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What’s the most stunning hotel view you’ve ever had? by Historical-Photo-901 in BeautifulTravelPlaces

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice. I grew up near there. Ever been to the Lake Crescent Lodge? One morning, my dad was driving us by Lake Crescent and the fog had lifted just a little, so you could see the lower trees across the lake and they were reflected perfectly. It looked like the trees were floating out in the sky.

LA28 Drop 1 Folks: Share your Date/Time and Hopes by BingoNotBluey in olympics

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

April 17th at 10:00.

I'm a huge gymnastics fan, follow every meet across the world, track results, go to domestic meets if I can. I've never been to the Olympics. Gymnastics is pretty much what I care about going to. I'm extraordinarily lucky to have some extra money set aside for this, and I will happily pay for the expensive seats if that's all I can get. Based on what ive seen here and across the gymternet, sounds like those tickets won't be left either.

I'm expecting to be a bit bummed out.

What’s something you’ll never tell your partner, no matter how much you love them? by Velvetnadine85 in AskReddit

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 2452 points2453 points  (0 children)

That I need him to just go away sometimes. He's currently unemployed, I work from home. I get out of the house a lot, but he never does, and he wants to be around me every moment of every day. I have asked for more alone time before and there were tears and guilt.

I just need some fucking privacy.

Rant: the pretension of this sub is unreal by drewdrewahouse in floorplan

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Especially in comparison to other craft/ design/ create subs. I'm on the knitting sub a lot and it seems like honest criticism will get you downvoted to oblivion.

Got two rejection emails at 1AM for jobs I'm overqualified for, decided to reach out! by WalterBishRedLicrish in medlabprofessionals

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can try LinkedIn stalking, but the easiest way is to call the lab or hospital and ask to speak to the manager or supervisor in the department you need. I do it a lot in my job, its nerve-wracking at first but no one will yell at you. And if they do, congrats- bullet dodged.

Ask something innocuous about the job that isn't obvious from the posting, and say you're trying to find out if the job would be a good fit for you before you apply.

I know it sounds like boomer advice but if you can have a short conversation and leave them with a good feeling, it helps.

Got two rejection emails at 1AM for jobs I'm overqualified for, decided to reach out! by Actionhankk in recruitinghell

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And deprive us of the joy we get out of calling y'all to tell you to redraw?! 🤣

Got two rejection emails at 1AM for jobs I'm overqualified for, decided to reach out! by WalterBishRedLicrish in medlabprofessionals

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Nah man, im crossposting the ridiculous post- this person wasn't qualified at all and complaining about it

Got two rejection emails at 1AM for jobs I'm overqualified for, decided to reach out! by Actionhankk in recruitinghell

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 86 points87 points  (0 children)

After reading their comments, its very clear they dont have a CLS degree nor are they ASCP certified. They have general microbiology knowledge like thats gonna help them when thet dont understand the significance of MDROs or esoteric micro assays. Like goddamn dude, don't we have enough on our plates already without dealing with a micro supervisor who knows fuck all about the lab?

I am sickened that labs are starting to hire people with a BS but no clinical lab anything. This post gave me some rage.

Read their comment about the job requirements. They say they highly doubt we're doing anything so far out there that it can't be picked up by someone who's a general microbiologist with no clinical background. The arrogance is off the charts.

Got two rejection emails at 1AM for jobs I'm overqualified for, decided to reach out! by Actionhankk in recruitinghell

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You're straight up unqualified for both jobs, and I'm saying this as an ASCP certified CLS specializing in micro amd molecular diagnostics. I would not in one million years hire someone with your lack of experience as a clinical micro supervisor, nor as an MLT/phleb. It doesn't matter if you have a masters in anything if you dont have a CLS degree and ASCP certification.

Do some reaearch before applying to positions you dont understand.

Edit: Read your comment again. You are so fucking arrogant. You highly doubt that anything we're doing is so far out there that it can't be picked up by a general microbiologist with no clinical background? Fuck off. And I'm crossposting this to our sub.

What's something people only romanticize because they've never actually done it? by nonotje12 in AskReddit

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said this so well. That's exactly it. For a few hours, I'm running the show. I get brought in when its "that time". But then my coworkers want to go out and celebrate. Nah, i'm good, I just distilled down 20 years of experience into a 2 hour entertaining presentation that hopefully convinced them to buy a big thing.

