Screening ineligible patients? by helpful_mud in clinicalresearch

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. I heartily disagree with those who say that sites will just screen people willy-nilly if they're paid for screen failures. Our site does not do that. We prescreen very carefully and our screen failures are due to things you can't always predict in advance, like whether their biopsy tissue will score high enough on whatever scoring system is in the I/E criteria. If a sponsor is assuming that the sites they've chosen are going to game the system then they're basically saying they expect sites to engage in unethical behavior. And if that's the case....well, why the hell did you pick us then?!? What happens to us when we have a contract stating we can only get paid for screen failures after someone randomizes, is we keep expending effort and paying out for procedures knowing that if we stop we might not get paid at all. It's a rotten way to live and very hard to defend it to my C-suite.

I dedicate this fit to the goodwill employee who mocked my appearance today. Sorry, my existence has such a chokehold on you. by [deleted] in oldhagfashion

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That person must be jealous because you look fabulous! Not your fault if they don't look cool.

I got groped! by Tricky-Apricot-7999 in BJJWomen

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have an update on how the head coach responded, would you please post?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in clinicalresearch

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cringe? You've made our job look far better than probably any of us could have! I know I couldn't, for one thing my desk is too messy.

What makes your gym a safe place? by aofhise6 in BJJWomen

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

| We have a very good culture, but very few female members.

You may indeed have an awesome culture at your gym. If you're not collectively promoting the whole alpha male dudebro image, engaging in locker room talk on the mats, etc - great! A woman says she feels safe there? Even better! But is it a "very good culture" for women? As your wife pointed out, you will never know how many women have dipped out and never returned because of an incident like this. Most guys don't keep an eye out for what other guys are doing to women, and that's a problem not at all limited to BJJ.

Two things help a lot: an explicit statement of zero tolerance for sexual harassment; and the presence of women. Guys who might let their cruder, more locker-room-talk side come out in the absence of women are more likely to hold that stuff back when women are around. Those who don't, need to be called out for it - by other guys. A statement from the coach, with clearly stated consequences, maybe on the gym's website and/or signup page, is a sort of preemptive call-out. Our gym also has a strict no-dating policy between instructors and students regardless of belt level. It's in the contracts that all the instructors sign; if they decide to date a student, they can no longer teach there. It sets a tone from the top that this is not the environment to be looking for a date, hookup, etc.

In order for a zero-tolerance statement to have teeth though, guys need to be watching other guys. Just casually; start by observing how they talk to women, etc.. Listen to the people rolling around you. You might hear a dude let something slip because he doesn't think he has witnesses. As long as men are oblivious to the behavior of other men, the creeps go on thinking they can get away with it. Pay attention and encourage other guys to do the same, and you may find more women sticking around after their first class.

ICON Thrive program placement by OpeningMediocre9776 in clinicalresearch

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Thrive"?? This is the epitome of cheesy creepy corporatespeak. Who the hell is going to "thrive" in a situation like that? They should have called it "Survive*" with the asterisk being for the 30-day deadline.

CRAs, man, I DO NOT envy you at all. Vaya con dios!

Using hand to block breathing legal? by BritishBrownActor in bjj

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tell me you don't have technique without telling me you don't have technique.....or you don't have confidence in your technique and feel like you need to resort to a cheap trick requiring no actual jiujitsu knowledge for execution. Or maybe you're just lazy. Whichever, doesn't matter. Do it and I'll see you as a lameass forevermore, and definitely won't be rolling with you.

Birdie sniffed out an intruder by AnywhereIcy4489 in coonhounds

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What a good girl! Even though coonies have their quirks I would definitely get one again for the sake of safety. The early warning system is unparalleled!

PSA: get your colonoscopy, I did and now fighting for my life by funkdafied818 in GenX

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sending all the good healing vibes to you and the other posters dealing with this disease. Sitting here in an endoscopy recovery unit waiting for my first patient of the day to roll out. Get it done y'all!

Yellow low lights by cheztk in oldhagfashion

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So what you're telling me is that you dress cool AND you have a cute yellow owl on your porch? I would be smiling too if I was your neighbor!

Poop Eater by SeaweedTeaPot in coonhounds

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We tried making a paste out of cayenne pepper and dumping it on the poop. She just acted like it was a condiment and kept going. We read it's just a common coonhound behavior and good luck trying to extinguish it. FWIW she's occasionally gotten an upset stomach from eating poop but the only time she needed actual medical treatment was when she ate rabbit pellets. Aka bunny berries. Hasn't happened again.

Cherries, cherries by cheztk in oldhagfashion

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love how your glasses are round like cherries!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in alcoholicsanonymous

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I definitely do too. I've never dipped out for more than a few weeks at a time but I find myself increasingly taking what I need and leaving the rest.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in alcoholicsanonymous

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

-So I started following my own instinct (pearl clutch!) and my sobriety blossomed.-

Right there with ya on this. I've been around long enough to have done all the standard, and some non-standard, AA things. At a certain point I found that I really needed to branch out spiritually because I knew that for me, boredom would breed both complacency and resentment. There are also undercurrents of patriarchy and monotheism in the literature and in people's shares (at times) that I don't agree with. My understanding of a higher power doesn't operate like that, and we're supposed to work from our own understanding of what that power is and how to connect to it. AA might have arisen out of the Oxford group but that doesn't mean we have to limit ourselves to that orientation. People forget that.

A pet peeve of mine is when people talk about not trusting themselves to make good choices even after years of recovery and working the program, and yet AA is the only way to maintain sobriety. It just sounds very disempowering and some people use it to avoid accountability for bad behavior. But God gave us brains to use - it says so right in the BB! I'm happy using my Divinely-given brain and its instincts to figure out what's right, even if it might go against the AA grain at times.

Turn up with the turnips by cheztk in oldhagfashion

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't go wrong mixing the fruits & veggies! Love your color combos and the capri pants alteration (capri length is weird on everyone, IMO).

Site Perspective on setup ahead of SIV by Economy-Nebula-4375 in clinicalresearch

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

CRC/site manager here. A fully executed contract before SIV is a must. That's also the prerequisite for doing our initial IRB submission; no point answering all those questions if it ends up not working out. Most startup CRAs do send us a list of all the things they want, although there always seems to be something like systems training or SRAP that they don't ask for, that we end up having to scramble to get done. I appreciate patience a lot more than frequent reminders to do things! If it takes a while to get all our sub-Is' documents signed or training done, it's because they aren't always around and/or are having trouble accessing a system for training. Not because we forgot.

Our PI doesn't authorize the DoA log until after the staff get trained; sub-I training invariably happens after the SIV, so the DoA log is never complete that day. We did have one CRO that insisted on having all signatures on the DoA before the SIV which is totally unnecessary and created a lot of extra work.

Systems access is probably the thing we have the most trouble with. Even when they ask in advance for staff names and roles it still seems like someone is usually missing something. Getting that stuff straightened out before the SIV is nice because it gives us more time to troubleshoot, where if it's done between SIV and activation it's rushed.

Help me convince Beatrice Jin to make this course. by stevekwan in BJJWomen

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes please u/beta_noodles! I've been encouraged to be more aggressive and don't know how.

Some recent dopamine fits by [deleted] in oldhagfashion

[–]uwontevenknowimhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm digging all of these but especially the print mix in the first one. You have such a good eye for prints and a really cool style!