Too lazy to look up the specifics but LOTS of drugs bind to opiate receptors. Including most antidepressants. It's an absolutely asinine way to attempt to regulate a drugs. It is fast, handy but it isn't science.
What if there was a way to make this easier to do? A 'replaceable' battery, if you will?
Standard Slashdot trope - but the market has spoken. IF there was a STRONG demand for quick replaceable batteries ala early Blackberries THEN we would see them in the market. And see them successful. Certainly there are (a couple dozen) people who find this useful but not enough to push manufactures to offer it routinely. It's pretty obvious that it CAN be done.
I remember the extra BB batteries. With the expensive and non standard charger. Which was always at home when I really needed it. Or the tiny little battery was in my backpack when I didn't have it with me. Or something.
Now you see the 'Zombie with the USB cord' stomping around airports and pretty much every public space with a wall power outlet. We've gone to placing generic USB chargers on the wall at each bay in the ER because patients kept trying to plug their chargers in while waiting. Which drove the biomed staff bezerk because you're not supposed to plug anything in that hasn't been blessed by Biomed (basically checking for leakage current so patients and staff don't get electrocuted - not such a bad thing to do).
So we have the blessed chargers there for people to use. They're happy (until they get the bill) and Biomed is happy and nobody gets fried.
That pointless story is just to illustrate that the ubiquity of the USB standard and a tiny little cable has pretty much negated the need for the pop in battery.
Yes. For $200K, the CIA could just rifle a couch somewhere or sell Iran a fake surface to air missile. Or something less obvious than creating the month's biggest news story.
Motive? I don't get it. Opportunity? OK, sure, but it's awfully convoluted. Payback? Small coin.
What gets me about cases like this is how LONG it took to find the pharmacy pushing out 20E6 pills or the individual doctor prescribing hundreds of thousands a year. Yes, the do pop up now and again, but these drugs are tightly controlled. I have to fill out a triplicate form to get a couple of morphine ampules for our ambulances.
Does anybody actually LOOK at those forms. If I ordered 5000 ampules would anyone notice?
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That won't work either. If you come to a doctor with your 'own' medical records, there is a very good chance that said doctor will want the 'real' version from the other medical provider. The one that said that you weren't exactly upfront about your alcoholism / addiction / My Little Pony fetish. People lie all of the time. It's a very human condition.
"Too bad" or "sucks to be them"? I can't imagine a situation where you would need MRI data (rather than the text report which your insurance company, their insurance company, the hospital, the radiologist and likely your little sister) has.
If you 'popped' you Arteriovenous malformation or aneurysm or some other brain bubble, we'll do our own CT, thank you very much and ship you to a neurosurgeon who will do their own CT / MRI or whatever and decide what to do. If you're stable enough for the providers to attempt to get the old files, well, that's a good thing, no?
The EMS team picking up your twitching, unconscious body cares not a whit that you've had a dozen MRIs. They're going to check your glucose, give you some Narcan and perhaps some Valium and russle you off to the nearest ER. They don't even much care about your name.
It might be an 'open standard' but it's not a very standard standard. Implementations vary all over the map. I'm not even sure Apple is big enough to push everybody else around. Perhaps.
Things ARE getting better in this respect. The big EHR vendors (and Apple) are trying to make this portal thing work.
I'm not exactly sure that this is a good thing.....
Again, this is pretty overrated as a concept. It's nice to know, but **usually** isn't a deal breaker. If you're that sick that you can't reply, we don't need what meds you get a rash on..
The chances of you ending up in the ER critically ill are much less than the chances that some person or agency will want to use that information in a nefarious fashion.
Nothing is certain, there are always exceptions, Murphy was an optimist.
1password or another password manager does this. I keep my med list / problem list in a file in 1password. Assuming I'm conscious enough to get my finger on the app, I can show medical providers that information. If' I'm that out of it, most of that material is irrelevant.
Even allergies aren't all that important in a life or death situation. Nice to know, but we can work around them.
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If you're going to do that, just use the supplied Lighting to 3 mm adapter.
You could always part with about $10 and get a ... Dongle.
Glad to be of service.
I'll be switching to you when I next upgrade.
Come on baby, light my fire.
Approximately never. That ship has sailed, the horse is out of the barn, the milk is all over the floor.
Embrace the USB cable. 5V forever!
Too lazy to look up the specifics but LOTS of drugs bind to opiate receptors. Including most antidepressants. It's an absolutely asinine way to attempt to regulate a drugs. It is fast, handy but it isn't science.
1) 44 people who had the substance in their system. Correlation is not causation.
2) 44 people is a teeny tiny number. About the same number of people that are killed by toasters.
3) All drugs are poisons (Paracelsus, 1580 or thereabouts).
