The way this really works in medicine is that they determine the solution that will result in the greatest number of quality person years. So if you have an older person with lots of health problems and a younger person who only has the current problem, obviously saving the younger, healthier one will have the greatest positive impact. This got used during COVID with the ventilators and is a consideration for eligibility for donor organs.

Why not both?

These were planted alongside trails and on the medians of the road. This is just down the road from my house and the land these trees were on is not useful for literally anything besides trees.

I’ve spent enough time around religious wingnuts to know that some of them just do it out of hate and disgust. It’s not always self-disgust. Sometimes they just buy into the propaganda so deeply that any deviance is simply abhorrent and must be eradicated.

I have personally dragged a couple of people out of that mindset and they are very straight, so it was never a self-hatred thing, just a brainwashing thing.

The bit right after that talks about how that was his MO for assaulting gay men and he kept a “profanity-laced journal” about his actions.

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You do not have a good understanding of menstruation and gynecology if you think that’s always the case. There are so many variations of irregular menstruation that trying to exclude data based on irregularities would be very difficult or get rid of a lot of legitimate irregular data.

Irregular menstrual cycles are very common and happen for a lot of different reasons. Also, there are different kinds of “regular” periods. Someone could be said to have regular periods even if they happen on shorter or longer cycles than the typical 28-30 days provided that it’s a consistent pattern without significant deviation for that person.

Write it down on paper or put it in a word document or excel spreadsheet (or FOSS equivalent if you don’t have Office 365).

From a medical perspective, a handwritten journal with dates and notes about the amount/consistency of the flow as well as associated symptoms would be the most useful. Having irregular periods that last for 3 days with very heavy bleeding would have a very different diagnostic approach than irregular periods that last 3 to 5 days with normal bleeding and horrible cramps.

I blame my tech background for being intensely suspicious of pretty much all AI. The AI developed by MIT for early detection of preliminary stages of breast cancer on mammograms that was trained on an extremely rigorously vetted and sanitized data set is probably the only breed of AI I would actually trust in medicine.

I once had ideas about creating a learning algorithm (not quite as complex as AI and not a black box) that uses data from medical professional input to generate suggestions for triage and protocols in emergency medicine. My idea was to feed it the triage notes, vitals, labs, diagnosis, and disposition with patient demographics (and NO PII) to create a statistical model that would look at the triage notes and the intake vitals to make a suggestion for triage level and empiric labs/testing to expedite care.

Obviously, the triage nurse (or any other staff member, really) could override it and input a higher level of triage because there’s no good way to reliably teach a machine gestalt or heuristics. A really experienced healthcare provider will almost always have a good sense for which patients are currently just compensating and will be crumping shortly. I just think having a statistical model that puts in empiric orders to get stuff started while the patient is still waiting to be brought back could expedite care a lot.

The thing that made me think of this is the fact that every time I have seen a kiddo come through the ER with vision changes that were not fixed by glasses, they had some kind of intracranial mass, and it would just make stuff go so much faster if the head CT was already done by the time the physician could actually see the patient. (Or patients that are on the border of meeting SIRS criteria having a bunch of labs already done.)

I need to find a way to set up email alerts or something when there’s updates on this kind of stuff. Since I’m looking at emergency med or primary care, this would be super relevant to my future practice.

I would assume that you would understand that this kind of protest works better when applied without exception, even when there is acknowledgement that there are exceptions among the people impacted. Hopefully, those men who are allies in this would be understanding of the fact that if these women made exceptions all over the place, the power of the protest would be significantly diminished. It does require a reciprocal sacrifice on the part of men that support women in this endeavor, but that should not be thought of as an offensive or undue burden.

This is tied into the problem that the left has with a lot of protests and campaigns. The real/best answers are always nuanced, but if you try to fit that into a meme, or in a slogan, or in a soundbyte, it just ends up being garbled gibberish. The “Not All Men” argument obstinately ignores the fact that having a nuanced discussion through a megaphone at a protest just does not work. Of course it is not all men, but it is a large enough proportion to be seriously worried about.

This is similar to BIPOC fighting back against the KKK and all the similar organizations and being told they’re bigoted and wrong because it’s not every white person that’s a racist. Of course it’s not that every white person is a racist, and of course it’s not that every man is a monster, but to grab attention and make a statement, you have to trim the nuance out and pick the most important piece out or else your protest just gets lost in the noise.

Protests are a very truncated form of communication and there are many people here on Lemmy that are pointedly forgetting or ignoring that fact in their outrage and offense in response to this protest.

Yours is a voice in a chorus in the response to this article on Lemmy. The majority of the comments on this article and similar ones are calling out the “misandry” and shouting down commenters who disagree with them. The predominant sentiment appears to be men interpreting this as an indiscriminate punishment and expressing that they are personally aggrieved and offended by this protest because they’re “one of the good ones”.

Right now, if you want to be “one of the good ones”, you need to be turning around and fighting the men who are expressing entitlement in the face of this protest as well as the men who started out from the position of “your body, my choice”. Simply stating that you are an ally is not enough. As a man, you have the privileged position of being able to speak to other men on a more level playing field to try to convince them of the gravity of the impending attack on women’s rights without being accused of being “emotional”, “hysterical”, or “misandrist” just for participating in the conversation.

If you are so intent upon discussion of this matter as being an issue of misandry, I certainly hope that you are as staunchly against misogyny and intend to do far more than just voting for Kamala to protect women in this country.

That is my main concern. Men will not suffer irreparable harm from the consequences of the coming Trump administration anywhere near the same way women will. I will assume that you will consider this to be misandrist as well, but I have little regard for the concerns and complaints of men in this matter because for women, this is quite literally a matter of life and death.

Trying to harp on the “misandry” part of this is not productive towards the goal of the protest which is the protection of women’s rights and lives against the coming onslaught.

This has already started happening and the result is that there are growing swaths of red states where there is little to no access to OB/Gyn care. Women in places like Idaho are on waiting lists for OB/Gyns so long that their first prenatal appointment can be as late as 20 weeks into the pregnancy. The waiting list problem doesn’t even account for the fact that women are having to drive as much as 200 miles to get to appointments.

I think HRT is quite likely to be on the chopping block. Depo provera is probably high on the list given that it is primarily used as a contraceptive, and I can’t imagine that other hormonal treatments would be far behind.

Refusing to engage in sex or relationships is not “shutting people out”, it’s exercising bodily and personal autonomy. This issue is a potato in a world of apples and oranges and cannot be compared meaningfully to other issues. Is a lesbian the equivalent of a racist for being entirely uninterested in men? Is an asexual person a bigot because they refuse to have sex with anyone?

The assertions you are making are a moot point if you value consent at all. If women do not consent to be in relationships or have sex, that needs to be the end of the discussion without coercing them to change their minds by calling them bigots for their refusal to consent.

They’re not alleged oppressors. Women’s rights in this country have always been an uphill battle, and we were already quite a ways away from proper equity before the MAGA crowd and the republicans started rolling things back. Is the ACAB sentiment bigotry? Are BIPOC communities bigoted for being wary of white politics and actions?

There are two genders in this country: Cis-male, and political. If you’re not cis-male, you’re at a disadvantage out of the gate, and it is far from unreasonable for women or people in general to be wary and suspicious when it comes to their safety. I have no misandrist views, but I am keenly aware of my disadvantages and vulnerabilities when it comes to interactions with cis-men, particularly in romantic or sexual contexts.

I’ve been largely focused on the impacts of queer and women’s healthcare, but you bring up a very good point regarding COVID sequelae. We might just have to get creative about diagnostic terminology to continue treating our patients.