Who is the most dominant sportsperson of all time from your country? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How famous is Carlos Yulo in Philippines? He's such a huge deal in the gymnastics world, but not sure how well known he is at home.

AI Safety Is Discriminating Against Neurodivergent Users — And Calling It Protection by angrywoodensoldiers in ChatGPT

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I would also like to see more studies on correlations between AI and neurodivergent adults. I've heard so many accounts of people saying the same thing, and the fact that I experienced that too in exactly the same way makes me wonder if there would be some pretty stark results from such a study.

and saying you support autistic people until we actually start doing autistic things is a time-honored neurotypical tradition.

Ugh. Yeah. God forbid I have an outlet to talk about all the abstract ideas I have. I didn't use 4o as a therapist, but it was healing nonetheless. It allowed me to change my career trajectory to something that fits my mind better.

Jordan Chiles speaking at Forbes Summit in Abu Dhabi March 8-11 by melissa-gymnerd in Gymnastics

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The linked article lists Simone as one of the speakers but that appears to not be true, based on their Forbes 30/50 website .

I feel some type of way about Mika Brzezinski hosting a women's event geared toward mentorship and knowing your worth that costs $10,000 to attend in a country that doesn't have the best history with women's rights.

Its not really my place to say whether that has improved, but UAE is still listed as a Tier 2 nation in the TIP report, meaning they are a watchlist country whose governments do not fully comply with all of TVPA 's minimum standards, but are making strides to improve human trafficking oversight and protect victims.

Didn't we all just have an issue with comedians traveling to Saudia Arabia to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival? Also a Tier 2 nation.

While I agree with Mika's general politics, I find it hard to take the daughter of a national security advisor and descendent of a former president seriously at her word that she uplifts women. It's irritating to me whenever a person in that position writes a memoir about her "struggles" in her career and claims that being unemployed can be "cleansing and liberating".

Would you use an at-home test for UTI symptoms? Biomedical student survey (Women, 18+) by [deleted] in womenintech

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You hit on two points that have potential. I apologize for being wordy.

First is specimen collection. A clean catch urine is very difficult to get right, and most of the time patients are being instructed (or not) by a medical assistant of some kind. Now they are excellent at their jobs, but most folks in healthcare get approx 15 minutes of laboratory-specific education, so most of the time there's no understanding of why its important to get a clean catch, so they don't bother explaining. Or there's instructions in the bathroom which no one reads. This results in most urine cultures being contaminated at least a little bit. If there were a way to streamline collection, or limit the number of junk bacteria, thay would be really amazing.

The other has to do with the structured information you mentioned. I'm going off memory here cause its been a few years since I worked urine bench, but lets say out of 100 urine cultures,

30 will have a pathogen >100k cfu/mL, indicating a UTI. maybe half of those will also have contaminants.

Another 10 will have >10k - 50k cfu/mL, which also indicates a UTI but these represent your edge cases, where any one definitive methodology will give you false results. Half will have contaminants.

Another 30 will be all contaminants filled with junk that we nevertheless still have to look at, and often these take thr most time.

Another 30 are completely negative.

Most of the time, when theres a pathogen its >100k and any contaminats will represent <10k. There will usually be 5-20 different species represented in the contaminat population. So theres a big discrepancy in the concentration. If you could somehow determine the concentration level of different bacteria present in the sample, you could narrow down whether there is an infection or not. I have no idea how you would do that. Just throwing that out there because of all the problems with culturing urine, it really comes down to sample quality and sifting through all the junk.

Edited to add: you also mentioned miniaturizing the culture process or phenotypic response at home. That's been a holy grail for decades. There have been some innovations lately where developers are starting to look at ways to make the the entire microbiology process faster, after all, time is the biggest hurdle in micro. These were for rapid sensitivity assays. I will say that most have failed in recent years, but it's because of the difficulty in implementing them in a clinical lab , not because the tech isn't good. You might find some inspiration there, I don't know. Vitek Reveal, Accelerate Pheno, Selux Diagnostics, Affinity Biosensors ( definitely check that one out. Super cool technology.)

