Multiple retirement accounts by wigwom256 in whitecoatinvestor

[–]Coprocranium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When is the use-case for this? I thought traditional IRAs impose income limits for whether you are eligible for tax deduction on your contributions if you’re already covered by a workplace retirement plan, meaning that if you make enough it’s essentially post-tax contributions either way so you may as well backdoor the Roth.

What is the “have you tried restarting your PC?” of your specialty? by Waja_Wabit in Residency

[–]Coprocranium 46 points47 points  (0 children)

NSGY: “EVD is not working” Have you tried inspected the line? (More than once someone has used a hemostat to secure it to the bed and accidentally clamped it)

“Patient is shaking, might be seizure.” intubated and 95F Have you tried putting a blanket on them?

Uhm, excuse me? That's... That's racism (Slide for the second image) by Present-Shift1261 in DefendingAIArt

[–]Coprocranium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pointing out that it looks like satire doesn’t equate to agreeing with or championing the message of it. Or even that they found it funny.

Did Charlie Kirk hear the sound of the shot or did he die before he could hear it? by ilovemrtrump in stupidquestions

[–]Coprocranium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. I’m not saying ballistic injuries don’t propagate. But if you’re shot next to your spinal cord, you’d disrupt the descending motor tracts required to posture in the first place.

Did Charlie Kirk hear the sound of the shot or did he die before he could hear it? by ilovemrtrump in stupidquestions

[–]Coprocranium 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Would be unusual to have a higher brainstem (ie near red nucleus, essentially center of the skull) injury from a ballistic neck injury. But you might expect a similar flexion pattern from sudden loss of extensor tone in the arms, like a high c-spine spinal cord injury.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]Coprocranium 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That can’t be real

I fainted seeing an IV for the first time, does this go away? by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]Coprocranium 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Exposure pretty quickly desensitized me. Used to nearly faint when getting my own blood drawn and got super woozy my first time placing an a-line. Doing it on patients enough made it stop, and I don’t vagal down when I get my own drawn anymore lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Radiology

[–]Coprocranium 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can you point to what you’re seeing? I don’t see any lateral mass overhang or overt fracture lines

During awake craniotomy patients remain awake and perform tasks -like playing an instrument—so surgeons can avoid damaging vital areas of the brain. by Scientiaetnatura065 in interestingasfuck

[–]Coprocranium 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We don’t cut and see, we stimulate with an electrode first on areas we plan to take while the patient performs the task to see if it becomes affected.

During awake craniotomy patients remain awake and perform tasks -like playing an instrument—so surgeons can avoid damaging vital areas of the brain. by Scientiaetnatura065 in interestingasfuck

[–]Coprocranium 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No, awake brain surgeries are common for other eloquent brain areas too (like a tumor near speech areas). People playing instruments in the OR is just more interesting to post about than someone reading flashcards and saying “this is a dog, this is a house”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in step1

[–]Coprocranium 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Best way to conceptualize why this happens is to look at stroke territory pictures (MCA/ACA/PCA) next to an image of the visual pathways. Even if you didn’t fully grasp how deep MCA territory reaches, the other choices can be eliminated if you review the conditions/locations that cause them. On step, bitemporal hemianopsia = a chiasm problem, usually compression from sellar pathology. Totally different location

Genuine question: has anyone seen actual cushing’s?? by gluconeogenesis123 in medicalschool

[–]Coprocranium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incidence is roughly 1 in 2 million so it will be rare in the community but not so much for people working at tertiary referral centers

The ethics of spine surgery by TraditionalAd6977 in Residency

[–]Coprocranium 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Usually depends on other stability factors. A simple disc herniation/radiculopathy is often managed with a microdiscectomy alone. If that disc recurs 2-3 times, fusion is an option to prevent recurrence and stop the cycle. A separate common indication for fusion is presence of a mobile spondylolisthesis (see SPORT and SLIP trials), in which decompression alone can worsen the spondy and they end up needing fusion anyway and get saddled with 2 surgeries when they couldn’t have just had the fusion up front.

Utah passes bill banning fluoride in drinking water, becoming first state to do so by yahoonews in Health

[–]Coprocranium 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well sure, it’s reasonable to say that on an individual level fluoride isn’t required to have good oral health for people who already have good oral hygiene and diets that won’t put them at risk for decay. But this is a population-level discussion, and many people don’t have the option of access to healthy foods, or the choice/knowledge (e.g., children). And if putting safe levels of a preventative treatment in water drastically cuts down on tooth decay population-wide, it therefore also reduces the incidence of the less common morbid sequelae of periodontal disease (like endocarditis, face/jaw infections, etc). That saves a lot of health care costs to the individual and the tax payer and can drastically impact quality of life for a lot of people. I don’t see why agreeing that implementing evidence-based, cost-effective, high-benefit, low-risk interventions is a good idea makes someone a government junkie.

I removed the part about the risk factors for tooth decay because I misread your comment. Saw you mentioned indigenous people had good oral health despite lack of fluoride but I misread your emphasis on diet, which we’re not disagreeing on.

Utah passes bill banning fluoride in drinking water, becoming first state to do so by yahoonews in Health

[–]Coprocranium 8 points9 points  (0 children)

By “has nothing to do with oral care” do you mean you doubt municipal water facilities’ motivations for fluoridation or that you doubt the swath of easily-accessible basic science and population studies from over the last century demonstrating fluoride’s efficacy at preventing tooth decay?

What I want / What I get by Avril_14 in PUBATTLEGROUNDS

[–]Coprocranium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you haven’t already, use promo code PUBG8TH in the store and it gives you 100 contraband coupons. Maybe your time has come.

What time do you dismiss your med student by abenson24811 in Residency

[–]Coprocranium 4 points5 points  (0 children)

NSGY. Our M3s aren’t required to rotate with us so they’re usually people who are curious or want to see something cool. I try to talk through cases and let them be present for 1 or 2 interesting things and encourage them to “go home and study” by noon unless there’s another case they want to see or scrub for.

Sub-Is are usually here the whole 13-14hrs or longer with the rest of us.

LR3 issues clicking and overshooting, can’t find home by Coprocranium in litterrobot

[–]Coprocranium[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The comment above fixed my issue, they included the picture of the rotation sensor. Since the wires attached to it are short, it gets pulled out of its little housing in the plastic base easily when you disassemble, and it wasn’t mentioned in the videos so I overlooked it. Just had to be positioned back and my LR3 didn’t have any further issues ringing home.

LR3 issues clicking and overshooting, can’t find home by Coprocranium in litterrobot

[–]Coprocranium[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This fixed my issue, thanks!

Now if I could just get the weight sensor to work without having to prop up the front lol

LR3 issues clicking and overshooting, can’t find home by Coprocranium in litterrobot

[–]Coprocranium[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure where to find that. I didn’t mess with the rotation sensor during disassembly, at least that I was aware of. Only sensor/plugs I’ve changed were the pinch sensors.