News flash: doctors whose primary business is prescribing don't make the big bucks. The money is in procedures.
And what you're describing is really a pharmacist's job - figuring out how to administer a set of prescriptions in a logical way. Almost nobody who is on more than three medications gets them all from the same doctor. This service (which I think is brilliant, really) takes a set of prescriptions and organizes them into groups of drugs that will not interfere with each other, whose side effects will be more tolerable (e.g., a once-a-day drug causes drowsiness? Give at bedtime.), and then labels each package with a date and time to take it. The logical next step is an app tied into your pharmacy profile that reminds you when a dose is due. It doesn't even have to say what's in there. You could just have it tell you to take the packet labeled "June 28, 2018, 7:00 PM" - and even have you scan the packet to demonstrate that you are picking the correct one (bonus: caretakers of those with mild dementia can use those scanning records to figure out if someone has been missing doses).
Generics are allowed to have anywhere from 80%-125% of the bioavailablity of the brand drug (IIRC, but it's not far off that if I'm wrong).
IF you can get the generic from the same manufacturer every time, this is no big deal - but for certain classes of drugs (antiepileptics are famous for this), you spend a lot of time titrating a drug to the point where it does the job with tolerable side effects. So while it doesn't really matter if you get the brand or a generic, you have to be sure you're getting your product off the same production line every time - and pharmacies switch generic suppliers all the time, buying whatever's cheapest.
I live in a very minor metropolitan area, and I almost never have problems with Amazon delivery. I order, it appears two days later. I think they miss it about once a year, and then typically only by one day.
Free if your time has no value. Every time I have to get a prescription from a physical location, I spend at least five, usually ten, and as much as thirty minutes waiting in line just to pick up one that has already been filled. Drive-through is usually faster, but then one slowpoke with a thousand questions can shut the entire thing down and it ends up being much worse than going inside.
They weren't more useful, but they did have a superior user interface. Graffiti was amazing, easy to learn, and as fast as handwriting. It ran on devices with tiny amounts of processing power, and it even had gestures. A modern version would be something like Swype, but - speaking as someone who used it from the beta days until about six months ago - that was a brilliant product that just wouldn't sell to individuals, because most couldn't really grasp the advantages of it. As of about two years ago, every update made it less effective. Even today, if I show someone SwiftKey or GBoard, neither of which is as good as Swype in its prime (but far better than the standard iOS keyboard, e.g.), the most likely response is "oh, that just looks too hard, I don't really know where the keys are". If you do know where the keys are, you can be a wizard with it.
BCG is hard to find in the US. Vaccination with it will cause a person to have a positive PPD (tuberculosis test), and the rate of TB is low enough that public health policymakers would rather have a very accurate and simple test than vaccinate everyone. The only use for it in the US that I’m aware of is in treatment of bladder cancer.
It’s not that I don’t enjoy riding in a Corvette, it’s that a two-seater is useless for most such rides. Maybe if I’m dropping my car off for service and need to get to work, or coming from home and picking it up later, yeah. But otherwise, I’m probably traveling with my wife, so no go, or with luggage, so also need a decent amount of trunk space. In either case, I’m not willing to pay a premium. A cramped econobox is a better ride than a Corvette if it gets me there with all the people and/or stuff I need.
Yeah, the ideal subject for this study is a broke college student who thinks that a bad cold they once had was the flu. When you’ve had the real thing, you don’t forget the experience. Been there, done that, no wish to repeat it ever again.
Like I said, if it's clear, you can see EVERYTHING. I've seen tons of things from the air that I've never seen from the ground, and OTOH I've been able to recognize things from the air because I knew what the ground looked like. I prefer to drive if I have the time, because you really do get to see so much you would never see from a plane, but flight gives you a perspective you cannot get any other way.
Hah. Yeah, if you live in a big city and they always scheduled you on the cheapest airline so you couldn't build status, then yeah, you were screwed, but I've seen plenty of people in the front cabin who didn't pony up for the seats - they got them with status. If you're top-tier status, I can't imagine any route on which you'd ever do worse than premium economy, and usually better.
In theory, this is actually pretty useful. Global Entry already uses this technique - you get a basic vetting, you get fingerprinted, and you can then use it to skip the lines for immigration and customs. In practice, however, the thing that kills the whole process is the post-immigration, post-customs repeat security line that doesn't have a separate line for Global Entry and Precheck passengers. I'm looking at you, Atlanta. You have a group of people who have already been deemed low-risk, who have used biometrics, and who are experienced enough at international travel to know how it works, and you throw them in with still-drunk teens returning from Cancun.
