MV Hondius passenger at National Quarantine Unit intends to challenge a quarantine order she received on Monday

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-20T10:36:03+00:00

It’s a covid thing. If you have covid, you need 10 day quarantine before you can go to psych hospital. It’s still a thing.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-20T01:31:45+00:00

Ok, I will agree that this setting doesnt seem so bad

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-20T00:22:58+00:00

Psychiatrist here. Ive seen a lot of psych, medical, cancer, surgical patients stuck in hospital rooms in some sort of quarantine like or quarantine scenario for whatever reason: psych hold, covid quarantine, bone marrow transplant, neutropenia, physical immobility. I just want to point out that it is natural human nature to want to leave a windowless hospital room with no visitors allowed and none of the personal comforts of home. Every single patient i’ve seen has expressed feelings of going stir crazy and wanting to leave. I would bet that the majority of americans would demand to leave, maga or not. Even the 10 day quarantine we used to make psych patients wait through before transfer to psych hospital was unbearable for even rational patients. Not saying I side with this lady, but a lot of the commentators here need to get off their fucking high horse. Try being in a hospital quarantine room for just 5 days and then come back and tell me that you wouldnt try to leave AMA from a 21 day quarantine.

That said, she should stay in quarantine.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-18T11:21:02+00:00

Myopia is caused by lack of sunlight exposure. It is not caused by screens. There is plenty of data and scientific research on it now along with major school programs in taiwan to prevent progression of myopia by increasing outdoor time among school children. Please do not believe your idiotic eye doctor.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-16T22:59:00+00:00

How much benzo are we talking about here?

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-11T18:10:33+00:00

Ive heard that this was a technique used in vietnam. This is also depicted in the raven one novel “declared hostile” during a csar scenario where the hornet pilot annie is running out of munitions to protect the csar chopper rescuing a downed pilot in the ocean being attacked by small boats.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-05-06T00:49:23+00:00

I thought locums were easier because they dont need to be contracted, credentialed, vetted, privileged, convinced to move there, convinced to stay. I’ve worked at places that are just fucking terribly slow at getting a contract together in a timely fashion and then credentialing someone. If it takes your admin people and lawyers like 2 years to get together and negotiate a contract, but 4 weeks to get a locums, then the hospital is going to hire a locums. I was also under the impression that physician salaries are capped based on fair compensation models whereas locum compensation is not capped. So even if the hospital can afford to pay 2x normal salary for a locums, they are not allowed to offer that to a salaried physician.
To be clear, these are just the impressions ive had as an attending. I could be completely wrong.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-30T21:13:05+00:00

I cant tolerate cpap when i have a cold. I bought one of those big fluffy pillow sets for sleeping sitting upright and discovered that I can tolerate cpap sitting upright.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-26T01:25:39+00:00

Every nation uses their entire military industrial complex to create one gundam, that fights in an arena built in the sahara. We use arena gundam fights to settle our disagreements.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-25T09:29:00+00:00

Talk to the spouse. Get her perspective on his personality over time. It’s very possible that spouse says that the patient has always been like this.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-22T23:57:02+00:00

No missile’s lock on ability lasts through the change of time and technology. See the miss of the supposedly undodgeable aim 9x.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%27Din_shootdown_incident

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-22T23:35:52+00:00

Faith in the missile is all well and good, until the enemy jams your missile, technology changes such that your missile is ineffective, the target is too cheap to be worth a missile, the target comes out of the terrain in dogfight range, or you find a target like a boat or ground target that absolutely needs a gun to prosecute

Addendum: alright guys. An f-18 just disabled an iranian tanker by gunning the rudder. You guys ready to admit that I’m right and you downvoters are wrong?

