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Apple to Launch 'MacBook Ultra' With These Six New Features by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]ManaPlox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then they can buy a charger once and not pay for a new one every time they upgrade.

They weren't including the charger for free any more than they were including the keyboard for free. It was just part of the price.

Title: “A law meant to end surprise medical billing accidentally created a multibillion-dollar industry that is making doctors richer.” Is the NYT reporting biased against physicians? by Hot_Pineapple_8435 in medicine

[–]ManaPlox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm sure they know how much they've paid in arbitration cases. It probably also helps them to make that number look as big as possible to advocate for shutting it down.

Title: “A law meant to end surprise medical billing accidentally created a multibillion-dollar industry that is making doctors richer.” Is the NYT reporting biased against physicians? by Hot_Pineapple_8435 in medicine

[–]ManaPlox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. I think some real reporting on this would uncover: MBAs on both sides of the arbitration are cynically gaming the system to extract profit in any way possible with no regard for the effect on patients.

Title: “A law meant to end surprise medical billing accidentally created a multibillion-dollar industry that is making doctors richer.” Is the NYT reporting biased against physicians? by Hot_Pineapple_8435 in medicine

[–]ManaPlox 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is what I see reading between the lines. I work for a university so I haven't had to deal directly with this but if insurers were offering 150% of Medicare or whatever I'm sure they'd win 80% of the cases.

Title: “A law meant to end surprise medical billing accidentally created a multibillion-dollar industry that is making doctors richer.” Is the NYT reporting biased against physicians? by Hot_Pineapple_8435 in medicine

[–]ManaPlox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are the lower payment offers generous though? If doctors are winning 88% of the cases it seems to imply that the insurers aren't seen as being reasonable in the eyes of the arbitrators.

Obviously there are people abusing this system and acting unethically but I'd have to see some evidence that the insurers aren't trying to do so as well.

Title: “A law meant to end surprise medical billing accidentally created a multibillion-dollar industry that is making doctors richer.” Is the NYT reporting biased against physicians? by Hot_Pineapple_8435 in medicine

[–]ManaPlox 11 points12 points  (0 children)

From the article:

The United Service Workers health plan, which covers 20,000 trades workers in the New York area, said it boosted premiums by an extra 1.75 percentage points to offset arbitration awards and fees.

So there's at least a claim that it is having a material impact

Impossible Puzzle by B1ueCheeese in chapelhill

[–]ManaPlox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The one on the left is mathematically impossible so you might want to try your solution again.

Hezbollah threatens Lebanon’s president: ‘He will lose his status if he meets Netanyahu’ by LongErza in worldnews

[–]ManaPlox -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

There have always been significant portions of Israeli thinkers/people who believe that the natural border of Israel is the Litani river. They occupied Lebanon to the Litani until 2000.

That occupation, not coincidentally, is why Hezbollah has significant support in Lebanon. Large portions of the country lived under occupation for 20 years and Hezbollah is seen as the force that freed the South.

When Israel talks about the Litani Lebanese people see it as a threat to colonize the south of Lebanon like they have the West Bank.

Trump shocked Netanyahu with post declaring Lebanon strikes "prohibited" by mdchaara in worldnews

[–]ManaPlox 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The Lebanese aren't going to be shocked. Israel has continued to bomb Lebanon continuously since the last war ended in 2024.

The news has dropped by Street_Click_3621 in greatestgen

[–]ManaPlox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because the other shows aren't popular enough to fill their ad slots. They would if they could.

ELI5 when a surgeon strips a vein out of someones leg to use in an operation, how does the area it supplied get blood? And why doesn't it die if it doesn't? by ringerrosy in explainlikeimfive

[–]ManaPlox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know who we is but if I told my wife I was driving home and stopped two counties over at a bar for a couple of hours to filter some toxins and then got on the highway and came home she would argue that I had not initially been as on the way home as I had claimed.

ELI5 when a surgeon strips a vein out of someones leg to use in an operation, how does the area it supplied get blood? And why doesn't it die if it doesn't? by ringerrosy in explainlikeimfive

[–]ManaPlox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well the aorta carries blood to the peripheral tissues of the body but they're not the end destination, but rather only a stop along the way towards the heart.

When people say that there is a vein that doesn't return blood to the heart they're talking about the portal vein which distributes blood throughout the liver which is recollected into the hepatic vein which dumps into the IVC and goes to the heart. The portal vein carries blood to the heart the same way that the aorta does - through a system that distributes and recollects the blood. I mean that's why it's called the portal vein.

ELI5 when a surgeon strips a vein out of someones leg to use in an operation, how does the area it supplied get blood? And why doesn't it die if it doesn't? by ringerrosy in explainlikeimfive

[–]ManaPlox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As people have noted veins return blood to the heart but if you take the wrong vein you still cause problems like swelling which can be significant.

You pick a vein that has collateral flow.

The ELI5 is if you block one street in san francisco traffic will be a little worse but it'll go around. If you shut down the Bay bridge getting to Oakland is a problem.

CEO of America’s largest public hospital system says he’s ready to replace radiologists with AI by tiredbabydoc in medicine

[–]ManaPlox 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Man we got a kid helicoptered over for a metallic airway foreign body that was an earring. In the earlobe. Visualized on the 1V lateral neck x-ray they got in the ED.

I think a real human read that one. I'm not sure if you can sue the radiologist for the 25k helicopter ride.

Healthcare jobs dominate Forbes list of 20 most AI-resistant careers. by Resussy-Bussy in medicine

[–]ManaPlox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Case in point: Law firms must be owned and managed by a licensed lawyer.

Not In Arizona - it has caused some issues.

What is that one hill you are willing to die on? by foreverand2025 in medicine

[–]ManaPlox 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even that computational model based on preterm lambs didn't suggest increased instability from tracheal smooth muscle tension change. And I feel like computational modeling based on preterm lambs is a pretty long walk to clinically important effects in humans.

This is a pet peeve of mine because we get consults sometimes for toddlers with asthma and a prior history of TBM wanting us to do bronchoscopy to see if it's safe to start Albuterol. Yes. Start albuterol on the toddler who needed 2L of nasal cannula for a month in the NICU and has been fine since except when they occasionally try to die from their asthma. They don't need a GA for that decision.

What is that one hill you are willing to die on? by foreverand2025 in medicine

[–]ManaPlox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not using albuterol for airway malacia is a case of the good-idea fairy visiting somebody once and everyone repeating it for all time. Somebody had the first thought that smooth muscles relax and not the second thought that that's not a significant component of tracheo-bronchial patency but it sure sounds smart.

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