godzillabacter

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Sly Cooper Trilogy +/- Thieves in Time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a surgical puncture to the skull relieve a pressure headache?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No idea unfortunately, but definitely not to release pressure. You don’t get air in your brain, it’s all fluid. Outside of the hospital, all the drains drain to somewhere internal, usually the abdominal cavity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a surgical puncture to the skull relieve a pressure headache?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Am doctor. Outside of very rare and specific causes of headache, no this wouldn’t fix anything, just put you at risk for infections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a surgical puncture to the skull relieve a pressure headache?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Am a doctor, this wasn’t actually a migraine and is not how migraines happen. Shunts are placed for elevated intracranial pressure, which can occur for a number of reasons, and do cause headaches. But it’s a very uncommon cause of headaches and a shunt will not fix your actual migraines or tension headaches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yesit is!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You make physics come alive!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help getting my dad to play Baldur's Gate 3⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC I’ve never given Valve/Steam payment info. Everything is processed through PayPal. But even then, you should be able to gift his account a purchase without him putting in payment methods if you can convince him to use steam at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hopsital⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pharmacist and 4th year medical student here. Medical tests are ordered based upon their statistical ability to alter your likelihood of a diagnosis. No test is perfect in either direction (negative result meaning you don’t have disease or positive result indicating you have disease). Tests cost money, take resources of the healthcare system, and have the potential to be wrong. When a test is wrong, it can result in financial, emotional, and physical harm to an individual.

  Example: you’re an otherwise healthy 34 year old and you feel a little under the weather and are coughing. It’s only been going on a few days, mild fever, but you’re worried and you go to the doctor. Your doctor thinks this is most likely a viral infection, recommends Tylenol and ibuprofen and sends you home. You imply to the doctor you’ll sue if you don’t get antibiotics and a chest x-ray just to be safe. The doctor, rather than argue with you when they have a dozen other patients to see, just orders the stuff and moves on. The chest X ray doesn’t explain your cough, but there’s a small lesion of undetermined significance on the X-ray. Now you need a CT. The CT says “probably a self-limited granuloma from a fungal infection, can’t rule out cancer, correlate with biopsy”. Then you have to go get sedated, put a camera down your throat, and have a pulmonologist take a sample of your lung to see if you have cancer. Maybe you end up with a complication from the sedation or a pneumothorax. Meanwhile the antibiotics you took didn’t really improve your cough but now you have this uncomfortable itchy rash. Are you allergic to the amoxicillin? Or did you just develop the typical rash seen in people who have mononucleosis that also take amoxicillin? Will you get allergy testing for the amoxicillin? Just avoid amoxicillin, an awesome antibiotic, for the rest of your life?

  We are restrictive in our prescribing of medications and tests not because we don’t care about you, not because we want to save the hospital or the insurance company money (in fact the hospital prefers we order more things because they make money on testing). We are restrictive because we want to maximize benefit while minimizing risk, and everything we do has risks and benefits.