Give the patient a small dose and wait two weeks for adverse reactions to appear.
Do you know what kind of drugs make up chemotherapy? Most of them are simply nasty poisons (*) that just happen to be a bit more toxic to cancerous cells than to the rest of your body. If you're starting chemo and don't have any adverse reactions after the first dose, someone gave you the wrong drugs.
(*) The person who invented chemotherapy got the idea from observing the victims of chemical warfare agents during WW1. Therapeutic mustard agent is still used today for treating kinds of cancer.
From Wikipedia: "The closure of these valves was a violation of a key NRC rule, according to which the reactor must be shut down if all auxiliary feed pumps are closed for maintenance."
So the stuff done at TMI wasn't quite as bizarre as that at Chernobyl, but they still played fast and loose with reactor operating procedures.
Also, they could have instructed the reactor drivers that a light that indicates whether a solenoid is energized does not say anything about the state of the valve that's actuated by said solenoid. Just like having a proper ECG from a patient doesn't say anything about whether his heart is actually pumping blood.
I've done similar things ever since I went in for an operation where they started the incision on the wrong side then decided they'd just go with it and tunnel across my abdomen instead of starting over in the right spot.
Well, they did the right (i.e. least risky) thing. Every hole cut into the bodys line of defense against the hostile exterior is a possible site for an infection, hence you want to keep the number and size of the holes as low as possible.
Doctors and medical workers must be forced to use checklists.
They already do, as far as I know. And checklist still leave tons of possible modes of failure. Just think about having the right checklist, but the wrong patient. For even more fun, assume that the right and the wrong patient have the same name, by some weird coincidence.
An amendment eliminating corporate personhood would, by contrast, have to pass over the now unfettered opposition of every monied interest that there is.
Just make a distinction between "natual person" and "legal person" already, like the rest of the civilized world. The former has all rights of the latter, plus some additional ones (voting rights! You really want a fscking corporation to vote?), while the latter has all the rights necessary to do business (contracts, etc).
Sure, they have nearly infinite amounts of money, are essentially immortal, require no sleep, clean water, fresh air, or safe food, and have two political parties and 60% of the Supreme Court at their beck and call. But, could that have ever made up for the pain they must have felt knowing that they couldn't fully exercise their 1st Amendment Rights?
First amendment? You're thinking way too short. Wait until corporations want to exercise their second amendment rights... more than they do already (don't think "army for hire", think "army working solely for the corporation").
That's all true but I can't act surprised when they name their lander the Phoenix and some people are disappointed when it looks like it isn't going to rise from the dead.:)
Phoenixes don't tolerate low temperatures all that well.
That would boil down to the president prosecuting himself, according to the unitary executive theory. (Never forget that prosecutors are part of the executive branch.)
If the problem is snake oil salesmen, as the writer I responded said, criminal punishment does solve that.
No, it doesn't. It never did. It's _maybe_ going to keep one snake oil salesman from doing more damage than he already did for a while, but it won't keep the legion of others from doing their dirty business.
Besides, did you ever look at some trials and lawsuits involving snake oil? They drag out forever, and time is working for the culprit and against the victims.
If the problem is compensation for the victims - sure they would be compensated for their losses.
By whom? By the snake oil salesman with a net worth of, um, less than a hundred bucks? You can't get water from a rock. And how do compensate dead people? What's a pair of limbs or eyes worth to you?
That's why we live in America, its what the market will bear. If 18K is too much, you do the product research and show them why your $100 Wii Board, with your $200 Wii and whatever customized app you come up with costs, and why the hospitals should go with your system instead. Its how the free market works.
What, no ranting against the FDA? The medical devices market isn't all that free to begin with, remember?
They discounted it to $8k when they billed insurance companies, but if you didn't have insurance, they'd sell it to you for $3k. So basically they get an extra $5k profit if you happen to have insurance.
Hm, isn't that supposed to be the other way round? I'd argue that an insurance company has much more motivation and leverage to get the price down than an individual. That's why for most medical services, you pay twice (or more) as much out of pocket than the insurance company would if you were insured.
Everything you wrote sounds like a reason to dissolve the FDA (and perhaps a chunk of the legal system) and start over.
You mean "Start over with snake oil, patent medicines, radioactive sports drinks and toothpaste, miracle healers and other kinds of quackery, plus a couple deaths due to drugs that have been tampered with, and a whole new bunch of thalidomide cripples just to be sure"?
Hey, if a scalpel packer sneezes on a scalpel being packed, then the surgeon takes the scalpel and sticks it in somebody's liver without cleaning it, who's at fault? The scalpel packer according to your retard logic!
Yes. Do you really think that disposable scalpels/needles/etc are disinfected by the hospital before they're used? No, they're disinfected before they're packaged and/or disinfected after they're packaged, but before they're sold.
If you don't understand the processes involved in making and selling a medical product, you just sound ridiculous when you're claiming that they are stupid.
My point is that expensive certification could still prove to be substantially cheaper than a purpose-built medical device.
No toy company wants to deal with the shit that medical device regulating agencies (not the plural) can and will send their way. Not for any amount of money.
(Medical device engineer here, with a crapload of shit from $THREE_LETTER_AGENCY coming his way.)
So they took the basic idea of a CRT and replaced the electron beam with a laser and a moving mirror?
Sounds interesting, but I guess this will bring back all of the problems of a CRT (sharpness isn't guaranteed, image may flicker depending on the refresh rate, etc), plus a few new problems (mechanical parts that might be subject to wear, etc).
Slashdot Mirror
And why can't we prohibit a cause of action for patent infringement where there is no net gain to society?