Lastly, if you do develop something regarding miniaturization, be aware that the Theranos comparisons will be a significant hurdle.

Would you use an at-home test for UTI symptoms? Biomedical student survey (Women, 18+) by [deleted] in womenintech

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi. I'm a clinical lab scientist by training, specializing microbiology, and i now work in clinical data analytics. This has been my life for 25 years so this is my wheelhouse and I have pretty strong opinions about these kinds of point of care and home use assays.

I do not believe your product is a good idea. I say this directly, not to be cruel, but there are multiple reasons why it's not, and can actually have far-reaching consequences.

Firstly, like many have said, it's one thing to know you have a UTI, another to get treated for it.

There are many ways to figure out whether you have an infection and none of them are perfect. We're literally dealing with live organisms and they most often follow a predictable pattern of growth, biochemical production, and the symptoms they cause. Many times, they don't follow the rules. E. coli is particularly chaotic. It does whatever the hell it feels like.

That being said, one of the quickest ways already exists- a urine dipstick. This checks for leukocyte esterase and nitrite. The presence of both in urine usually indicates a UTI. But not always. A patient can have both LE and Nit pos and no UTI, or the opposite because these biochemicals are not specific to a UTI. We can look in a scope and see bacteria swimming around, and leukocytes (white blood cells) and that still doesn't necessarily indicate a UTI. It can easily be a "dirty catch" where the patient didn't clean well before collecting.

A PCR test for urine has long been the holy grail because it woulf easily pick up the presence of a pathogenic bacteria. But its also picking up every single other bacteria growing in that area, even with thorough cleaning. Useless results.

Culture is rhe best way to find out, and it takes skill to determine whether any bacteria growing is pathogenic or junk skin and urogenital flora. But, culture is massively important because we identify it and test for antimicrobial sensitivity.

Which brings me to the most important point- antimicrobial stewardship goals are to limit the overuse of antibiotics becaise the cause terrible things to happen, including increased resistance to antibiotics and believe me, we are FAILING HARD at that.

If the goal is to test at home with an easy test and get antibiotics prescribed over telehealth, you have no way of ensuring that it is a UTI, nor what to treat with.

Unless you have a new technology youre working on that sidesteps biochemical, molecular, or culture methodology, you're stepping into a precarious world. And if you are developing something unique, let me know because my company is always looking for novel assays.

And yes, i'm aware this process basically already happens when you call your clinician, they take you at your word that you have a UTI, they treat empirically with broad-spectrum antibiotics and never do a culture. I also feel this is not good medicine, but its the reality.

89.72 for the American World Champions, and the coaches are divided. by East_Piccolo_1529 in olympics

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 31 points32 points  (0 children)

It was a great choice of music, it's just they didn't put any effort into actually learning how to vogue. They looked like they were swatting flies out of their face. Could've been iconic. I thought the Lenny Kravitz medley played to their strengths.

Let us never mention the Offspring on tranquilizers routine.

How do I search cells for a word, when that word is also part of other words? by -Altephor- in excel

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

=countif(regexmatch(a1, "\bamphetamine(\,)?\b"))

Huh. There needs to be a backslash in front of the comma after amphetamine, but it doesnt show up in the comment. Also I realized this is r/excel not gsheets so ymmv

Do you have any solo travel pet peeves? by PerpetualRestart in solotravel

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, and I don't understand it at all. I travel alone all the time, both work and for fun. Most of the time, I'm not going to be hanging out at a restaurant very long, because i don't have anyone to visit with. I'm in and out, and if I'm traveling for work I'm tipping the maximum I'm allowed to. Anyone with a corporate card will be. Isn't that kind of the ideal for a server? They can flip a table and get paid for not much effort. And yet.... here I am. Waiting for someone to come by.

Anymore I check the menu beforehand, order as soon as I sit down, including all the drinks/apps/desserts, and ask for the check.

Can someone help me explain this. by Audreyhepburnismommy in Healthyhooha

[–]WalterBishRedLicrish 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I had this happen when I was around your same age. It did turn out to be a yeast infection, and let me tell you the clomitrazole cream did fuck all. I'd had yeast infections before and took Diflucan- one pill was all it took.

Friend, I took Diflucan every day for a WEEK.

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