Scenery depends on weather. If it’s clear, there can be some great stuff out there. I enjoy trying to figure out exactly where we are before looking at the flight map. Totally agree about flying coach, though. If you can afford it, business class is a different world.
I got one at, maybe, 3 AM. Called the issuing office and complained. Person on the other end said, “but what about the CHILD?!?!” Um, I’m in my bed at home. Not on the highway. Put it up on the highway message boards; don’t wake me up. I’m not going to spot them from here.
Of what use is it to identify the doctors’ cars at a medical center? It’s usually trivially simple; they’re the ones parked in spots that say “DOCTORS ONLY” or have their name on them.
Yeah, except California law permits human-powered vehicles on sidewalks. These aren’t human-powered, but the difference isn’t obvious at a glance. God knows I saw a bunch of people using similar vehicles - powered scooters and skateboards - along the Embarcadero during my last visit to SF. That was annoying, although the new habit of hanging a set of Bluetooth speakers in your backpack and blasting your music (presumably there is a law against using earphones while skateboarding/scooting?) for all to “enjoy” was worse. I don’t want people doing that with music I like, let alone all the rest of it.
Nah, their worst case is the one where somebody sits at the bottom of one of the big hills in SF and decides to take one to the top and leave it there.
Well, clearly, the obvious solution is to buy a really cheap motorcycle. They do exist. Or even a golf cart - they are not too expensive, easy to park, and can be made street-legal. Assuming you really are using them on minor roads, the slow speed should not be an issue. Cars can pass you.
Just FYI, I had the same misunderstanding that you did when I first read this. We are not talking about Vespas. These are like Razr scooters - more like a powered skateboard with a steering handle. No seat, no storage.
It’s not about your standards, at that point. It’s about your interest in providing the CDC with samples of novel drug-resistant STD strains for their laboratories.
This is taking an off-topic comment even further off-topic, but I have rented cars in Germany and France. You could drive from Lisbon to Warsaw, no problem, but anything south/east of ES/FR/CH/AT/HU/SK/PL was a no-go.
There is always someone with an agenda who starts excising the information they don't like from school curriculum. Without the government stepping in, that excising would just stand and then those people would cut something else out.
Ah, yes, this never happens in government-run schools.
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News flash: doctors whose primary business is prescribing don't make the big bucks. The money is in procedures.
And what you're describing is really a pharmacist's job - figuring out how to administer a set of prescriptions in a logical way. Almost nobody who is on more than three medications gets them all from the same doctor. This service (which I think is brilliant, really) takes a set of prescriptions and organizes them into groups of drugs that will not interfere with each other, whose side effects will be more tolerable (e.g., a once-a-day drug causes drowsiness? Give at bedtime.), and then labels each package with a date and time to take it. The logical next step is an app tied into your pharmacy profile that reminds you when a dose is due. It doesn't even have to say what's in there. You could just have it tell you to take the packet labeled "June 28, 2018, 7:00 PM" - and even have you scan the packet to demonstrate that you are picking the correct one (bonus: caretakers of those with mild dementia can use those scanning records to figure out if someone has been missing doses).
Generics are allowed to have anywhere from 80%-125% of the bioavailablity of the brand drug (IIRC, but it's not far off that if I'm wrong).
IF you can get the generic from the same manufacturer every time, this is no big deal - but for certain classes of drugs (antiepileptics are famous for this), you spend a lot of time titrating a drug to the point where it does the job with tolerable side effects. So while it doesn't really matter if you get the brand or a generic, you have to be sure you're getting your product off the same production line every time - and pharmacies switch generic suppliers all the time, buying whatever's cheapest.
I live in a very minor metropolitan area, and I almost never have problems with Amazon delivery. I order, it appears two days later. I think they miss it about once a year, and then typically only by one day.
Free if your time has no value. Every time I have to get a prescription from a physical location, I spend at least five, usually ten, and as much as thirty minutes waiting in line just to pick up one that has already been filled. Drive-through is usually faster, but then one slowpoke with a thousand questions can shut the entire thing down and it ends up being much worse than going inside.
They weren't more useful, but they did have a superior user interface. Graffiti was amazing, easy to learn, and as fast as handwriting. It ran on devices with tiny amounts of processing power, and it even had gestures. A modern version would be something like Swype, but - speaking as someone who used it from the beta days until about six months ago - that was a brilliant product that just wouldn't sell to individuals, because most couldn't really grasp the advantages of it. As of about two years ago, every update made it less effective. Even today, if I show someone SwiftKey or GBoard, neither of which is as good as Swype in its prime (but far better than the standard iOS keyboard, e.g.), the most likely response is "oh, that just looks too hard, I don't really know where the keys are". If you do know where the keys are, you can be a wizard with it.
