The primary MD is receving very little of that $10k. HMOs are a whole industry, where none really existed before, and soak up a fair amount of of that money. Much goes to increased costs of practicing defensive medicine to ward off spurious lawsuits, HMO lawyers, paying for uninsured people, oh yeah nursing homes since not many want to take care of grandma. The primary MDs are far down the trickle.
Health care costs are rising that much per year, but doctors salaries have been dropping about 5%/year too.
It's where the affected person (usually women) usually does injures/affects someone lese (usually a child) nad visits doctors because of this. These are often infamous cases, No one is sure why this little kid is so sick, having daily fevers, until they catch the mother injecting feces into their kid, causing them to be sick..P People with Munchausensoften are very good at faking things and often have SURGERY!! multiple times!!, until someone figures it out. These patients often have a warning sign - something called gridiron abdomen - i.e. it looks like a football(American) feild, from all the scar lines on it.
Doctors typically get about $7 dollars/month for HMOpatients, weather they use the doctors service. Many people sign up with an HMO and then expect Merceded-Benz medicine when they're paying for Yugo medicine. Would the Doctor like to spend more time with you - of course, but since they are now working for the "man" - i.e. the HMO, they arelimited to seeing patients every 5 minutes just to keep pace.
Will hiring more MDs fix the problem- NO! because DOctors are typically working all the time -getting calls from hypochondriacs, and from people who are actually sick. Familly practice and Pediatricians are about the lowest paid MDs around and they start around $80k in Kalifornia - and that's for working around 70 hours a week.
Lesson is if you want a better service - you need to pay for it.
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Probably since the pig sperm provides a concentrated source of mamalian DNA, it will provide a reasonable representation of the effects of space radiation on DNA. Note that DNA in humans is much more than just DNA - it has many regulatory proteins, folding proteins, etc all attached and/or associated with it. It also has areas that are methylated (inactivating) it.
Journalists often protray scientific experiments as if the scientists are sitting around in rooms with low O2 concentrations, smoking crack, concocting these bizarre experiments, when in fact if the journalists took time to understand why they are doing this, everyone might be educated. But hey! sensationalism sells.
Most people have a verticle field of view (FOV) of about 135 degrees, and normal binocular vision is about 180 degrees in the horizontal plane. One of my fellow med school classmates had a brain aneurysm, that after treatment, reduced his FOV to only 90 - so you could sneak up on him from his right side easily.
A 90 degree view is quite limited - try limiting yourself to it - it adds to the paranoid feeling and suspense.
I can use this at public places that I wish to log onto. I don't have to really remember much at all for these. I am smart enough to know of keystroke loggers and obviously use much better passwords for my bank and credit card ONLY at home.
I worked at the National INstitutes of Health (NIH) in Washington, D.C. the "Meca" of medical science research in the world, in the early 90's. The lab I was in did some early stuff on the Human Genome project, and we mainly looked at inherited heart disease - specifically hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
HCM means - hypertrophic=increased, cardio=heart myopathy=sick muscle, so patients have a heart who's muscle becomes so thick , that it interpheres with its normal function, and the people can get conductional abnormalities , go into an arrythymia and suffer a fatal heart attack. HCM is better known as that disease that strikes down, often dead, young athletes, e.g. Hank Gathers basketball player.
Anyway, we tended to use the Amish for our genetic work, to track down the point mutation (code error of a single DNA base) in the DNA. We used them because; 1) they were somewhat inbred, and thus the disease had a higher incidence than the gen population, and 2) THey often had LARGE! closenit families, and 3) they tended to be helpful (everyone!! in the family went and donated their blood). These three things make an ideal setting to do genetic research.
So, yes we did find several different point mutations responsible for the heart disease, helped the families, got published alot, I got into med school and became a surgeon. So thank you Amish.
Interesting side note - we often brought many of them into Wash D.C. to do special heart testing with ultrasound, and so it was interesting talking to them. "That was our first time on an elevator/escalator" - a whole! family told me that. Not a lot of deoderant was used by them (o.k. none.). Their little kids were somewhat shy, but the adults dealt very well at being introduced in to a chaotic looking medical lab. I wish I had spent more time talking to them,it was an interesting chance to see a different point of view on things.
THe HIV virus relies on a cell receptor molecule CCR-5 (cell chemokine receptor -5) that enables the virus entry into the white cell (CD-4 T cells to be precise). Certain people have a variant , or are defficient in that cell surface receptor, so that the HIV virus has nothing to "Grab" onto, and thus does not infect the person.
Curent HIV vaccines rely on the fact that people seem to suffer no ill effects of not having this receptor and are currently a main focus of vaccine research.
You can have a different password for each site if you make an algorithm for your password that involves the website. I.E have a standard password and add a few letters of the sites name, or add game to it if it is a game site, pron if it is that type of site, etc - Be creative and make it easy and it should work for you.
The generally regarded LD50 (lethal dose where 50% of the involved die) for height is about 4-5 stories. I do a lot of trauma orthopaedic surgery, and I have to say that we don't get many people alive who've fallen more than 50 feet. We do get some exceptions, but just remember the good old E=1/2MV^2 rule - survivability falls off sharply at height greater than 50 ft (roughly 40 MPH).
