I put the code up on my website, in case anyone was curious:
Reasons to learn programming:
This post brought to you by me spending the last few hours writing a program to turn GPS coordinates into a Maidenhead locator (and vice versa!)
Okay, story time. I was asked for the tale of my laser eye injury, so here you go. I'm fine. Customers were fine. No children were harmed. The only victims were me and Bob's career. https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2024/07/how-i-got-my-laser-eye-injury/
From Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies 11e:
The United States was largely spared [from Thalidomide related tragedy] because of the length of time required for review and the rigorous scrutiny of new drug applications by the FDA.
Am I surprised that Frances Kelsey's role in stopping approval of thalidomide was completely erased in favor of what sounds like nationalistic BS? No. But I'm still disappointed.
Re: recent boost
They say even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but I think it's the wrong frame to look at it.
Can a stopped clock tell you the time? Can you know when a stopped clock is right, without the use of another clock? Can it give you information about the current time?
LLMs are the same way, they are also right sometimes. Can you tell when? Without consulting another more reliable source of information?
Work gripes
And that's not to say those can't be timed! You may want a CBC a certain amount of time after a blood transfusion to see what their H&H and RBC are. I'm sure there are reasons a BMP may be timed. But these are explicitly being put in as "morning draw". These are routines that the doctor is incorrectly marking timed. Stop it. Get some help.
Work gripes
A vanc peak is timed because it needs to be drawn 1 hours after the infusion finished. (Otherwise, it wouldn't be the peak level, now would it?)
A PTT is timed because it needs to be done every 3 hours or something like that.
A cortisol is timed because levels fluctuate during the day. An 0800 cortisol will necessarily be different than a 1500 cortisol.
Your morning CBC and BMP is not timed. It can wait until we get to that side of the hospital.
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