BCG is hard to find in the US. Vaccination with it will cause a person to have a positive PPD (tuberculosis test), and the rate of TB is low enough that public health policymakers would rather have a very accurate and simple test than vaccinate everyone. The only use for it in the US that I’m aware of is in treatment of bladder cancer.
It’s not that I don’t enjoy riding in a Corvette, it’s that a two-seater is useless for most such rides. Maybe if I’m dropping my car off for service and need to get to work, or coming from home and picking it up later, yeah. But otherwise, I’m probably traveling with my wife, so no go, or with luggage, so also need a decent amount of trunk space. In either case, I’m not willing to pay a premium. A cramped econobox is a better ride than a Corvette if it gets me there with all the people and/or stuff I need.
They’re not bad deals when they are newly updated; the aesthetic premium is small. Totally right when they are as old as they are now, though.
Yeah, the ideal subject for this study is a broke college student who thinks that a bad cold they once had was the flu. When you’ve had the real thing, you don’t forget the experience. Been there, done that, no wish to repeat it ever again.
It’s really depopulated. I drove across the state from bottom to top a few years ago, and there are almost no people anywhere.
Like I said, if it's clear, you can see EVERYTHING. I've seen tons of things from the air that I've never seen from the ground, and OTOH I've been able to recognize things from the air because I knew what the ground looked like. I prefer to drive if I have the time, because you really do get to see so much you would never see from a plane, but flight gives you a perspective you cannot get any other way.
Hah. Yeah, if you live in a big city and they always scheduled you on the cheapest airline so you couldn't build status, then yeah, you were screwed, but I've seen plenty of people in the front cabin who didn't pony up for the seats - they got them with status. If you're top-tier status, I can't imagine any route on which you'd ever do worse than premium economy, and usually better.
In theory, this is actually pretty useful. Global Entry already uses this technique - you get a basic vetting, you get fingerprinted, and you can then use it to skip the lines for immigration and customs. In practice, however, the thing that kills the whole process is the post-immigration, post-customs repeat security line that doesn't have a separate line for Global Entry and Precheck passengers. I'm looking at you, Atlanta. You have a group of people who have already been deemed low-risk, who have used biometrics, and who are experienced enough at international travel to know how it works, and you throw them in with still-drunk teens returning from Cancun.
Scenery depends on weather. If it’s clear, there can be some great stuff out there. I enjoy trying to figure out exactly where we are before looking at the flight map. Totally agree about flying coach, though. If you can afford it, business class is a different world.
I was on call. Fuck off.
I got one at, maybe, 3 AM. Called the issuing office and complained. Person on the other end said, “but what about the CHILD?!?!” Um, I’m in my bed at home. Not on the highway. Put it up on the highway message boards; don’t wake me up. I’m not going to spot them from here.
Of what use is it to identify the doctors’ cars at a medical center? It’s usually trivially simple; they’re the ones parked in spots that say “DOCTORS ONLY” or have their name on them.
Yeah, except California law permits human-powered vehicles on sidewalks. These aren’t human-powered, but the difference isn’t obvious at a glance. God knows I saw a bunch of people using similar vehicles - powered scooters and skateboards - along the Embarcadero during my last visit to SF. That was annoying, although the new habit of hanging a set of Bluetooth speakers in your backpack and blasting your music (presumably there is a law against using earphones while skateboarding/scooting?) for all to “enjoy” was worse. I don’t want people doing that with music I like, let alone all the rest of it.
Nah, their worst case is the one where somebody sits at the bottom of one of the big hills in SF and decides to take one to the top and leave it there.
Well, clearly, the obvious solution is to buy a really cheap motorcycle. They do exist. Or even a golf cart - they are not too expensive, easy to park, and can be made street-legal. Assuming you really are using them on minor roads, the slow speed should not be an issue. Cars can pass you.
Just FYI, I had the same misunderstanding that you did when I first read this. We are not talking about Vespas. These are like Razr scooters - more like a powered skateboard with a steering handle. No seat, no storage.
It’s not about your standards, at that point. It’s about your interest in providing the CDC with samples of novel drug-resistant STD strains for their laboratories.
This is taking an off-topic comment even further off-topic, but I have rented cars in Germany and France. You could drive from Lisbon to Warsaw, no problem, but anything south/east of ES/FR/CH/AT/HU/SK/PL was a no-go.
There is always someone with an agenda who starts excising the information they don't like from school curriculum. Without the government stepping in, that excising would just stand and then those people would cut something else out.
Ah, yes, this never happens in government-run schools.
Fun side note: the Rice-a-Roni jingle is set to this tune.