I only did the $20/month subscription since 9/2025

It was great for about 5 months, amazing in fact. I under utilized it.

For the past month, it’s basically unusable, both Claude code and just Claude chat. 1-2 prompts and I’m out. Last week I prob sent a total of 15 messages to Claude and was out of daily and weekly usage each day.

I get that the $20/month subscription isn’t a money maker for them, and they probably lose money. But the experience of using Claude has been ruined

I graduated from a SUNY school in 2012. At the time, you could still actually go to school and work part time and get through it. Not saying it was easy by any stretch but it was possible. Tuition + living expenses were about $17/year on campus , less expensive housing was available off campus.

Now, even state schools have tuition which is only affordable through family wealth or loans. Going to university is no longer a low stakes choice - if you flunk you’re stuck with that debt forever. Not to say students aren’t responsible for understanding that when signing up, but the stakes are just a lot higher than what it used to be.

I think this kind of behavior in principle would be detectable but in principle with enough concentration in the market, a fraudulent seller could in practice get brokers and jurors to collude with them.

This method of ultrasound treatment is called histotripsy. The underlying mechanism it uses to treat tumors is by focused ultrasound beams that mechanically disrupt cell membranes . It basically turns the lesion into soup. It does not treat the lesion by heating, although there are other techniques that do use ultrasound to ablate tissue with thermal energy.

Where I have seen it used and discussed is in the liver, whether that be metastatic disease to the liver or primary liver tumors.

One challenge is that in the liver you can’t use it for lesions that are near the capsule of the liver. It can also be difficult to keep the ultrasound beam focused on the lesion with respiration, especially if the tumor is small.

It’s an interesting technique and I think more people will use it over time. Whether it will be better than other established techniques like microwave ablation or radioembolization (for liver tumors) remains to be seen. I’m an interventional radiologist.

My view is much more in line with yours and this interpretation.

Another point - I think many people (including other clinicians) have a sense that radiology is a practice of clear cut findings and descriptions, when in practice it’s anything but.

At another level beyond the imaging appearance and clinical interpretation is the fact that our reports are also interpreted at a professional and “political” level.

I can imagine a busy neurosurgeon running a good practice calling the hospital CEO to discuss unforgiving interpretations of post op scans from the AI bot……

The gonadal veins are in a different vascular territory from the prostate. The prostates vascular territory is the anterior division of the internal iliac. The gonadal veins arise directly from the inferior vena cava.

I had not come across this research before it’s interesting because as mentioned above, these organs are in different vascular territories but when venous structures begin to reflux the blood may find other collateral routes through other territories.

I skeptical that this works, but it is really interesting.

How would you handle this? Should I figure out a way to break into smaller files? Is there a better front end component for loading/rendering pages? Should I move to a nextron type app and make sure the files are present locally? Any suggestions appreciated.

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https://raddex.ai

Radiation therapies use similar principles but non-target tissue is still exposed to ionizing radiation which causes collateral damage.

Regardless it’s an interesting treatment.

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Major problem in the US. See it every day at my job.

Also opiates in a short term setting are good meds. Pain control is good and people are able to get moving faster.