> That must be worst website ever made.

the level of confidence (this is a second time founder after all) to put that on their website gives me confidence that they can make this work

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For some context, the USMLE is taken during medical school. The amount I have learned about actually practicing medicine since graduating is probably an order of magnitude more than everything I learned in medical school! I still learn stuff, all the time, and I’m not just talking about new research.

So, while impressive and clearly part of the future world, we shouldn’t get too far ahead of ourselves with the current models.

Edit: oh I should add that there are more clinically relevant exams that would be more likely to reveal d clinical usefulness, for example “board” exams. These are taken after training, usually before practice. Not knocking LLMs, just ensuring that people don’t misunderstand passing the USMLE as being clinically useful.

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This is a bit of a misunderstanding. CPT codes are part of professional services billing, while DRGs are exclusively for inpatient acute care billing. If you are admitted to a hospital, you’ll probably have to deal with both.

There are lots of things that cause anemia! And someone with unexplained anemia deserves a complete work up (especially with hemoglobin levels in the 4-5 range), including for tick-borne illnesses, especially if they have been in an endemic area. But lots of other things worth checking too, many more dangerous than tick-borne illnesses.

Ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia and torsades are acutely deadly. You have seconds to minutes to get a normal rhythm back.

The charts colors made me feel like they were implying a-fib was the worst rhythm listed. (Though they list the severity in the descriptions in small text)

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It's honestly surprising that more haven't taken the jump and is really shocking that hospitals aren't doing more to retain critical staff.

Abhorrent but not about preventing marriages, at least not directly

Doctors aren’t reimbursed for prescribing medications directly (except chemotherapy infusions). Was the physician selling the medication directly? That’s not commonplace.

Clinicians may financially benefit from not refusing their patients requests and thus losing the patient to another doctor that will acquiesce. But that’s a tricky topic to untangle.

But, if a company directly contributes to decline in civil discourse and harms democracy, and thereby harms the users, then isn't it a government role to step in? And isn't this the governments role even if users can't see the harm at the micro-level of their daily interactions with the company? I guess that is the argument at least. Really its a balance between values: individual freedom and the collective good.

For data, you might look at RSV trends compared to usual. (Usual is winter spike).

https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/nrevss/rsv/state.html#NY

Can’t read actual methods to check if this was adjusted for…