What are you, some kind of communist?
Prison is also supposed to rehabilitate.
And even if you think this is nonsense: Prison should under no circumstances produce better criminals.
... magic missiles do.
Give the patient a small dose and wait two weeks for adverse reactions to appear.
Do you know what kind of drugs make up chemotherapy? Most of them are simply nasty poisons (*) that just happen to be a bit more toxic to cancerous cells than to the rest of your body. If you're starting chemo and don't have any adverse reactions after the first dose, someone gave you the wrong drugs.
(*) The person who invented chemotherapy got the idea from observing the victims of chemical warfare agents during WW1. Therapeutic mustard agent is still used today for treating kinds of cancer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_mustard
Yes, like, um, people dying from cancer that could have been saved by being treated in time. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
but we sometimes shut down a billion-dollar accelerator center when there are questions about safety equipment.
How many people die if your accelerator center is shut down?
From Wikipedia: "The closure of these valves was a violation of a key NRC rule, according to which the reactor must be shut down if all auxiliary feed pumps are closed for maintenance."
So the stuff done at TMI wasn't quite as bizarre as that at Chernobyl, but they still played fast and loose with reactor operating procedures.
Also, they could have instructed the reactor drivers that a light that indicates whether a solenoid is energized does not say anything about the state of the valve that's actuated by said solenoid. Just like having a proper ECG from a patient doesn't say anything about whether his heart is actually pumping blood.
Well, they did the right (i.e. least risky) thing. Every hole cut into the bodys line of defense against the hostile exterior is a possible site for an infection, hence you want to keep the number and size of the holes as low as possible.
Doctors and medical workers must be forced to use checklists.
They already do, as far as I know. And checklist still leave tons of possible modes of failure. Just think about having the right checklist, but the wrong patient. For even more fun, assume that the right and the wrong patient have the same name, by some weird coincidence.
Just make a distinction between "natual person" and "legal person" already, like the rest of the civilized world. The former has all rights of the latter, plus some additional ones (voting rights! You really want a fscking corporation to vote?), while the latter has all the rights necessary to do business (contracts, etc).
Sure, they have nearly infinite amounts of money, are essentially immortal, require no sleep, clean water, fresh air, or safe food, and have two political parties and 60% of the Supreme Court at their beck and call. But, could that have ever made up for the pain they must have felt knowing that they couldn't fully exercise their 1st Amendment Rights?
First amendment? You're thinking way too short. Wait until corporations want to exercise their second amendment rights ... more than they do already (don't think "army for hire", think "army working solely for the corporation").
Phoenixes don't tolerate low temperatures all that well.
That would boil down to the president prosecuting himself, according to the unitary executive theory. (Never forget that prosecutors are part of the executive branch.)
No, it doesn't. It never did. It's _maybe_ going to keep one snake oil salesman from doing more damage than he already did for a while, but it won't keep the legion of others from doing their dirty business.
Besides, did you ever look at some trials and lawsuits involving snake oil? They drag out forever, and time is working for the culprit and against the victims.
If the problem is compensation for the victims - sure they would be compensated for their losses.
By whom? By the snake oil salesman with a net worth of, um, less than a hundred bucks? You can't get water from a rock. And how do compensate dead people? What's a pair of limbs or eyes worth to you?
I'm sure all of their victims (or their survivors) will be truly _thrilled_.
What, no ranting against the FDA? The medical devices market isn't all that free to begin with, remember?
They discounted it to $8k when they billed insurance companies, but if you didn't have insurance, they'd sell it to you for $3k. So basically they get an extra $5k profit if you happen to have insurance. Hm, isn't that supposed to be the other way round? I'd argue that an insurance company has much more motivation and leverage to get the price down than an individual. That's why for most medical services, you pay twice (or more) as much out of pocket than the insurance company would if you were insured.
Everything you wrote sounds like a reason to dissolve the FDA (and perhaps a chunk of the legal system) and start over.
You mean "Start over with snake oil, patent medicines, radioactive sports drinks and toothpaste, miracle healers and other kinds of quackery, plus a couple deaths due to drugs that have been tampered with, and a whole new bunch of thalidomide cripples just to be sure"?
No thanks, I'll pass.
Yes. Do you really think that disposable scalpels/needles/etc are disinfected by the hospital before they're used? No, they're disinfected before they're packaged and/or disinfected after they're packaged, but before they're sold.
If you don't understand the processes involved in making and selling a medical product, you just sound ridiculous when you're claiming that they are stupid.
No toy company wants to deal with the shit that medical device regulating agencies (not the plural) can and will send their way. Not for any amount of money.
(Medical device engineer here, with a crapload of shit from $THREE_LETTER_AGENCY coming his way.)
Like I said in the title, I know zip about how all this works, but once you've got some water sloshing around on your planet, what else do you need?
Carbon and Nitrogen. And an energy source. And time, a billion years or so should do the trick.
Aren't border crossings an exception to the Fourth Amendment,
Yeah. Kind of like "bed without sheets" is an exception to "bed".
Mod up for kickass game reference. One of my favorites on the Commodore 64.
Seconded. It was Pokemon ... decades before Pokemon. And it was probably as good as games got on the old breadbox.
No?
No deal, then.
So they took the basic idea of a CRT and replaced the electron beam with a laser and a moving mirror?
Sounds interesting, but I guess this will bring back all of the problems of a CRT (sharpness isn't guaranteed, image may flicker depending on the refresh rate, etc), plus a few new problems (mechanical parts that might be subject to wear, etc).
Riding your bike in a sane manner doesn't guarantee that all the other riders and drivers on the road behave in a sane manner. That's the problem.