what has the iphone replaced?

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iphone just had 15th birthday. what has it replaced for you. I'm into photography, and the current iphone camera has largely replaced my other cameras....

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Sounds like some weird MLM pyramid type thing, I’ll show you how to teach courses on how to show other people how to teach courses. Or something like...

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not a good sign when you go to a website and have no idea what is being sold....

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Good rule of thumb is when you hear passive income think charlatan....

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They probably subconsciously wanted to get divorced and used the save money thing as a excuse to....

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Wow we’re now debating pharmaceuticals now on the forum.

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You have your personal cell to a patient and you’re upset that they are using it?...

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Sure it depends, but I wouldn’t make someone book an appointment to review normal labs....

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So you would make a fellow physician make an appointment to review labs? I don’t think a hospital CEO is trying to avoid a 10 dollar copay....

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I would bend over backwards to help a colleague as long as medically appropriate

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It’s called professional courtesy, reviewing some labs every three months irks you?

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Regardless of your plans to spend more, not maxing out your 401Ks makes no sense to me

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U must be fun to work with...

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My point wasn’t to say things were better. Just different and interesting to look back.

I literally would pay a thousand bucks if I could...

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Actually my main gripe with epic is the present and the very perceptible lag between a mouse click or key shortcut, and the action being performed. If...

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Makes no sense for ortho to be primary on these types of patients and I don’t really care for hospitalists who argue otherwise....

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I probably had the chart you were looking for....

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It was a significant issue....

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Who are you talking to? I’ve had a wonderful career at Kaiser, best decision I’ve made....

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Don’t forget though that hospitalists are experts at ordering sleeping meds and prn Tylenol....

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Go to work, grab a bunch of progress note sheets and start scribbling notes, fold the notes and put in pocket, then go to the floor and go to the nursing...

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So to summarize the responses: hospitalists are an indispensable due to their unique ability to independently care for complicated patients

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What has your experience been with working with hospitalists? Do they provide value and are they helpful to you?...

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If you were salaried you would see as many patients as the people tell you see for that salary...

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IR would decline that procedure here. That patient would be set up to have periodic paracentesis in the GI clinic....

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someone has to order the PRN tylenol and constipation meds (i guess I could just give a verbal for those things also)...

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actually you're incorrect. This may be unique to where I work but we end up making a lot treatment decisions that would normally be in the purview of...

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Haha hospitalists are glorified residents but I’m not going to be mentored doing a procedure. The only procedure I do is chart biopsies, I’m an expert...

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I agree with him....

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our department has moved away from doing any procedures and that's for the best. LP's are done either by ER on admission or by anesthesia during hospitalization....

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Dude, the current variant is basically an entirely new virus in terms of virulence and mortality risk, there's no rationale to base any decisions on previous...

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this is kind of a weird post, there’s not enough context or information to know what the situation is. The way it comes across, though, is that people’s...

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hygiene theater...

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umm.... the high risk cohort is part of the overall mortality number. So even if you were to assume every death is someone with multiple high risk co-morbidities,...

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you're a psychiatrist right? here's what i'm seeing as a hospitalist: many, many incidental covid patients, patients that we admit only to find out a...

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What? You’re not isolating him in a room with no visitors and keeping his grandkids away at all costs?...

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boosting every 4 months? what's the purpose of that? you are protected against severe illness or hospitalization after the first 1 or 2 boosters, so are...

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what does waiting another year or two mean? How exactly do you avoid it? people like to think they have more control over avoiding covid than they do...

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The problem with your outlook is that you’re assuming it’s going away at some point. It’s not, so everyone will have a date with covid at some...

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he's conflating the need for observational data (for which we have plenty) vs a "study" which of course does not exist for obvious reasons.

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The grandmother gets 4 shots, everyone else gets fully vaccinated. If she gets covid it’s very likely to be mild. I wouldn’t take any other “steps”

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I think it will be very underwhelming. Do the vaccines offer lasting and durable protection against infection (they don’t in adults therefore I would...

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What’s the goal of vaccinating against covid? I think we all agree it is to prevent severe illness and hospitalization, for the age <5 cohort this...

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the 6000 number is probably an undercount of 1:10...

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You need to define what endpoint you are trying to avoid....

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what kind of behavior modifications are you referring to? i've come to the conclusion that contracting covid can possibly be delayed but cannot be prevented...

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reading this kind of makes me sad for you....

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I think it’s hard to overvalue a benefits package that includes a pension amongst other things....

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This is a bizarre post. You’re seeing patients in a parking lot? Um ok....

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this doesn't sound like anyway to live....

