Jeez what’s your resting resp rate?

pH 6.9? You need some

This review of one of the most beautiful places in Kyoto - a 1300 year old Shinto temple complex - is merciless.

That’s pretty much it.

That seems to have been replaced with signs requesting my politeness in all I do. Which is generally my default anyway so I feel quite at home.

Mildly air conditioned car

We need more expectation-setting signs like this

This is what social media is meant to be about.

Surviving Sepsis 2026 is here & it's even more loony tunes than I was expecting.

They're promoting pre-hospital ABX & preemptive broad-spectrum IV antibiotics for intubated patients.

This insane fever dream is an antimicrobial stewardship nightmare.

Embarrassment for SCCM. #EMIMCC

Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol

White cell counts are automated so presumably shouldn’t be subjected to human bias. Unless they were completely made up.

<em>Emergency Medicine Australasia</em> | ACEM Journal | Wiley Online Library Vital signs are often considered objective indicators of patients' health. Our study found evidence for terminal digit and boundary biases in the vital signs data of a tertiary hospital. This finding...

Wasn’t that human digit preference though? It’s seen throughout vital sign data too: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Economic and Health Consequences of Selling a Kidney in India Context Many countries have a shortage of kidneys available for transplantation. Paying people to donate kidneys is often proposed or justified as a way to benefit recipients by increasing the supply ...

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Forty-seven participants noted that their spouse had also sold a kidney. The other 221 married participants (159 female participants and 62 male participants) were asked why they sold rather than their spouse. The most common responses by female participants were that their husbands were the breadwinners (30%) or were ill (28%). The most common responses by male participants were that they sold volunt@ ily (52%) or that their wives were ill or pregnant (19%). Two female participants stated that they had been forced by their husbands to sell a kidney.

here’s a sentence stated matter-of-factly that is sure to ruin your day:

Plus, I’m foreign. Norwegians seem nicer than ICE.

There’s just something about their special blend of egg whites and oil that make them the world’s pre-eminent condiment-based clinic.

I don’t know why I’d never thought to call it that. Now I will always call it that. Thank you!

Yeah I’d choose Norway over bankruptcy.

Guess I’m catching a plane to Norway when my aorta dissects.

Surely not? Just look at the source of their data!

It’s about 1 in 4 from the MET NZ study: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27246940/
Not so much EoLC but treatment limitation as one of the MET outcomes. The 30 day mortality was 20%. MET criteria are inadvertent dying detection tools.

bbc news story about a 3rd shark attack in 2 days at “popular swimming spot Shark Beach”

cool name why’s it called that

That graph is incompatible with my 23 year experience of living in Welly which, coincidentally , @caulimovirus.bsky.social and I were just discussing in person. How the hell is Auckland _more_ windier?! Or is it just more windier 10m above the ground?

I’ve got a strong suspicion that WBC data ain’t random.

This is why nothing smells bad

God no. I haven’t even told them there are other causes of shock

*other micro-organisms are available

If you’re not yet calling streptococcal sepsis ‘strepsis’, can you even spell portmanteau?

We have laparoscopic cholecystectomy capability here as well.

"generate a map of the USA with each state named"