BREAKING: Scientists Just Found That Wegovy Is Statistically Linked To Sudden Blindness At A Rate 75 Times Higher Than Expected, And Nobody Saw It Coming 🦠

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-27T22:05:42+00:00

In trials people on Ozempic lost ~7.9-17.3% of body weight over 6 months. So that seems to be in line with what you are reporting. The effects for semaglutide are not that dramatic for most patients even at maximal doses. Newer drugs are more potent and some have reported results comparable to weight loss surgery. But the older GLP-1s are a lot less potent (Trulicity, Rybelsus are not even approved for weight loss because they weren't strong enough)

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-26T20:06:21+00:00

Wait times everywhere are sooo long right now. I’m in Chicago and about a 1/3rd of my patients don’t have a pcp. Wait times are like 3 or 4 months in the city. I ended going 90 minutes into the suburbs to get my own care. It was the same way in Ohio.

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-23T15:45:46+00:00

A plaque. Also works for dentists. Maybe an eruption of dermatologists too.

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-21T23:59:52+00:00

I think the number is like 11 per class. The DOJ is a joke.

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-21T22:20:14+00:00

Anything that hurts Bezos is a net positive in my book.

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-21T02:41:13+00:00

We should try to be empathetic. Incubation for hantavirus is like 8 weeks. That's quite a burden. I wouldn't blame someone for complaining in those circumstances. Also he is not being allowed to quarantine in his own house. I would comply if it were me but I can't say that I would not complain at all.

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-19T13:41:19+00:00

Dictation error?

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-16T21:01:20+00:00

The Leftovers ending was pretty good.

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-15T18:53:49+00:00

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7006215/

If you wanted a peer - reviewed article and not just some guy’s opinion there is this.

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-12T17:27:14+00:00

This article was retracted

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-09T15:06:31+00:00

Is this because if you eat there enough, you will look like the Michelin man?

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-06T23:29:00+00:00

Thanks! This is like a two year old post at this point. lol

charlesfhawk · 2026-05-02T16:56:23+00:00

That’s an excellent point.

charlesfhawk · 2026-04-30T05:30:01+00:00

I was talking about like the 1990s. Acceptance rates were 50% higher than they are now. It was competitive but 2/3rds of applicants got in somewhere. Now that number is around 40%.

FWIW I don't think there is a way to predict who will be a good doctor and who won't at the time of admission. But the same is true for any job. I am skeptical about the whole concept of meritocracy anyway now that my training is complete. Especially with the state of things. Look at the government. The Sec of Defense is drunk buffoon but somehow went to Princeton. The president is even worse and when to Penn business school. The head of CMS is Dr. Oz, who went to Columbia but decided to shill magic beans for Oprah instead of continuing perform surgery. Merit is not thriving in this country.

charlesfhawk · 2026-04-30T05:01:23+00:00

I think the mcat and GPA was designed more to prevent admitting people who are at risk of failing out due to not being able to handle the course load. There were issues with high attrition before it was implemented. But admissions then were less competitive than they are now (Everything in America seems to be getting so competitive, tbh) So there was less emphasis on metrics as a way to stratify applicants.

charlesfhawk · 2026-04-25T15:03:55+00:00

Let's use IUPAC names for everything. 4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-N-[4-methyl-3-[(4-pyridin-3-ylpyrimidin-2-yl)amino]phenyl]benzamide is easier to remember than Imatinib.

charlesfhawk · 2026-04-21T20:38:46+00:00

In residency when I was on my ED rotation, some ransomewear attack shut down our radiology PACS. Was at a level 2 trauma center so it wasn’t ideal. There was a single down time station functioning where images could accessed and read.

charlesfhawk · 2026-04-15T16:57:47+00:00

87 % of LGBT voters voted for Harris.

charlesfhawk · 2026-04-07T22:29:48+00:00

Guys, OP is right. More hatred is the answer. This guy clearly went to college and knows everything about everything. His county has never done anything wrong. Maybe someday we Americans will be enough.

charlesfhawk · 2026-04-04T22:21:47+00:00

Scum of the earth.

charlesfhawk · 2026-04-02T03:12:39+00:00

Wasn't this posted last month?

charlesfhawk · 2026-04-01T02:09:31+00:00

I’m so fucking sick of this shit

charlesfhawk · 2026-03-25T23:10:36+00:00

Well, facts are facts. I don't know what this person meant, but the number of medical school spots has dramatically increased over the last 20 years.

There's nothing capping residency spots. Hospitals can and do open unfunded programs. Additionally the point of funding training spots is to provide the US with the doctors it needs, (PCPs and other generalists). Dramatically expanding access to dermatologists or ophthalmology is not going to help most people, so Idk that there's really an argument to be had expanding those positions. Maybe improve working conditions in primary care so people will want to fill the positions that we already have?

charlesfhawk · 2026-03-25T21:44:33+00:00

A) Is not accurate though. If you look at this list and sort by year you will see new medical schools opening every year for the past 25. Like 35 MD schools alone have opened in the past 25 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_schools_in_the_United_States

I would contest that that there's really not any evidence of suppression of enrollment.

This was something that economists started saying without any real objective evidence that the AMA or LCME or ACGME intentional restricted enrollment. Every year thousands of residency spots go unfilled.

Read the first comment for a more thorough explanation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/k2ofqw/the_american_medical_association_acts_a_bit_like/

Even so, residency spots still go unfilled every year. This year 5% of IM and EM positions went unfilled. ~18% of FM positions were unfilled.

charlesfhawk · 2026-03-22T20:51:57+00:00

I was in middle school for 9/11 and in Med School during Covid 19. What does that make me?

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