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I would ban all of them or make it so hard to get one that it wouldn’t be worthwhile....

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2nd amendment is a weird anachronistic relic from hundreds of years ago. It’s very unfortunate that we are burdened as a country with it....

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Every country has deranged people, just that in other countries they can’t go out and buy an AR....

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Repeal 2nd amendment is the solution

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When I sold a car on craigslist, what concerned me was getting a call or email after the sale was done. So I made sure to inform them of every small little...

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google it:
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/ho...ke-check-scams

These scams work because fake checks generally...

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i didn't watch the videos (I've seen enough on my own). Here's the thing, when the car does something halfway decent people are surprised, BUT the technology...

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not sure what point you're trying to make. the system basically sucks but is more advanced that other mainstream production systems? (what mainstream...

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I disagree. Humanitarian aid should be given liberally without strings or conditions. Military and Governmental aid on the other hand should be given...

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I'm not referring to highways (that's a cakewalk), I'm referring to driving on Market street during rush hour and suburban roads with either poorly marked...

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I suggest you read the recent headlines, the Ukrainians are pushing hard against any negotiations that involve giving up land for peace. Of course that's...

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If on a scale of 1-10, 1 is cruise control, and 10 is fall asleep in your car and the car drives itself to your destination. Tesla's progress is moving...

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People who are involved in the development of self driving cars think the notion that Tesla will reach autonomous driving is a total joke. Watch the FSD...

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I wonder how many people paid for full self driving and if they will be okay with the fact that it’s never coming....

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That kind of depends on what we do in response....

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Wise words....

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you're comparing apples to oranges....

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kind of confused why this would cause someone stress, this is money that is being passed down to you and the investments were made by someone else. you...

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Personally I wouldn’t sell and wait for tech to come back which it will. So I guess I would agree with the other sibling....

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Problem is, it seems that EM is surrounded by yes men and no one is there to serve as a check....

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With that salary and with the market returns we have had the past 10 years I think should be more. I think maybe they were paying down the house so that’s...

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The way I see it they have 210 saved. I dont care about their house equity, 529, or 401k which is a given. Not saying they’re doing poorly but I would...

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Doesn’t look like you have that much saved so I would keep it up....

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i assume you meant to write condemn not condone...

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LOL china invades russia? then we invade mexico next right?

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I don’t think I’ll have to, it’ll be obvious....

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The answer is a bit more complicated and it preceded the current war....

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So… why aren’t we supporting Ukraine joining NATO?...

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I guess we’ll see how it plays out....

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So the goal should be to restore Ukraine to prewar borders no matter how unrealistic that is and the cost on Ukrainian lives and cost to us. Nope, not...

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From nytimes today:
“Mr. Duda’s remarks came as the German, French and Italian governments have suggested a cease-fire, calls that Ukraine has...

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LOL you can count me also as someone with exceptionally well deserved skepticism in the US government with regards to this.

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The more you write the less and less credibility you have. You need not look further than the past 20 years to see how coherent of a military strategy...

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are hospitalists real doctors? don't they just order laxatives in the middle of the night?...

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So should we bankroll them in a fool's errand (reclaiming Crimea), or should we support them in achieving objectives that have some reasonable chance...

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LOL, they may want to share their objectives with Ukraine because today's WSJ headline is this:

Ukraine Will Fight Until All Russian Forces...

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We now know what I suspected regarding the 54 Billion in aid to Ukraine
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...aine-us-aid-si...

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Lol now you want another middle eastern war. I believe you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the limits of military intervention....

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I guess we’ll see how it plays out....

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Kind of interesting that you have to go back 75 years to WW2 to find a military intervention that makes sense to me. Regarding Ukraine, I wouldn’t paint...

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You’re equating the current situation to Nazi aggression in WW2? I don’t think we’ll see Russian tanks rolling by the arc de triomphe anytime soon....

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I refer you to post 591 of this thread....

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I sleep well at night knowing that if the US got into trouble, nato article 5 dictates that Montenegro and Luxembourg will come to our defense.

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I think most peoples dream life doesn’t include becoming a real estate investor or landlord. And I’ll keep watching YouTube videos rather than learning...

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Basically whenever you hear about nato led this or that just substitute US for NATO....

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https://youtu.be/Vpwkdmwui3k...

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Things tend not to work out well when you provide assurances of victory without first defining what victory entails. Mission creep and quagmire are things...

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Yeah that off ramp is going to be hard to find when: We have a prominent politician who vows U.S. support until "victory is won". And you have...

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I think these will look great on a canvas print..

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I don’t think you’re in big trouble, U just need to have money directly deposited into investment accounts before it hits your checking account. All...