Joshi
@Joshi@aussie.zone
Clean hands, Cool head, Warm heart.
GP, Gardener, Radical progressive
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 week ago:
Like every new technology that is hailed as changing everything it is settling into a small handful of niches.
I use a service called Consensus which will unearth relevant academic papers to a specific clinical question, in the past this could be incredibly time consuming.
I also sometimes use a service called Heidi that uses voice recognition to document patient encounters, its quite good for a specific type of visit that suits a rigid template but 90% of my consults i have no idea why they are coming in and for those i find it not much better than writing notes myself.
Obviously for creative work it is near useless.
- Comment on How Antony Green sees his final federal election playing out | 7.30 3 weeks ago:
This legend has been a fixture of election coverage as long as Ive been voting. I’ll miss you Tony
- Comment on What is the best take your blood pressure to get the most accurate results? 5 weeks ago:
I’m a GP, here’s my opinion
Can’t have eaten/drank anything for the last half hour
- in principle could alter your BP but I wouldn’t worry too much unless it’s quite a large meal
Feet flat on the floor
- yes, this is important
Lying down but sitting up
- for some purposes docs want lying/sitting/standing but for home measurements do them sitting
Back against the chair
- yes
Don’t cross your legs/ankles
- yes, feet flat on the floor
Only use your left arm
- myth, if there is a significant difference between your left and right arms there is something funky going on with your subclavian arteries
Hand facing upward/downward
- not super important
Keep your arm down/raised
- keep your arm relaxed, ideally resting on a table or desk at 90deg or hanging straight down
Most important is be relaxed, sit still, don’t move your arm, of you get a high reading calm yourself and take it once more then leave it.
- Comment on What is the best take your blood pressure to get the most accurate results? 5 weeks ago:
I have taken my own BP manually, it ain’t easy
- Comment on Is there a new type of currency working to replace currency? 5 weeks ago:
You’re probably talking about the Chinese social credit score, not a replacement for currency but is up and working.
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- Comment on Past performance backs Labor as better economic bet 1 month ago:
Despite their treacherous turn towards neiliberalism in the 80s the ALP remains a competent liberal party, whereas the Liberals are an incompetent boys club only interested in protecting the class interests of their corporate masters.
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- Comment on The Independents challenging political tradition 2 months ago:
In the recent WA state election we saw a pretty substantial shift towards greens and independents especially in rural seats away from nationals and libs. This is in part due seachangers and treechangers but interesting none the less.
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- Comment on What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm? 2 months ago:
Modern guns a extremely precisely engineered devices that are incredibly easy to use, for better or worse. I know modern sporting bows are also but it’s no contest in my opinion.
I’ve shot both, bows as a complete amateur and relatively competent with a rifle. There is no question that a modern gun is way easier to pick up as an amateur and hit what you want to hit and I cannot possibly believe there are anything other than extremely niche uses where a bow is superior.
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- Comment on RBA is lost in the frightening territory of full employment 2 months ago:
You’ve laid out the RBA position fairly enough.
Part of the subtext of this piece is an ongoing debate, historically through the second half of the 20th century and into the GFC it seems that countries that adopt excessively tight monetary and fiscal policy have a lower quality of life long term in a way that is difficult to reverse, whereas the long term consequences of a slower, or even labile, return to target levels of inflation is likely nothing.
This is something that professional economists disagree on and I abandoned economics the second I got my bachelor’s but the historical evidence is compelling.
- Comment on RBA is lost in the frightening territory of full employment 2 months ago:
Because the interest rate has a direct impact on quality of life. Everything else being equal a lower interest rate is better.
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- Comment on Why do I laugh in my dream? 3 months ago:
It’s really common to get weird dreams when quitting smoking. Especially if you’re using nicotine replacement and extra especially if you’re using a patch and not taking it off before bed.
Changes in the amount of nicotine in your blood disrupts REM, it’s more fragmented and this seems to have the effect of more intense dreams.
- Comment on Coles to dramatically reduce number of products to simplify shopper experience 3 months ago:
Reduced the price to the consumer, never even thought about increasing the price to the producer
- Comment on Are there specific terms for the different types of monetary inflation? 3 months ago:
I understand why you are putting them together but I think only the CPI measures inflation, there are other indexes also but inflation has to do with the value of money decreasing over time.
The supply of money is inextricably linked to inflation but an increasing money supply is not inflation, under certain circumstances you could have no, or negative inflation, with increasing money supply. If you had high demand for currency due to large volumes of exports for example.
In short the terms you want are inflation and money supply.
Disclaimer: I dropped out of an undergraduate economics degree about 2/3 through around 15 years ago. I believe this is correct but please anyone correct me if not.
- Comment on It's mildly infuriating when I'm constantly hit with major political issues in this community when I'm here for mild 3 months ago:
Since the mods here are already effectively modding that community perhaps they would be interested.
It definitely needs to be separated, this should be a light hearted community.
Saying that mildlyinfuriating will allow actually infuriating content until another community is made is a bit like saying we will have foodporn allowing hardcore bondage content until hardcore bondage content until a community is made for hardcore bondage. That isn’t what that community is for.
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I don’t think that this is a distraction, yes the policies and actions of these people need scrutiny more so than symbolic things like this.
But
This salute is associated with a historical movement that has been disavowed by all but the most extreme rightists throughout the 20th century, it is both shocking and revealing that mainstream political and business leaders now seem to be embracing it openly.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Looked this up as I optimistically thought it might be an unfortunate still that looked nothing like a nazi salute on video, but nope.
- Comment on It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change 4 months ago:
The US has a weird political culture in a lot of ways. I know France and Germany have fixed term lengths and I certainly don’t get the impression that they have that problem.
- Comment on It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change 4 months ago:
As always I have serious reservations about calling representative government democracy at all, that being said I think that fixed term lengths is a greater step forward in democracy than a longer term length would be a step back. If that’s the compromise I think it’s worthwhile.
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- Comment on Shortage of antipsychotic medication [quetiapine/Seroquel] leaves mental health patients in limbo 4 months ago:
It is a supply chain issue not increased demand and it is not just Seroquel but a huge variety of medications as I said in another comment.
I don’t understand the issue in enough depth but I’ve had discussions with people who do and who think increased local manufacturing is the only way of addressing this. What’s more a government owned pharma corp mandated to ensure steady supply of off-patent essential meds could probably be run at a profit.
- Comment on Feeble defence from ABC confirms abject failure to report Labor accurately 4 months ago:
Labor haven’t been left wing for decades, but they are a vaguely competent liberal party as opposed to the vastly incompetent conservative coalition.
- Comment on how do I show a coworker that I care about her after her mother died? 4 months ago:
This is a genuinely difficult situation to deal with, nothing wrong with asking for advice.