You might have hit something there. Here as a junior doctor in the NHS I can only prescribe antibiotics to an inpatient according to local guidelines as approved by our consultant microbiologists.
Our full national formulary of antibiotics contains much of the same as the US national formulary, but each Healthcare Trust (PCT) limits its own formulary (available licensed drugs) to a small subset of the full national formulary. These decisions are again made by microbiologists and economists to regulate costs and effectiveness, which is why the latest-and-greatest Pfizer/GSK/etc. creations won't be immediately available in any hospital until testing and validation - is that new penicillin really that much better than the one we've used for the past 30 years, or is the product literature just marketing fluff?
Add to that our ward pharmacists vigilently checking each new prescription to ensure compliance with local guidelines, and the need for consultant microbiologist approval for any of the potent broad-spectrum agents (Ciprofloxacin, Meropenem, Tazobactam etc...) and you may have a reason for differences between our two systems - one top heavy and working for cost-effectiveness and the other top heavy and working for profit-maximisation.
This is clearly the wrong approach, since a fundamental element of civilization is reducing or eliminating any individual's ability to externalize their costs onto others
Where the hell did you get this idea? A fundamental element of the civilisation I live in is to increasingly look after our fellow man.
Just because your country has its priorities arse-backwards - Kill brown people first, get fellow countrymen healthy second.
Mod me down to -1 for this but as an educator I feel it's necessary. Your entire post is very cogent and I agree with all of its points.
loose = not tight.
I think you mean lose. As in lost.
It's a long 'o', which I'm sure in some scandinavian language would have some sort of diacritic, but in English we rely on spelling tradition. Please, it's lose, not loose.
axample. I'm sure you've just made a typo.
villify - only one l - vilify.
Your point is very good thought. I don't mean these in a rude way, I just always think there's room for personal improvement.
The proverbial book needs to be thrown at people like this. These are precisely the sort of people we should be making an example of.
*BEEP* Wrong.
'Throwing the book at' and 'making examples of' people are exactly what your precious Bill of Rights was dead set against. Ever heard of a ban on 'Cruel and Unusual' punishments?
If he's the only person to receive 60 years in high security for his crime, I find it hard how you could justify his punishment as anything other than 'Cruel and Unusual'.
Hate to burst your bubble and effectively ruin your philosophy, but assumption #1 is incorrect.
Phenotypes within a population can be seen to be continuous (shades of grey hair, normal distributions of height and intelligence), but in reality the genes and gene networks underlying these phenotypes are discontinuous entities. The gene for blue vision is entirely different from that for red vision. The blue cone gene will never make a red pigment protein. It is these dicontinuous entities which are inherited. And they are inherited in a discontinous fashion. You are not a 'mixing' of your parental genes - you have taken approximately 50% of your individual polymorphisms from each parent, but these two things are not the same.
On the grander scale, you are mistaking the apparently continuous swathe of evolutionary history for discrete, punctuated equilibrium events extended over geologic time.
>>...even after a full day of tinkering with various network wizards
Wizards? This suggests that the author does not know how to get to the properties of whatever network protocol (I'm assuming TCP/IP) he's using and configure them directly.
Yes yes, of course that's what grandma and grandpa would do as well. You fucking douche.
>>Cancer treatments are different nowadays, and less severely damaging to the body than they were, not being a doctor myself, is my assumption correct?
You are indeed correct. There's even this new one involving a highly effective vaccine against the main causative agent. Perhaps you've heard of it?
I am a doctor, which means I ACTUALLY SEE CERVICAL CANCER PATIENTS. I agree 100% with the AC poster above.
Just last week we had in a 50 year old woman who was diagnosed with a locally spread cervical cancer in her 20s. Very unusual case, but that's not the point. This woman had undergone extensive abdominal surgery and aggressive 1970s-style radiotherapy to her lower abdomen.
She shits into a bag on her side, and has lost both of her legs beneath the knees due to side effects of the radiotherapy on her pelvic vessels. She is infertile and has never had children.
