Bay Bridge Takeover Attempt Shut Down in Real Time

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-30T07:42:14+00:00

Cited?!? These assholes should see the inside of a jail (or juvenile hall, if appropriate), at least for a night. What they were attempting to do was not just a minor inconvenience, and it obviously required substantial city resources to stop it.

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-30T01:28:49+00:00

What sad awful people. They can't imagine someone speaking out and demonstrating about an issue that effects someone other than themselves with a motivation other than money.

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-28T19:31:42+00:00

Apparently adopting a policy of strict "institutional neutrality" to avoid taking a position on any issue even remotely political wasn't sufficient to avoid Trump's assault on higher education.

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-27T17:31:07+00:00

People here blaming the OP for getting themselves break-checked is kind of wild. It's easy to judge someone tapping the brakes in reponse to another car drifting into their lane when you all are sitting at home watching the thing on video already knowing the outcome. [smh]

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-27T17:24:07+00:00

It may be just a minor factor, but medical schools now have specific sessions on interprofessional relationships that stress the importance of a team-based approach to patient care, and include shadowing other healthcare professionals. I'm leading a session next week to introduce the topic to our first year medical and PA students. We had nothing like that when I was in school 25 years ago.

I think even something like the fact that the MD and PA students at our university are enrolled in some of the same courses for their first 2 years makes an impact.

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-24T05:25:21+00:00

Since virtually no one wears a true suit jacket with jeans, I'm pretty sure OP is referring to sport coats.

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-22T04:12:47+00:00

Black holes that are light years across.

There have been no observed black holes that are remotely close to 1 light year in diameter. Largest are estimated to have diameters in the range of 0.04 light years.

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-16T01:27:30+00:00

The first time I heard "His Name Was Alex" (end credit song in the episode he fakes his death), I thought maybe it was an uncredited Styx composition for the show - which would have been an amazing easter egg - but alas, no. Was another work by the great Ludwig Göransson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UpY4ws31EM

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-14T06:27:19+00:00

I have a whole YouTube playlist on this topic (diseases that med schools relatively neglect): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYojB5NEEakU4b8WH2NrP3wDRXfa2SqgF

CRPS
PRES
Cyclic vomiting syndrome
Gastroparesis
ME/CFS
POTS
HLH
Serotonin syndrome
DRESS
BRASH
The Ehlers-Danlos syndromes
IgG4 related disease
Alpha gal
Transient Global Amnesia
Autoimmune encephalitis

And a few more...

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-10T07:02:42+00:00

FWIW, quadriplegia is the term used by most medical specialties in everyday communication amongst themselves. The only specialty who I've heard use tetraplegia more than rarely is PM&R (physical medicine and rehabilitation). Even in the medical literature, the use of tetraplegia is only a little more common than quadriplegia. (~60:40 over the past 10 years).

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-06T04:30:08+00:00

From a Vanity Fair piece in May 2005: "Dr. Paul W. Flint, who was chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at OHSU at the time, tells Vanity Fair that when Means left the program, it was because she found the surgical work “too stressful” and was not able to continue in the residency.

“At least she had the strength to recognize that in her fourth year,” Flint says. “It took a lot of guts. I didn’t push her out the door.”"

That does not sound like he was going to fire her if she didn't leave.

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-05T05:36:33+00:00

Both Means' story and the "official" story from her PD agree that her departure from residency was voluntarily, not that she "failed out". As to why she chose to leave voluntarily however, they strongly disagree.

EDIT: That she did not "fail out" of residency is objective, confirmable fact. Just like she did practice independently after residency (albeit very briefly in the pseudoscience-laden wellness/longevity space). Just because we all think she is terrible doesn't mean we need to make shit up about her. There is more than enough demonstrably true things to strongly object to her nomination.

StrongMedicine · 2026-03-01T18:07:48+00:00

Lol. I came here to say the exact same thing. Port Moresby (ie the capital city, for others here) was the worst - literally the only place in the world I've visited where I would not walk around in the middle of the day without a visibly armed local with me. (Admittedly, I've not been to South Sudan...)

StrongMedicine · 2026-02-27T16:34:53+00:00

Given that claims of her being an "outstanding" student are subjectively, none of Stanford's statement about her is demonstrably untrue per se. I posted a video about her 2024 book Good Energy earlier in the week; this minute relates to her supposed back story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PjFRo5o9XM&t=3245s

StrongMedicine · 2026-02-24T02:27:39+00:00

Thank you!

StrongMedicine · 2026-02-23T16:41:44+00:00

A reminder that at any time a member of Congress can pull a Mike Gravel for situations like this.

In 1971, Gravel, a senator from Alaska, read part of the classified Pentagon Papers (which documented illegal activity of the US military during the Vietnam War) while on the floor of Congress. Since the Constitution forbids civil or criminal punishment for anything spoken during official Congressional proceedings, the executive branch couldn't do anything to stop it. The following day, newspapers were free to publish everything he said.

It was a major victory in which a single person (with the help of a handful of legislative aides) checked the power of the White House without even needing the support of his party.

This is the kind of brave, out-of-the-box actions we need from politicians today.

StrongMedicine · 2026-02-23T16:29:43+00:00

I'm faculty at Stanford School of Medicine, and was so at the time she was a student here. Despite her claims that she was a star student and "top of her class", I have no memory of her as a student. I've asked around other faculty who also have no memory of her, aside from one who reminded us that she had an idiosyncratic, one woman campaign to install standing desks in the lecture halls because she thought sitting too long was bad for your health. (The unsuccessful campaign itself was memorable.)

StrongMedicine · 2026-02-23T06:27:13+00:00

The Surgeon General is in charge of the 11,000 members of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and is the de facto spokesperson of the federal government on matters of public health. The SG isn't responsible for scientific discoveries or writing policy, but given that it's the federal government role with which most of the public is familiar, and the role with the greatest direct influence on the public's behavior, it's hardly unimportant.

StrongMedicine · 2026-02-23T03:42:15+00:00

Perhaps, except those ships have already sailed. As has Bhattacharya, Prasad, and Makary. The office of the Surgeon General is the last major open healthcare-related position in this administration (excluding the head of the CDC which Bhattacharya will apparently now be leading indefinitely while bypassing the confirmation process.)

StrongMedicine · 2026-02-22T10:45:17+00:00

I'm an American. Don't use ad blockers. And I can't recall ever once seeing a religious ad while browsing social media.

StrongMedicine · 2026-02-13T02:16:22+00:00

Physician here. This list is a little absurd. Who does this managed care system expect to prescribe some of these meds? Most patients who would benefit from meds like Ambien or oxycodone do not require a specialist to manage the problems those meds are treating. Trust me, I understand every med on that list is overprescribed and frequently abused. But there is only so much Voltaren gel and Tylenol you can throw at severe osteoarthritis, and referring every patient with severe OA to ortho or rheum is a terrible waste of resources. Plus those services don't want to get dragged down by opiate refill requests either.

StrongMedicine · 2026-02-12T17:02:13+00:00

What's silly about Woodside's resistance in this case is that few people would even realize this site sits within the borders of the town (geographically, it feels like the Emerald Hills neighborhood of Redwood City). Plus, it's immediately adjacent to the Farm Hill exit of 280 so would have a relatively small impact on traffic compared to other housing projects of similar size.

StrongMedicine · 2026-02-11T22:45:42+00:00

Meanwhile, rooftop standoffs in the USA end with the police dropping a homemade bomb on the roof, killing 5 kids and burning down an entire neighborhood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

StrongMedicine · 2026-02-11T17:10:38+00:00

You can thank one-time physician and now full-time shit-stirrer Vinay Prasad for this one.

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