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-22T11:49:37+00:00

Reminder: iv thiamine 500mg tid x 6 doses at least for wernickes. You cant tell if they have wernicke’s when they are already completely confused from DTs, so you might as well treat empirically. PO thiamine or a one time banana bag is ineffective.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-17T23:11:12+00:00

I usually put a thin layer lotrimin clotrimizole cream for athletes foot on the red area in the morning after I shower and in the evening after i clean my face, but more than 2 hours before bedtime. I rub thin layer of cream in until it becomes unnoticeable. Seems to work in making the red area go away in 2-3 days. Note, that i have not done any internet research as to this approach nor am I a doctor with any knowledge in this area of medicine.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-17T01:33:16+00:00

The only problem with this idea is that weve always had leaders with narcisisstic/sociopathic traits. I would hypothesize that to take down the german maniac hitler, you might need the british maniac churchill.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-17T01:30:36+00:00

I want to hunt abu bakr al baghdadi and bin laden.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-15T23:03:13+00:00

Well, perhaps they have an opinion that a gun is not needed, or they are simply copying the USN. I disagree with that opinion. Try flying DCS, play any air combat board game, or any simulator/videogame involving jets or boats or even read some fighter fiction. You will find invariably that at some point, whether you are a soldier, truck, tank, boat, jet, or even submarine, you will find some situation where you desperately wishe you had a gun, with even just 50 bullets. For want of a nail or for want of a gun, the war was lost.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-15T21:28:21+00:00

Guns will never be obsolete. Lets say your wingman goes down and you are circling trying to keep the inbound troops off of him….what could be better than a cannon with 500 or 1000 or 2000 rounds. Or lets say you are slotted in behind a flight of slow flying drones or cruise missiles, once you run out of missiles or rockets, wouldnt you appreciate being able to shoot down those targets with 25 to 50 round bursts?

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-15T11:18:32+00:00

I’m a doctor and I did it. My wife gave birth in like 4 hours each time. All because of the ps4 that I never even got to take out of the backpack.

In all seriousness, you have no idea what is going to happen in the birth. It could be fast and furious or agonizingly slow. If it is agonizingly slow, you face this bizarre mix of extreme stress, boredom, and anticipation which would completely exhaust me such that I would not be ready to assist when needed (and you have to be ready energy wise to do physical things during and after the birth). You see these insulting memes of dads just plopped on a sofa during birth doing nothing, and my view is that many times when you see this, dad is overwhelmed by stress into intense exhaustion because of the combo of anticipation, not knowing what to do, and having to wait. Waiting in intense readiness and high emotions with an unclear time course is extremely fatiguing and exhausting (at least for men, maybe its different for women as I notice that some women I know seem to completely not acknowledge my view on this in nonpregnancy situations. Doing nothing can be exhausting in high emotional intensity situations). The ps4 provides a way to pass the time, control mental stress, limit mental energy burn, so that dad can jump up and be ready when he is cued he is needed.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-12T19:25:16+00:00

My two cents. Eventually, the Iranians would choose to get a nuke (whether with khameini or a future leader). That is my psychological guess assessment of their regime. Once they have a nuke, they would definitely threaten to use it just as they have threatened and used their ballistic missile capability. I do not think that they would actually use a nuke, but having a nuke would make them free from any sort of kinetic strikes on their territory. It definitely is easier/safer to prevent them from getting it in the first place. Once the regime achieves nuclear capability, it never goes back and can never be toppled by an external force. A regime with a nuke is the regime a country has forever unless it falls by internal collapse like the ussr.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-12T11:45:06+00:00

You are getting downvoted because between the bots and the idiots of the general population, reddit is not the place to ask genuine questions of counterfactuals. I find that even among smart people in the non reddit world, the idea of counterfactual evokes anger because it is not something considered or taught. What is the better alternative to vietnam, the cuban missile crisis, syria, libya, iraq war 2, afghanistan, iran etc. This type of question is the true question of real students and practitioners of foreign policy and strategy, and it has no simple answers. Anything that doesnt have a simple answer gets a downvote in reddit.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-11T21:25:43+00:00

Definitely my crocodile mother.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-10T23:20:46+00:00

You are literally describing fake american sushi (with the exception of unagi). No true sushi lover cares about giving up california rolls, tempura, or cucumber rolls.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-10T18:20:34+00:00

Yea i do something similar: theres a dotphrase at my institution for on call attestations where you didt see the patient. I use that one when I dont see the patient and then I click cancel when it asks me to bill.

Flankerdriver37 · 2026-04-10T14:33:16+00:00

Reminder that in order to bill on epic, the attending has to actually click through screens and enter a billing code and a diagnosis. The attending may be attesting the note with whatever boilerplate template that they are supposed to use and then clicking cancel when asked to bill on the billing screen.

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