Chetzemoka

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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

This is not something I had ever thought about before and I am also fascinated.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because I think quality of presentation is not being factored into the assessments you're seeing on that wiki.

I tend to recommend Healthline to the public because it clearly targets a lay audience, and chooses to meet that audience where they live. It's written the way I talk to my patients, and the information is accurate and accessibly easier to read.

Just look at the difference between the pages on hypertension from Healthline and MedlinePlus:

https://www.healthline.com/health/high-blood-pressure-hypertension

https://medlineplus.gov/highbloodpressure.html

The details and accuracy of the information is not different. But the way Healthline presents it is so much more accessible.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago

Same. Years ago my grandfather received a call from a guy claiming to be my younger, male cousin saying he was in jail for something and needed bail. Luckily (?), my grandfather was an asshole and told him to call his mother.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The best thing to happen from WebMD is we got a bunch of actual medical providers like Mayo Clinic, University of Maryland, Merck Manual that went, "GAH! No!!" and made actually informative, updated medical websites.

Healthline, kids. Healthline is where we go for our medical information.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just did. Won our vote Wednesday night 💪

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I am so fucking here for the crossover

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

no illicit drugs were present

I'm deeply afraid that this might have turned out differently if she had even something as simple as cannabis in her system.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Republican obstruction and wanton destruction is responsible for the lack of progress. Refusing Medicaid expansions and then overturning the individual mandate is what gutted the plan.

And sure you could jump right into single payer without any incremental change. But you're going to put the 400,000 Americans currently working in the health insurance industry out of work, if you do that. Which is not a small consideration. (That's per a CBO analysis of the feasibility of single payer, which does conclude it would save money, but it will require a massive work transition.)

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/congressional-budget-office-scores-medicare-for-all-universal-coverage-less-spending

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

I mean, those uniforms are unironically amazing.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I really appreciate the effort you put into this. It's so much fun to read these posts and learn about owls I would never have known existed otherwise. Like, somehow I could always imagine like sparrows being this diverse, but it would never have occurred to me that owls are as well.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah that camouflage is pretty amazing. And I've been really surprised how many of these owls you're posting are in the tropics?! My whole life, I thought of owls as cold weather birds for some reason.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

That was during wartime and it was a court martial. Courts martial are still notoriously harsher than civil courts today.

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