There's one in every crowd.....
I'm French! How do you think I got this outrageous accent?
What if there was a way to make this easier to do? A 'replaceable' battery, if you will?
Standard Slashdot trope - but the market has spoken. IF there was a STRONG demand for quick replaceable batteries ala early Blackberries THEN we would see them in the market. And see them successful. Certainly there are (a couple dozen) people who find this useful but not enough to push manufactures to offer it routinely. It's pretty obvious that it CAN be done.
I remember the extra BB batteries. With the expensive and non standard charger. Which was always at home when I really needed it. Or the tiny little battery was in my backpack when I didn't have it with me. Or something.
Now you see the 'Zombie with the USB cord' stomping around airports and pretty much every public space with a wall power outlet. We've gone to placing generic USB chargers on the wall at each bay in the ER because patients kept trying to plug their chargers in while waiting. Which drove the biomed staff bezerk because you're not supposed to plug anything in that hasn't been blessed by Biomed (basically checking for leakage current so patients and staff don't get electrocuted - not such a bad thing to do).
So we have the blessed chargers there for people to use. They're happy (until they get the bill) and Biomed is happy and nobody gets fried.
That pointless story is just to illustrate that the ubiquity of the USB standard and a tiny little cable has pretty much negated the need for the pop in battery.
Progress charges on.
The beatings will continue until the morale improves?
Is that what you're getting at?
Looks to be that you've been channeling Donald a bit too hard.
Dilbert? Is that you?
I'd suggest that Hawaiians don't understand that protectionism, nepotism and kleptocracy is the modius operandi of most governments, not just theirs.
You are not special pineapples.
A)bort R)etry F)ail
anyone?
Yes. For $200K, the CIA could just rifle a couch somewhere or sell Iran a fake surface to air missile. Or something less obvious than creating the month's biggest news story.
Motive? I don't get it. Opportunity? OK, sure, but it's awfully convoluted. Payback? Small coin.
What gets me about cases like this is how LONG it took to find the pharmacy pushing out 20E6 pills or the individual doctor prescribing hundreds of thousands a year. Yes, the do pop up now and again, but these drugs are tightly controlled. I have to fill out a triplicate form to get a couple of morphine ampules for our ambulances.
Does anybody actually LOOK at those forms. If I ordered 5000 ampules would anyone notice?
Asking for a friend.....
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Wait, what?
What about vanity plates? If I like the car you're selling do I have to keep the 'ILUVPONY' plate?
I know California is a bit weird, but that seems over the top even for them.
We're reasonably good at putting together hands, elbows, knees and other assorted extremities.
Brains, not so much.
Would you rather be in a cast?
Or a nursing home?
That won't work either. If you come to a doctor with your 'own' medical records, there is a very good chance that said doctor will want the 'real' version from the other medical provider. The one that said that you weren't exactly upfront about your alcoholism / addiction / My Little Pony fetish. People lie all of the time. It's a very human condition.
Don't forget the 'Do Not Resuscitate' tattoo (in the appropriate circumstances, of course).
"Too bad" or "sucks to be them"? I can't imagine a situation where you would need MRI data (rather than the text report which your insurance company, their insurance company, the hospital, the radiologist and likely your little sister) has.
If you 'popped' you Arteriovenous malformation or aneurysm or some other brain bubble, we'll do our own CT, thank you very much and ship you to a neurosurgeon who will do their own CT / MRI or whatever and decide what to do. If you're stable enough for the providers to attempt to get the old files, well, that's a good thing, no?
The EMS team picking up your twitching, unconscious body cares not a whit that you've had a dozen MRIs. They're going to check your glucose, give you some Narcan and perhaps some Valium and russle you off to the nearest ER. They don't even much care about your name.
And what could *possibly* go wrong?
It might be an 'open standard' but it's not a very standard standard. Implementations vary all over the map. I'm not even sure Apple is big enough to push everybody else around. Perhaps.
Things ARE getting better in this respect. The big EHR vendors (and Apple) are trying to make this portal thing work.
I'm not exactly sure that this is a good thing .....
Again, this is pretty overrated as a concept. It's nice to know, but **usually** isn't a deal breaker. If you're that sick that you can't reply, we don't need what meds you get a rash on..
The chances of you ending up in the ER critically ill are much less than the chances that some person or agency will want to use that information in a nefarious fashion.
Nothing is certain, there are always exceptions, Murphy was an optimist.
1password or another password manager does this. I keep my med list / problem list in a file in 1password. Assuming I'm conscious enough to get my finger on the app, I can show medical providers that information. If' I'm that out of it, most of that material is irrelevant.
Even allergies aren't all that important in a life or death situation. Nice to know, but we can work around them.