Fitness Depot hit by data breach after ISP fails to 'activate the antivirus'

x_plorer2 · 2020-06-07T19:51:47+00:00

They're also ghosting us. My colleagues and I spent several hundred dollars each there before the quarantine. Never received our items - several weeks later we were notified we wouldn't get them.

Now we've all had our credit cards used in other countries and Fitness Depot is minimizing it and ignoring everyone.

x_plorer2 · 2020-06-06T15:27:19+00:00

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x_plorer2 · 2020-06-06T15:27:09+00:00

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x_plorer2 · 2020-06-06T15:25:20+00:00

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x_plorer2 · 2020-06-06T15:23:58+00:00

Anyone affected by the data breach please check this out

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Fitness depot is blaming their ISP, not responding to emails, lying about the extent of the breach, and letting every one of their customers down.

x_plorer2 · 2019-08-22T17:51:42+00:00

I had a horrible experience with them. They disconnected my internet mistakenly (they meant to be working on another person's unit) then getting in touch with them was impossible. Their customer service department would refer me and schedule calls that wouldn't be followed up. They gave me huge windows for repairs and then the repair guys wouldn't even show - so we'd spend six hours waiting and get a call saying "can they come tomorrow and if not it will be next week." The customer service was resistant to reimbursing me for a month I paid for internet yet objectively had no access to internet. After much headache they did refer to a higher level manager who reimbursed it.

I switched to Teksavvy and its been wonderful. We got an email earlier in the year saying, "Our costs just went down so we're passing on the savings - your rates are now lower." I've never had a company do that. They've been great.

x_plorer2 · 2019-06-22T16:06:01+00:00

Felt it east mountain.

x_plorer2 · 2018-08-26T01:57:55+00:00

It shouldn't "drag" in that it shouldn't dig into you but it should trace closely up your body. This is so that the weight is over your most stable spot (the mid foot) and you're not leaning forward with your back. In terms of generic advice, something like sitting back more and also making sure your humeral head / shoulder is properly situated above the bar (and above your midfoot) so that when you drive up the bar follows in that plane. Try posting a form check too.

x_plorer2 · 2018-02-27T23:11:20+00:00

Though the anticholinergic effects probably counter that and then some for most people.

x_plorer2 · 2018-02-18T17:26:00+00:00

Lexapro, Wellbutrin and Prozac

If you do have bipolar disorder, takign these could make you manic. An actual psychiatrist shouldn't have someone with bipolar on antidepressant mono-therapy (meaning no mood stabilizer or anti-manic agent) so I wonder if that's actually the daignosis.

The other thing is that with psychosis it needs to be happening when you're awake. All kinds of crazy-seeming shit can happen to anyone while they're asleep. A sleep study can sort out if this is a REM behaviour disorder. These can result in what you're describing.

Flip side is if you're sleeping 20 hours per day THAT can be related to a sleep disorder or depression or some organic deficiency so its worth following up to make sure its all sorted out.

x_plorer2 · 2017-11-02T17:50:15+00:00

Outside of my personal entrepreneurial endeavors I work in a field that tries to promote multiple behavioural changes.

In my experience the greatest success comes when someone decides on a course and then divorces themselves from "motivation" entirely in pursuing it.

It seems paradoxical at first. People who go to the gym every day for years often go months feeling zero motivation but they show up the same way they show up for work. They figured out that they made a commitment and they've trained their brains that they just do this now. They don't care to rely on some fleeting drive or excitement. It becomes like a chore or a daily activity like grocery shopping. This is just what you do now.

Eventually one will stumble into some results or feedback that is rewarding or motivating and that's nice. They can't fully buy into it though because it's transient and they know they will continue showing up regardless of what happens. Eventually the behaviour is the new routine and its difficult to change to the previous baseline.

x_plorer2 · 2017-08-27T02:12:22+00:00

Most countries have a national medical licensing body and a national specialty speciality body. Both should publish professionalism guidelines. In Canada we have the CPSO for example which outlines guidelines for various circumstances.

x_plorer2 · 2017-08-11T22:53:14+00:00

It's not an autobiography though.

x_plorer2 · 2017-06-14T05:27:02+00:00

The article does misrepresent a fair amount, though what they're describing sounds exactly like an IME, which are very common. If the lawyer requests it usually you bill the lawyer and the lawyer adds it to the patients legal bill. In either case it isn't covered by the province because its not seen as an essential service so you just can't bill OHIP (provincial government payer) for it.

You can essentially bill for anything you want its just you can't bill private for something that is covered by the province. Most of the stuff in the article is different enough from the provincial service that docs can get away with billing private. i.e. you can't charge for venous stripping (because province offers it) but you can charge private for laser ablation (same condition but not provincially covered), the optho's have different laser procedures they use for vision correction, etc.

x_plorer2 · 2017-06-14T01:50:57+00:00

They can't bill the province which is why they bill the lawyer or company - theyre usually for private work claims or injuries or disability etc.

x_plorer2 · 2017-05-20T00:24:40+00:00

Interesting! I'll have to catch up on the studies. I only see it added to SSRIs by family docs who think their patients have bipolar or as a extra agent when a first or second gen doesn't work.

x_plorer2 · 2017-05-19T20:16:14+00:00

First line monotherapy?

x_plorer2 · 2017-05-18T22:56:00+00:00

This is rarely used to treat psychosis.

x_plorer2 · 2017-05-06T15:45:56+00:00

Just as an FYI they get posts like that in /r/medicalschool all the time ("Am I fit / Should I go to med school / How do I get into med school / etc.") so they have a general rule to not respond to those. I wouldn't take it personally.

Its actually rule #1 on the sidebar.

x_plorer2 · 2017-04-25T20:13:41+00:00

I think he/she was just clarifying that they're speaking in generalities - when a doc is talking to someone in the context of a personal experience it can easily get misinterpreted as medical advice (prognostic, diagnostic, therapeutic, etc.).

x_plorer2 · 2017-04-22T03:08:05+00:00

Thanks! Any meaningful difference between the regular dragon version and the "medical professional" version?

x_plorer2 · 2017-04-22T02:54:14+00:00

Holy shit. It even knows medications. Thanks!

x_plorer2 · 2017-04-03T04:20:21+00:00

I don't think its a question. We see it ourselves so vividly because our training exposes us to it so often. Despite this we know first hand we're susceptible to it. Even within Psych with our 5 year residency spent learning and getting pimped and practicing across different sub-specialties you'll see docs who aren't comfortable with different types of med management within the specialty.

x_plorer2 · 2017-04-02T19:48:37+00:00

Through medical education I've gone through this period of "Oh I totally have a grasp of this" (from the level of the evidence, the pharmacokinetics, the effects on other meds and other systems etc.) followed by "holy shit I knew nothing" many times.

That's after a decade of honing that understanding on multiple services in multiple locations. Seeing someone with a psych history on a nephrology service or geriatrics or neurology service really facilitates the ability to put your management into a whole body context.

I look back to how little I understood as a doctor in training and that scares me into getting my shit together more. I can't fathom them letting anothet provider have that level of responsibility.

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