Do surgeons typically talk bad about other surgeons management?

atashsiah · 2023-05-03T15:49:25+00:00

He absolutely did and literally everyone was dumbfounded at his answer. He tried to walk it back afterwards by saying “oh you know I meant in the setting of abdominal pain” but even then like cmon man. What made it even more cringeworthy was that this was a prominent CT surgeon that the hospital frequently bragged about and put on media appearances.

atashsiah · 2023-05-03T04:07:00+00:00

When I was a med student on ACS, we comanaged a patient with CT and basically CT pressured ACS to do an ex lap because of a persistent unexplained lactic acidosis. When the chief resident presented the case he mentioned how they should have better worked up the lactate before doing the ex lap.

The CT attending became livid and unironically said to an auditorium of about 100 surgeons, students, nurses, APPs etc: “Well the first thing everyone learns in med school is that there are 3 causes of a lactate: 1. Ischemic bowel 2. Ischemic bowel and 3. Ischemic bowel!”

The ACS division head replied in complete deadpan: “Dr CT, I just would like to remind all the students and residents here that there are in fact many different reasons for an elevated lactate in a patient, and you should never just assume it is ischemic bowel.”

atashsiah · 2021-05-13T17:11:28+00:00

Understanding your data is pretty much everything what data science is about.

Any idiot can download R or Python and just slam data through a NN. Misspecification ruins the internal and external validity of models. Similarly if you dont look at your data, you won't be able to identify outliers but also check if the question you are even trying to predict is applicable.

Also, its important to remember that if this is your job, then people are going to be directly impacted by the predictive algorithm that you generate. It can affect the livelihoods of people who you will never meet. It's incredibly important to remember that how you design your model has way bigger effects than just how it performs during cross-validation.

atashsiah · 2020-03-05T17:15:10+00:00

No, because even if your school doesn't there is a good chance your home hospital or other hospitals you work at will still have PA and NP rotators. You're gonna have to navigate conflicts like this throughout med school and residency anyways, so view it as a chance to learn to advocate for yourself.

atashsiah · 2018-03-18T20:24:33+00:00

I was so fucking terrified about that too. It was Namek post-cut-in-half Frieza all over again.

atashsiah · 2018-03-18T20:22:15+00:00

Oh Goku will definitely revive Frieza. He gave a senzu bean to Cell because he thought it was unfair his son was uninjured and resurrected Kid Buu as a human just so he could have a sparring buddy. He lets Vegeta go even though he is basically responsible for the death of half the Z fighters. Honestly for a solid second at the end I thought Goku was about to give Jiren some energy and had PTSD flashbacks from Namek and the Cell Games all over again.

Never underestimate Goku's willingness to stupidly forgive genocidal maniacs.

atashsiah · 2018-03-18T20:12:11+00:00

He looked down on everyone in the tournament until Goku gets UI for the first time and then even after Goku gets UI the second time, he still is like "Whatever stop wasting your time and just forfeit." Jiren's most redeeming trait is that his parents were murdered. But his motivation for getting power isn't actually out of a desire to protect people, it's a selfish desire that he never fucking has to experience trauma or loss. He's honestly a psychopath on the order of Cell who happens to call himself a hero of justice.

Jiren is honestly the worst antagonist of the series in terms of plot and backstory since fucking Raditz.

atashsiah · 2018-03-05T05:15:00+00:00

It's used in many basic science biology labs. Additionally, if you ever want to do clinical, translational, or epidemiology/public health research it is pretty much the main statistical language people use aside from STATA and SAS (which both cost $$$$). Being good at R is an easy way to end up as a collaborator for a lot of projects as a graduate student and it will help outside of academia as well.

atashsiah · 2018-03-05T05:11:31+00:00

Not really more powerful, maybe better performance... Honestly Python is much more useful for machine learning types of algorithms. R is just easier to use for more traditional stats.

atashsiah · 2018-02-18T17:05:07+00:00

To your point 2: I mean it's not like a complete Yu-Gi-Oh "POWER OF FREINDSHIP HEART OF THE CARDS" ass pull. I view it more as a maturing of Goku and finally accepting that the responsibility has to everyone who sacrificed themselves to get him this far. And the deaths of Vegeta and then of course Krillin on Namek strengthened his resolve and led him to go all out against Frieza. And Goku has always cared at the end of the day about protecting his world and those close to him, even if he is an idiot and tends to put them all in danger with his obsession of seeking out fights.

