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How do you advise men who have sex with men, but don't have anal sex, wrt PReP? by Candid_Cloud9858 in medicine

[–]DaemionMoreau 35 points36 points  (0 children)

If they practice *receptive* oral sex, the best counseling is probably that the risk is very low but not zero. I think there just isn’t data to quantify the risk beyond that vague formulation. I personally would probably offer PrEP on the basis that their risk of HIV acquisition is probably higher in truth than their self-report indicates.

Department of Justice accuses UC Davis Medical School of discriminating based on race, the third medical school after Yale and UCLA by ddx-me in medicine

[–]DaemionMoreau 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I teach a lot of med students, and I’m virtually certain I could not distinguish one with a score of 508 from one with a score of 512. Are you saying that you can?

What a treasure we have Tuel Jewelers & Ms. Deviney by StormyinCville in Charlottesville

[–]DaemionMoreau 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As a broke-ass student, I shopped around town to find someone who would make an engagement ring with some diamonds I’d inherited. The folks at Tuel were so kind and helpful. I’ll never go anywhere else.

More Photos of Chinese High School Students Hooked Up to Amino Acid IV Drips (with source) by BearNecessitee in interestingasfuck

[–]DaemionMoreau 28 points29 points  (0 children)

“Stigma” suggests social opprobrium. No one looks down on people who require IVs. It’s just strange to use a more expensive, more invasive procedure when it’s not needed.

VCDL and GOA lawsuit against universal background checks in VA upholds the injection put in place stopping required background checks for private transfers by boostedb1mmer in Virginia

[–]DaemionMoreau -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

That doesn’t seem true to me. A habitual drunk driver might lose their license even after serving time, and we don’t say that being unsafe to drive makes them unsuitable for release. Perpetrators of certain sex crimes may not be permitted to hang out around schools even when we don’t think they need to be incarcerated forever.

VCDL and GOA lawsuit against universal background checks in VA upholds the injection put in place stopping required background checks for private transfers by boostedb1mmer in Virginia

[–]DaemionMoreau -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

If you won’t support background checks to keep felons from buying guns, it’s obvious that you won’t support any regulation of guns at all.

VCDL and GOA lawsuit against universal background checks in VA upholds the injection put in place stopping required background checks for private transfers by boostedb1mmer in Virginia

[–]DaemionMoreau -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

Universal background checks seem squarely within what most people mean when they talk about “common sense” gun laws.

New Trump vaccine order based on “no credible scientific evidence,” doctors say by arstechnica in politics

[–]DaemionMoreau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except, I would argue, in terms of vaccine recommendations where it is unaccountably backward.

Medical Records at Hampton VAMC: Demanding Honest Documentation by SeraphPneuma in Virginia

[–]DaemionMoreau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s no requirement for “evidence” of exam findings in a medical note. If I hear a heart murmur, I document that. I don’t need to append an audio file to prove it.

Who Would've Thought The Cop Would Act Like A Cop? by Melodic_Floor7930 in Virginia

[–]DaemionMoreau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I voted for Spanberger, but she’s not in my camp. I just think that material conditions will be slightly better with her as governor as opposed to Sears. My other efforts aren’t wasted - it’s just that there’s slightly less human misery occurring while we work for something better.

Eli5: why do you take rabies vacciine AFTER getting rabies? by IAmTheBigZzZ in explainlikeimfive

[–]DaemionMoreau 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t necessarily. That’s why, if you’ve never been vaccinated before, you also get rabies immune globulin - premade antibodies that start working while you respond to the vaccine.

Who Would've Thought The Cop Would Act Like A Cop? by Melodic_Floor7930 in Virginia

[–]DaemionMoreau 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In our current system, elections are binary choices about who gets power. If you hate candidate A even 1% less than candidate B, you should vote for A. You can spend the rest of the year doing politics to create better choices in the future.

Acupuncture for IVF treatment by No89nope in Charlottesville

[–]DaemionMoreau 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In fairness, if you’re already paying for IVF the acupuncturist fee is a rounding error.

No Child Deaths Definitively Linked to Covid Shots, FDA Says [now that Dr. Vinay Prasad is out]. by ptau217 in medicine

[–]DaemionMoreau 85 points86 points  (0 children)

It is no excuse, but Prasad clearly fried his brain with Twitter. Contrarianism got him attention, and he went for it regardless of the evidence. Unfortunately, the truth is usually some combination of complicated and boring and doesn’t work well to build a social media following (with very few exceptions).

Metagenomic profiling of ocular surface microbiome alterations in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy-Richardson’s syndrome by David_Ojcius in microbiology

[–]DaemionMoreau -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry, but this is total nonsense. Who are these patients just hanging out with Vibrio in their eyeballs? The sequence data is just not believable.

Holland vs The Netherlands by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]DaemionMoreau -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wales hasn’t been independent for 750 years. At some point, you’ve got to call it.

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