Apparently Everest is littered with all of the people who've died up there. Roughly 25% of the people who atttempt to climb it have died somewhere along the route.
Why - because it allows for mass testing of packages, and therefore bugs that will pop-up in Debian. This will allow for speedier releases, and to continue their continued excellent quality distro.
Yes, I know that Ubuntu isn't exactly Debian, but it's close enough to make my point valid.
You would know that the scientist uses UNFERTILIZED eggs and then removes the nucleus! The scientists then introduce the intended tissue type cell into the egg and shock it it, at which point the cells reproduce. This is akin to multiplying gut/skin/white cells in a cell culture laboratory - which NO religion/poltical groups have problems with.
Please read the article before comenting next time.
Who said you have to use a finger when you hit the finger checker? I foresee a market for a universal fake fingerprint that you could buy or make - like a rubber stamp. It would be easy to recerate and you could leave it by the machine.
People have become bored with the existing types of games. Games like Save - a first person shooter, AND a CC variant, did remarkedly well. The servers are as crowded as they have ever been.
From what I've seen of the video footage - it looks fantastic. City of Heroes by NCSoft can get a little timely to progress, as do most MMORPGs, so I hope that they make leveling a little more speedy.
I give credit to NCSoft for trying to come up with a new genre, or at least variant , of the mostly similar games out there today.
The gaming industry has a higher gross than the movie industry in the USA (I don't know about other countries). Madden NFL football game series has taken in over one Billion dollars ($1,000,000,000)! Spiderman 2 took in 114 million over it's opening weekend, while Halo 2 made more than 125 million in one day!!!
In Australia, video games have now surpassed CD sales. This may be partly due to increased electronic music sales though.
With that much money involved, I'm surprised that it took the media types this long to realize that a TV channel aimed at the gaming audience is worth their while. Hey, I'm happy- I've been gaming for more than 25 years.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. Mechanized stuff - food, music, etc is boring.
Ever listen to a drum machine that plays precisely on time - sounds incredibly boring. Humans change their timing, intensity, etc - this introduces variability, which makes it more interesting and emotional. Drum machines now have been improved so that variability is incorporated into the machines rhythms, making it sound better.
Humans need variability - at least where the senses are involved.
I finally kicked the Diablo II habbit after 4-5 years, and now they want to bring it back again. ARRRGGH!!!. I've been clean and Diablo free for 6 months and now this. NOOOOO!!!
Crap - I bet it's gonna be fantastic - I can already feel my finger clicking away.
The bone is taken from your pelvis - an area that has some redundant bone, that your body won't miss. No breakage occurs there - just a bit of scooping out, which the body re-strengthens afterwards, so healing isn't an issue.
I'm surprised at such a fine granular change in the kernel (2.6.11 -> 2.6.12) with all of these changes - some sound pretty big. This really sounds more like a larger version bump, e.g. 2.8. I guess it's debateable since it's such a grey area in terms of what constitutes a version change.
But all in all, these new improvements sound great. -address space randomization for defence against buffer overflow attacks and remote script kiddies. Reiser 4, Xen suport, software suspend, trusted computing support,latency improvements and improved kernel space notification. - WOW - lot's o' stuff.
the best stuff is always from your own body - this involves a second incision and these can be painful - but it's absolutely the best bone to get something to heal. Also much cheaper than the synthetic stuff
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The primary MD is receving very little of that $10k. HMOs are a whole industry, where none really existed before, and soak up a fair amount of of that money. Much goes to increased costs of practicing defensive medicine to ward off spurious lawsuits, HMO lawyers, paying for uninsured people, oh yeah nursing homes since not many want to take care of grandma. The primary MDs are far down the trickle.
Health care costs are rising that much per year, but doctors salaries have been dropping about 5%/year too.
It's where the affected person (usually women) usually does injures/affects someone lese (usually a child) nad visits doctors because of this. These are often infamous cases, No one is sure why this little kid is so sick, having daily fevers, until they catch the mother injecting feces into their kid, causing them to be sick. .P People with Munchausensoften are very good at faking things and often have SURGERY!! multiple times!!, until someone figures it out. These patients often have a warning sign - something called gridiron abdomen - i.e. it looks like a football(American) feild, from all the scar lines on it.
Will hiring more MDs fix the problem- NO! because DOctors are typically working all the time -getting calls from hypochondriacs, and from people who are actually sick. Familly practice and Pediatricians are about the lowest paid MDs around and they start around $80k in Kalifornia - and that's for working around 70 hours a week.
Lesson is if you want a better service - you need to pay for it.
Journalists often protray scientific experiments as if the scientists are sitting around in rooms with low O2 concentrations, smoking crack, concocting these bizarre experiments, when in fact if the journalists took time to understand why they are doing this, everyone might be educated. But hey! sensationalism sells.
A 90 degree view is quite limited - try limiting yourself to it - it adds to the paranoid feeling and suspense.
