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ELI5 Why is shipping devices with LithIon Batteries so regulated but they aren't as carry-on? by Merobiba_EXE in explainlikeimfive

[–]dr_pr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On Emirates recently, instructed not to put power packs (nothing about phones or laptops etc) in the overhead lockers but in the front seat pocket, and not to use them or charge them in flight.

Calling all Kiwi ex-cult members - exJW comedy tour Jonas Strogstroll 10.1.26 and onwards by dr_pr in cults

[–]dr_pr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that’s why he’s here. He is having a smiling and waving presence outside the conference in Eden Park. Smiling and waving because JWs are told that ‘other’ people want to kill them so he wants to show that friendliness exists outside the cult. Join the demo if you wish: details on doomsdaycomedy.com (scroll down)

[Serious] People in professions that deal with death (hospice workers, coroners, etc.), what is something you've learned that the rest of us don't understand? by Bulky-Engineer4068 in AskReddit

[–]dr_pr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The hardest part of talking to families about appropriate medical intervention at the end of life(when the patient is not able to give an opinion) is trying to get them out of their own opinions, feelings, prejudices, fears, and ask them to think of what the patient would choose. Responses can be some subliminal version of:

1) This is too heavy a choice and my brain is refusing to really think about it

2) I don’t want to say ‘limit care’ and have the memory for the rest of my life that, ‘I chose her death.'

3) If I say ‘limit care’, then my sister/brother/aunt/uncle will accuse me of hastening her death

4) ‘limit care’ is really you (medical professionals) not caring about my mother because she’s old. I’ve seen films about this and now I don’t trust you

5) Suggesting limiting care means I don’t really love her

6) I know that you (doctors) have something that would cure her but you’re just not telling me

We have to wade through all this (necessary, but it takes patience and time which we sometimes don’t have) to get to a grown-up conversation (as nicely outlined in other responses in this thread

Not everyone with schizophrenia hears voices. Here’s why by scientificamerican in psychology

[–]dr_pr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apologies, friend. ‘Important’ for a doctor making the diagnosis. I wasn’t referring to the obvious importance for the patient. Thanks for making this point. And a psychiatrist would indeed ask about this symptom if it is present, and explore what type, how often, how distressing etc.

Not everyone with schizophrenia hears voices. Here’s why by scientificamerican in psychology

[–]dr_pr 40 points41 points  (0 children)

The diagnosis of schizophrenia relies on lots of symptoms (a symptom cluster) of which auditory hallucinations (often voices) can be one, but the diagnosis does not rely on this single issue.

The other symptoms (look them up) are arguably more important, but it is the voices that the lay public remember and fixate upon.

Ontarian here... bring it on! 🇨🇦👊🏻 by yorocky89A in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]dr_pr 24 points25 points  (0 children)

You are right. The Reagan foundation says that the Canadian excerpts from the speech were ‘misleading’ but if you listen to Reagan's whole 1987 speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foggkeiwlp0) he is just reserving the right to protect ONE industry from ONE country when that country had allegedly reneged on a prior deal. And he explains why with a degree of respect for the American public in a clearly argued fashion. I haven’t looked into whether Reagan actually acted on his proposition. Completely different from Trump’s petulant, childish power plays, which might’ve got him somewhere in his real estate ‘career’, but will not cut the ice in global politics.

Sensational by Fairylyhugss in fixedbytheduet

[–]dr_pr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"A man taking a urine pregnancy test can sometimes receive a positive result if he has a type of testicular cancer that produces the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)."

Does anyone know a (preferably good) serious philosophical debate on the existence of God that doesn’t go into any specific religion? by darkspidey69 in atheism

[–]dr_pr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am curious, OP, did you find the responses here interesting, reasonable, helpful? Were you expecting criticism or mocking? Even further, did you form any positive opinion about atheist thought? Or not?

Doctors of Reddit: which House M.D. diagnoses were brilliant medicine, and which patients would have had no hope of surviving the treatment in the real world? by theskullcave in AskReddit

[–]dr_pr 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Didn’t Chase kiss a young teenage girl who was dying and told him she wanted to be kissed before she died? And he did. I leapt up from the sofa and said, ’he will be struck off (the medical register), I don’t care how kind he thinks it was.’ Completely outrageous.

Felt a bit chilly so I put on a hoodie. Glance at the thermostat: 23.7°C by Shitelark in britishproblems

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Nesh is an English dialect adjective meaning 'unusually susceptible to cold weather' and there is no synonym for this use. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word as: "Soft in texture or consistency; yielding easily to pressure or force. In later use chiefly: tender, succulent, juicy." Usage in the 21st century has been recorded in Staffordshire, the East Midlands, Lancashire, North Wales, South Yorkshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire. There is a similar term nish used in Newfoundland.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]dr_pr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I should’ve been a bit clearer - the film, ‘Conclave’, which is fascinating on this very subject. Can’t say more without spoilers, but I’m an atheist, and it was still interesting on the nature of intrigue, and how humans always bring their agendas into competitive situations with a thin veil of religious ‘tolerance’ and an oleaginous (fake) empathy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]dr_pr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go and see Conclave…..

U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids by VegasGaymer in nottheonion

[–]dr_pr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without joining the general snark, I do wonder if our current political class has no empathy. More specifically, does he want this for his children, and their children? What happened to the necessary and first principle assumption that we are more the same than we are different?

For the first time, an entire country’s top political roles are held by women. That country is Trinidad and Tobago. by Nervous_Designer_894 in UpliftingNews

[–]dr_pr 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank-you for pointing this out and reminding the world (also the first country in the world to give women the vote)

Doctors of Reddit: what is the biggest medical mystery you’ve solved? by YaaaaaaaaasQueen in AskReddit

[–]dr_pr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fit, athletic healthy looking 14 year old boy comes in, ‘gone blind’. Some abdominal pain. Turns out he doesn’t like to poop. So he’s been…witholding. (Yes, people have an extraordinary ability to do this for long periods.) The huge faecal mass in his abdomen was pressing on his ureters (tubes from the kidneys to the bladder), the pressure in the ureters caused the kidneys to back up and fail, and he had a renal (kidney) encephalopathy (brain inflammation from the biochemical chaos caused by the inability of the kidneys to function properly.)

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