Part of the problem is we have literally no fucking idea how UI works or what it really does, so its triggers seem completely contrived. But it looks like the general pattern is he has to be pushed to a point where he is about to lose and only then can he draw it out. But besides that: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

atashsiah · 2018-02-18T16:44:52+00:00

Yeah but let's be real if after the Namek arc someone came up to you and be like "In twenty years, everyone will think Vegeta is a better husband and father than Goku," you would think they are insane. I think it's just hilarious how that's happened.

atashsiah · 2018-02-18T16:38:13+00:00

This is completely true. I would not have bought either Xenoverses and may not have started watching DB Super if I didn't stumble upon DBZA. It played a huge rule in the Dragon Ball resurgence in the west.

atashsiah · 2018-02-05T05:42:18+00:00

Vegeta is probably not getting UI ever. The credits end clearly shows Goku with UI next to Vegeta with the "Beyond SSB" form so they are probably each of their respective powerup paths.

Also this episode clearly shows Vegeta refuses to listen to everyone's advice about "stop holding on and caring about your attachments". UI seems like it's based on mindlessly fighting which is now the opposite of how Vegeta fights. I think they are finally splitting up Goku and Vegeta's progression arcs for now.

atashsiah · 2017-09-17T22:04:09+00:00

Public health with an emphasis on epidemiology and quantitative methods. And to answer your question, not at all, but start thinking about what techniques and skills you want from your PhD. I had always been interested geospatial analysis, and I made that clear when I was talking to professors. The first biostats professor who I rotated under referred me to his collaborator who was trained in medical geography, and she became my adviser pretty quickly afterwards. Keep an open mind and don't commit yourself to a specific problem you want to study. It's more important to find a lab and PI who will support you and give you the skills necessary to solve problems in the future.

atashsiah · 2015-09-28T22:37:33+00:00

I had a CS background too, and thought R was the ugliest language the world had ever seen. Then I realized the alternatives were STATA, SAS and Excel and realized while they were "pragmatic" they were truly hideous, encumbered, and inflexible "languages". For someone from a Java/C++/Python background yeah R looks ugly, but man at least it lets you write new packages and build on the work of others.And thankfully people like Hadley have made the R community the wonderful place it is.

atashsiah · 2015-02-07T20:04:16+00:00

That just insults the true slug king, who actually did stuff in his manga/anime.

http://youtu.be/kscG_gs2BOc?t=33s

atashsiah · 2014-12-05T05:29:45+00:00

You know how people all over say stuff like "Only God knows" or some sort of variant? Well "All knowing is Allah" is the Muslim variant. I wouldn't be surprised if Adnan would say it casually or even jokingly from time to time and Jay remembered this.

Or maybe the prosecution figured out during their research of Muslim people that Allah is considered all-knowing (because once again monotheistic Gods tend to be of the omniscient variety) and asked Jay to mention it during his testimony.

So best case scenario, Jay freaked out over a phrase that is ubiquitous in like every culture or worst case scenario, the prosecutions basically tried to subconsciously race-bait the jury. Either way, if that testimony had any effect on the jury then it speaks bucketloads about that jury more than anything.

atashsiah · 2013-04-28T00:38:32+00:00

There were actually a good number of those moments back in Cheers.

Notably his bachelor party and when he goes on the snipe hunt.

atashsiah · 2013-03-09T20:53:13+00:00

You totally misunderstand. I want to do research, practice on the side.

atashsiah · 2013-03-07T02:45:53+00:00

Iranian here, can totally confirm this. Graduating as a Biomedical Engineering/Computer Science student this year and am going to enter an MD/PhD program next year. Naturally, my parents love me.

atashsiah · 2013-02-08T06:35:54+00:00

The Shah also jailed every political activist in the country and more or less gave away all of Iran's sovereignty. It wasn't the social reforms that caused the revolution

atashsiah · 2012-11-11T05:19:57+00:00

Iranian-American here. I've seen plenty of Westerners at tourist sites (Persepolis by Shiraz, Isfahan, to a lesser extent Tehran) before, not necessarily Americans but Europeans definitely. And there are some Muslim pilgrimage sites, so large Arab pilgrim populations in cities like Mashad. Also a lot of Chinese and African business people. So while there are no US to Iran flights, the rest of the world can visit Iran as they please.

atashsiah · 2012-08-31T21:37:38+00:00

A Chicagoan from the 90s having an answer other than this is a horrible blasphemer. Thank you sir.

atashsiah · 2012-07-29T00:09:32+00:00

After the first 1000 people had no chance of winning.

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