With 90%+ certainty her lifetime of misery was A DIRECT RESULT of having sex with a man carrying the HPV virus in his semen. Perhaps only once. I never asked.
Get a FUCKING CLUE you goddamned prudish religious freaks. These are real problems we're talking about here.
Yeah, that's right - all cancer researchers are only out for a quick buck and fuck every possible cure that gets in their way.
Yeah, cancer researchers are holding back the true cures until we pay them enough.
Yeah, cancer research laboratories don't employ people suffering from cancer themselves. It's only the lay public that suffer from cancer, not scientists and stuff.
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You might have hit something there. Here as a junior doctor in the NHS I can only prescribe antibiotics to an inpatient according to local guidelines as approved by our consultant microbiologists.
Our full national formulary of antibiotics contains much of the same as the US national formulary, but each Healthcare Trust (PCT) limits its own formulary (available licensed drugs) to a small subset of the full national formulary. These decisions are again made by microbiologists and economists to regulate costs and effectiveness, which is why the latest-and-greatest Pfizer/GSK/etc. creations won't be immediately available in any hospital until testing and validation - is that new penicillin really that much better than the one we've used for the past 30 years, or is the product literature just marketing fluff?
Add to that our ward pharmacists vigilently checking each new prescription to ensure compliance with local guidelines, and the need for consultant microbiologist approval for any of the potent broad-spectrum agents (Ciprofloxacin, Meropenem, Tazobactam etc...) and you may have a reason for differences between our two systems - one top heavy and working for cost-effectiveness and the other top heavy and working for profit-maximisation.
-Nano.
I rarely do ad hominem attacks, but here goes:
If you think teachers are either well paid, or have any freedom over what they teach in the classroom, you are a misinformed douche.
This is clearly the wrong approach, since a fundamental element of civilization is reducing or eliminating any individual's ability to externalize their costs onto others
Where the hell did you get this idea? A fundamental element of the civilisation I live in is to increasingly look after our fellow man.
Just because your country has its priorities arse-backwards - Kill brown people first, get fellow countrymen healthy second.
Mod me down to -1 for this but as an educator I feel it's necessary. Your entire post is very cogent and I agree with all of its points.
loose = not tight.
I think you mean lose. As in lost.
It's a long 'o', which I'm sure in some scandinavian language would have some sort of diacritic, but in English we rely on spelling tradition. Please, it's lose, not loose.
axample. I'm sure you've just made a typo.
villify - only one l - vilify.
Your point is very good thought. I don't mean these in a rude way, I just always think there's room for personal improvement.
Don't forget, those 500kcal are only the direct amount of work you're performing.
Factor in the fact that your muscles are only approx. 40% energy efficient.
and that your metabolic level remains raised for a good few hours after intense exercise. Moreso if you undertake a regular exercise regimen.
And we're talking about a bit more than just the original 500kcal that went into the machine.
The proverbial book needs to be thrown at people like this. These are precisely the sort of people we should be making an example of.
*BEEP* Wrong.
'Throwing the book at' and 'making examples of' people are exactly what your precious Bill of Rights was dead set against. Ever heard of a ban on 'Cruel and Unusual' punishments?
If he's the only person to receive 60 years in high security for his crime, I find it hard how you could justify his punishment as anything other than 'Cruel and Unusual'.
I do, and I'm an adult living in Britain.
So again, why should I be denied the ability to subject myself this 'gory and nasty' game?
Give it 10 years - it'll look like Wolfenstein.
Hate to burst your bubble and effectively ruin your philosophy, but assumption #1 is incorrect.
Phenotypes within a population can be seen to be continuous (shades of grey hair, normal distributions of height and intelligence), but in reality the genes and gene networks underlying these phenotypes are discontinuous entities. The gene for blue vision is entirely different from that for red vision. The blue cone gene will never make a red pigment protein. It is these dicontinuous entities which are inherited. And they are inherited in a discontinous fashion. You are not a 'mixing' of your parental genes - you have taken approximately 50% of your individual polymorphisms from each parent, but these two things are not the same.
