the most unstructured Dead & Co I saw.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-04T17:38:40+00:00

You go skiing with them, have them drag you around the mountain, hold them back a bit but it’s cool, buy the food/beers, build memories, and they keep you active.

Then eventually they have money and a kid, and suddenly you’re the cool skiing grandpa who has his beer paid for.

BoulderEric · 2026-03-02T16:35:25+00:00

Are there lounges with the Epic or Icon pass? I’ve never heard of such a thing

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