I can use this at public places that I wish to log onto. I don't have to really remember much at all for these. I am smart enough to know of keystroke loggers and obviously use much better passwords for my bank and credit card ONLY at home.
HCM means - hypertrophic=increased, cardio=heart myopathy=sick muscle, so patients have a heart who's muscle becomes so thick , that it interpheres with its normal function, and the people can get conductional abnormalities , go into an arrythymia and suffer a fatal heart attack. HCM is better known as that disease that strikes down, often dead, young athletes, e.g. Hank Gathers basketball player.
Anyway, we tended to use the Amish for our genetic work, to track down the point mutation (code error of a single DNA base) in the DNA. We used them because; 1) they were somewhat inbred, and thus the disease had a higher incidence than the gen population, and 2) THey often had LARGE! closenit families, and 3) they tended to be helpful (everyone!! in the family went and donated their blood). These three things make an ideal setting to do genetic research.
So, yes we did find several different point mutations responsible for the heart disease, helped the families, got published alot, I got into med school and became a surgeon. So thank you Amish.
Interesting side note - we often brought many of them into Wash D.C. to do special heart testing with ultrasound, and so it was interesting talking to them. "That was our first time on an elevator/escalator" - a whole! family told me that. Not a lot of deoderant was used by them (o.k. none.). Their little kids were somewhat shy, but the adults dealt very well at being introduced in to a chaotic looking medical lab. I wish I had spent more time talking to them,it was an interesting chance to see a different point of view on things.
Curent HIV vaccines rely on the fact that people seem to suffer no ill effects of not having this receptor and are currently a main focus of vaccine research.
You can have a different password for each site if you make an algorithm for your password that involves the website. I.E have a standard password and add a few letters of the sites name, or add game to it if it is a game site, pron if it is that type of site, etc - Be creative and make it easy and it should work for you.
The generally regarded LD50 (lethal dose where 50% of the involved die) for height is about 4-5 stories. I do a lot of trauma orthopaedic surgery, and I have to say that we don't get many people alive who've fallen more than 50 feet. We do get some exceptions, but just remember the good old E=1/2MV^2 rule - survivability falls off sharply at height greater than 50 ft (roughly 40 MPH).
Apparently Everest is littered with all of the people who've died up there. Roughly 25% of the people who atttempt to climb it have died somewhere along the route.
Yes, I know that Ubuntu isn't exactly Debian, but it's close enough to make my point valid.
You would know that the scientist uses UNFERTILIZED eggs and then removes the nucleus! The scientists then introduce the intended tissue type cell into the egg and shock it it, at which point the cells reproduce. This is akin to multiplying gut/skin/white cells in a cell culture laboratory - which NO religion/poltical groups have problems with.
Please read the article before comenting next time.
Who said you have to use a finger when you hit the finger checker? I foresee a market for a universal fake fingerprint that you could buy or make - like a rubber stamp. It would be easy to recerate and you could leave it by the machine.
People have become bored with the existing types of games. Games like Save - a first person shooter, AND a CC variant, did remarkedly well. The servers are as crowded as they have ever been.
From what I've seen of the video footage - it looks fantastic. City of Heroes by NCSoft can get a little timely to progress, as do most MMORPGs, so I hope that they make leveling a little more speedy.
I give credit to NCSoft for trying to come up with a new genre, or at least variant , of the mostly similar games out there today.
Ask that question (Bread -> toast) to some people who's IQ lies on the wrong side of the bell curve - you'll be amazed at the looks you'll get.
Here you go - take these 13,450 floppy disks with our code on it. "Hope" you can find what you need on them.
Is this a strategy by IBM to spend SCO's funds into the ground, by making their lawyers wade thru mountainsof info?
Spiderman 2 took in 114 million over it's opening weekend, while Halo 2 made more than 125 million in one day!!!
In Australia, video games have now surpassed CD sales. This may be partly due to increased electronic music sales though.
With that much money involved, I'm surprised that it took the media types this long to realize that a TV channel aimed at the gaming audience is worth their while. Hey, I'm happy- I've been gaming for more than 25 years.
Like how many SETI units it can do in an hour, or like how fast it can spell check my Microsoft word document.
Ever listen to a drum machine that plays precisely on time - sounds incredibly boring. Humans change their timing, intensity, etc - this introduces variability, which makes it more interesting and emotional. Drum machines now have been improved so that variability is incorporated into the machines rhythms, making it sound better.
Humans need variability - at least where the senses are involved.
What's next Frantic Ferret or Floppy Frog..
Crap - I bet it's gonna be fantastic - I can already feel my finger clicking away.
The bone is taken from your pelvis - an area that has some redundant bone, that your body won't miss. No breakage occurs there - just a bit of scooping out, which the body re-strengthens afterwards, so healing isn't an issue.
But all in all, these new improvements sound great.
-address space randomization for defence against buffer overflow attacks and remote script kiddies.
Reiser 4, Xen suport, software suspend, trusted computing support,latency improvements and improved kernel space notification. - WOW - lot's o' stuff.
the best stuff is always from your own body - this involves a second incision and these can be painful - but it's absolutely the best bone to get something to heal. Also much cheaper than the synthetic stuff