On the grander scale, you are mistaking the apparently continuous swathe of evolutionary history for discrete, punctuated equilibrium events extended over geologic time.
Better luck next time. Go read some Dawkins.
Please write this up and send it to her lawyers, congressman, the judge, whoever.
Your analysis is astute and eloquent - please make sure the right people see it now.
Never mind the fact that existing local anaesthetic molecules also work by blocking the inner aspect of the voltage gated sodium channel.
Brawndo's got what plants crave!
Your really think there have only been 5 findings in the history of hominid evolution?
You are a funny little man, aren't you?
Taking this submitter's comment in another light, it's actually an astute critique of one of the news report's main arguments against direct descent.
News report: H. erectus and habilis couldn'tve lived side-by-side because one would outcompete the other.
Submitter: Monkeys live alongside species with superior intelligence, but they haven't been 'outcompeted'.
So I'd give subby +1, insightful.
I know exactly what you mean. Where the FUCK is Bristol's underground/light rail/tram system?
This is meant to be the 21st century after all...
I hope you find something earth shattering.
And then find out quite how equitable the deal your signing really is.
You're going to get roasted. Grow up little boy.
Enlisting Arabic speakers != Encouraging troops to learn Arabic
Why should it make a difference how much her legal defence cost, if she won in the end?
Here in the UK, the winner gets their legal fees reimbursed. And that's all that matters - that you were proven right in a court of law.
Hence the loser is punished for continuing to drive the case forward to court, when there are innumerable ways of settling prior to this time.
Also FYI, we don't have 'deals' here between prosecutors and persecuted to 'plead' for lower crimes in return for lower charges.
>>...even after a full day of tinkering with various network wizards
Wizards? This suggests that the author does not know how to get to the properties of whatever network protocol (I'm assuming TCP/IP) he's using and configure them directly.
Yes yes, of course that's what grandma and grandpa would do as well. You fucking douche.
Well, the jury's still out on that one. The virus is present in skin as you say, but it's also detectable in semen.
Either way it almost certainly requires penetrative sex to spread.
>>Cancer treatments are different nowadays, and less severely damaging to the body than they were, not being a doctor myself, is my assumption correct?
You are indeed correct. There's even this new one involving a highly effective vaccine against the main causative agent. Perhaps you've heard of it?
And how economical would it be to run a screening programme for every sexually active adult female in the US for subtype-specific HPV DNA?
And then vaccinate them.
Dipshit.
I am a doctor, which means I ACTUALLY SEE CERVICAL CANCER PATIENTS. I agree 100% with the AC poster above.
Just last week we had in a 50 year old woman who was diagnosed with a locally spread cervical cancer in her 20s. Very unusual case, but that's not the point. This woman had undergone extensive abdominal surgery and aggressive 1970s-style radiotherapy to her lower abdomen.
She shits into a bag on her side, and has lost both of her legs beneath the knees due to side effects of the radiotherapy on her pelvic vessels. She is infertile and has never had children.
With 90%+ certainty her lifetime of misery was A DIRECT RESULT of having sex with a man carrying the HPV virus in his semen. Perhaps only once. I never asked.
Get a FUCKING CLUE you goddamned prudish religious freaks. These are real problems we're talking about here.
Can someone make sure Jobs reads this reply.
At least he'd have a laugh. Maybe it would spur him on to fight even harder.
Where the fuck do you get your cynicism from?
Yeah, that's right - all cancer researchers are only out for a quick buck and fuck every possible cure that gets in their way.
Yeah, cancer researchers are holding back the true cures until we pay them enough.
Yeah, cancer research laboratories don't employ people suffering from cancer themselves. It's only the lay public that suffer from cancer, not scientists and stuff.
You fucking retard.
And then where's the inherant harm in linking the one national drivers licence database with the social security database.
And then linking that to criminal databases.
And then linking that with the passport database.
And then linking that with the IRS database.
In fact, why don't we just link every database together and implant you with a chip so we can read it at any time?
Why not? I mean, you don't have anything to hide......do you citizen?