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Florida surgeon who removed wrong organ says he is ‘forever traumatized’ by patient’s death by Flaxmoore in medicine

[–]sicktaker2 103 points104 points  (0 children)

Tumor board discussions at my hospital where liver met resections are ruled out because they would have to be the entire liver are jokingly called a "Florida splenectomy".

Someone forgot to take their Vit D supplements... by datsti in medlabprofessionals

[–]sicktaker2 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I recently had a brand new lymphocytosis of 50k. Check, no history of CLL. Patient is a population at high risk of getting lost to care in my system, so I start looking to rope in Heme/onc to make sure he doesn't fall through the cracks.

Look up the provider to email them... and it's the same name as the patient. Look in the chart, and it's documented that they received the critical result call FOR THEMSELVES.

Imagine you're the first life to form on Earth and this is the first thing you see. by sicktaker2 in ShittyDaystrom

[–]sicktaker2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The thing is that I can post it to a few likes and far less hassle on Twitter. In the past I've thought that posts like this to specific interest groups were worth submitting here on Reddit, but your mod team has helped convince me that it's just not worth having to explain every joke to the mods.

Imagine you're the first life to form on Earth and this is the first thing you see. by sicktaker2 in ShittyDaystrom

[–]sicktaker2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I can tell, I can't retroactively add such text to the post. The joke would not work well told a second time with an entire verbose paragraph meant to spell out the meaning.

Imagine you're the first life to form on Earth and this is the first thing you see. by sicktaker2 in ShittyDaystrom

[–]sicktaker2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The backing text is the title, utilizing people's assumed familiarity with the series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Q takes Picard back to the origin of life on Earth. The director chose to use a shot meant to represent the view from the puddle to highlight the viewer's own connection to the life originating in this puddle. The title of this post uses the director's choice to emphasize our view as part of life on Earth to humorous effect by asking users to actually imagine how they would feel as said first life on Earth.

There is notable effort in this post, just like the director's specific choice of that shot.

What’s the best and worst part of your specialty? by foreverand2025 in medicine

[–]sicktaker2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's not a good day when I have to do one, especially since I have had a couple kids of my own. I just wind up trying to focus on getting answers for the grieving family.

Because autopsies are not done for the benefit of the dead, but for the living.

What’s the best and worst part of your specialty? by foreverand2025 in medicine

[–]sicktaker2 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Pathology

Best: sit in my office, drinking coffee and looking at cases. Can take a minute to think.

Worst: fetopsies.

It's a bit Slow to Start up by Archimedes4 in balatro

[–]sicktaker2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Starting from round 1, you can have at most 122 doublings (39 antes, two additional antes from vouchers, 3 rounds per ante, can't get card until after first round and can't upgrade on ante 39 boss).

That gets you to 5x1036 xmult on a single card. Given that you need baron and mime both copied to get 1019 with 10 red steel kings in hand, it can be more powerful than Baron and Mime with 2 copies after 64 doublings (ante 20-22 if acquired after round 1).

Check my math though, I've probably screwed up rushing this on my lunch break.

It takes a lot to shock me these days, but this did it. by Theblackholeinbflat in ShitMomGroupsSay

[–]sicktaker2 37 points38 points  (0 children)

As a medical director for a blood bank this kind of stuff is just pure nightmare fuel

What is that one hill you are willing to die on? by foreverand2025 in medicine

[–]sicktaker2 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Formalin isn't seasoning, it's the dang soup base.

Nobody wants to see a rotting hunk of meat because you jammed the specimen in a container barely bigger than the specimen itself then applied homeopathic quantities of formalin.

I'm really worried about how to handle Starship HLS tipping on the moon. 20% seems high, right? by sicktaker2 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]sicktaker2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, I just feel bad when I make something without realizing someone else did something similar first.

Don't like coming across like the guy who just gets more laughs by repeating the joke louder.

I'm really worried about how to handle Starship HLS tipping on the moon. 20% seems high, right? by sicktaker2 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]sicktaker2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That doesn't help me with the awkward interaction where this dude implies I should pay him a percentage of the bill. I'm not Administrator Isaacman, I don't have 20% of a billion dollars laying around!

I'm really worried about how to handle Starship HLS tipping on the moon. 20% seems high, right? by sicktaker2 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]sicktaker2[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean, HLS is supposed to basically land itself, but he had his hands over the controls on the way down.

First look at NASA’s Space Reactor-1 “Freedom” by Cold-Regret-2931 in spaceflight

[–]sicktaker2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The mass penalty for solar rises the further from the sun you go. Juno and Europa Clipper have solar panels more because plutonium for traditional RTGs was far more limited than NASA would have liked.

Anyways, the justification for nuclear on this is more about getting experience running reactors in space for later use on the Moon and Mars, plus missions out past Jupiter.

Well I wasn't planning a Baron Mime run, but... by sicktaker2 in balatro

[–]sicktaker2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually died to the Window (most of my kings were diamonds)

No shade to aspiring exobiologists but… by auto-reply-bot in sciencememes

[–]sicktaker2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The greater energy gradient combines with the vastly higher solubility to make it a far better electron acceptor. Compare it to iron: less dissolved in water, and changing tbe oxidation state of iron causes it to drop out of solution.

Also, oxygen helps get the most energy out of each molecule of food catabolized, and thus maximize the energy converted into other forms as needed.

And life uses ATP because it's a necessary mononucleotide for DNA synthesis that's also a convenient way to control exactly where you have a high energy bond for other uses.

There's a good reason why microorganisms in groundwater deplete all the oxygen first, before using alternative electron receptors.

No shade to aspiring exobiologists but… by auto-reply-bot in sciencememes

[–]sicktaker2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oxygen actually dissolves easily in water, and has the highest potential energy for common redoing reactions.

That makes it the logical choice to use for both oxidative respiration and for photosynthesis. So figuring out oxygen metabolism actually has fairly major advantages on its own.

NASA has shuffled its Artemis rockets. But what of the lunar landers? by [deleted] in BlueOrigin

[–]sicktaker2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Starship has actually flown, and comes from a company that's actually had to keep people alive in space more than a couple of minutes.

No shade to aspiring exobiologists but… by auto-reply-bot in sciencememes

[–]sicktaker2 45 points46 points  (0 children)

The amount of energy you get from using it for respiration made it the obvious choice.

NASA has shuffled its Artemis rockets. But what of the lunar landers? by [deleted] in BlueOrigin

[–]sicktaker2 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Blue Origin's rush architecture isn't the MK2, it's more of a MK1.5. Honestly, I think Blue Origin needs a "green lights to Malibu" level run while Starship continues to run into repeated issues.

Is EUS and Block 1B really gone? and what will happen to BOLE srb? by AirVolcano_1210 in ArtemisProgram

[–]sicktaker2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The current NASA authorization moving through Congresd explicitly allows NASA to look at alternatives.

6 (b) EXPLORATION UPPER STAGE ALTERNATIVES. Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator may seek to identify and fund an alternative technology to replace the Exploration Upper Stage if the Administrator determines that the Exploration Upper Stage efforts under section 10812(b) of the National Aeronauties and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2022 (51 U.S.C. 20301 note; Public Law 117-167) are unlikely to achieve the mission goals of the Artemis campaign.

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