@Kidney_boy @MGKatz036 arguably livers are way more scarce than kidneys - you are going to transplant only the fittest people - which is the third argument to consider here @mike_johansen (less important for kidneys I guess)
James Forten was born a free man in 1766 in Philadelphia. During the Revolutionary War he was a powder boy on a sailing ship, only to be captured and then released by the British. He resumed employment as a sailmaker, going on to own the business and employ 38 people. He invented a new type of sail and made a fortune. He funded #abolitionist causes, purchased freedom for enslaved people, opened his home as an Underground Railroad depot & started a school for #Black children.
@mike_johansen @Kidney_boy @MGKatz036 sort of.
Allocation of scarce resources from a societal perspective is not easy.
These are older Canadian g/l https://www.cmaj.ca/content/173/10/S1
These are our current criteria (PDF) https://www.cmaj.ca/content/173/10/S1
Lots of hoops. In US with OPOs and metrics and stuff, I suspect it’s even worse.
@rami @emilymbender @danmcquillan
Two of their main starting points for their data were Wikipedia and Reddit. So if they had just wanted to use higher-quality sources, they could have done that. Use Wikipedia. Don't use Reddit.
The model becomes more fluent (but not more truthful) when you increase the size of the data, and the training becomes incredibly expensive (~$10^8-10^9) when the size is large. They wouldn't have spent all that money if the large size hadn't been necessary for fluency.
"We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it." Excellent piece by @danmcquillan@twitter.com:
https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html
I suggest you read the whole thing, but some pull quotes:
"ChatGPT is a part of a reality distortion field that obscures the underlying extractivism and diverts us into asking the wrong questions and worrying about the wrong things."
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@Kidney_boy They are all very good!
@BavariaNephro I agree. I think the team has hit on great formula for informative and entertaining critical literature appraisal. Obvious COI😂
MyTEMP is one of the most important pragmatic trials ever done in nephrology, and though it was negative, it definitively answered the question asked and lights the way to how we find better ways to dialyze patients.
Check out the podcast, it's good.
Black service members who served in wars, were often denied access to the GI Bill when they returned.
So white veterans could get loans for college, or to buy a house. Black veterans could not. This lack of access to affordable education and affordable housing had devastating impacts on Black veteran homelessness.
Black veterans were also denied access to medical care and benefits. This lack of access to healthcare also drove homelessness.
WHO updates their recommendations to advise masking by "anyone in a crowded, enclosed, or poorly ventilated space" regardless of local epidemiological conditions in light of its global spread.
#COVID #BringBackMasks
https://www.who.int/news/item/13-01-2023-who-updates-covid-19-guidelines-on-masks--treatments-and-patient-care
@calimari Hello and welcome to Mastodon! I'm Sage, and I love to take photos of tide pool creatures. Here's a picture of a Horned Nudibranch I took recently.
I see the impact of microplastics on every beach I visit. Water bottles, plastic rope, foam containers, even frisbees and sun visors are everywhere. And worse, when you look closely at the sand, it's thousands of tiny specs of plastic.
Sea creatures (and everyone on earth!) are harmed by microplastics. We all have to do our part to eliminate plastic use.
#microplastics #plastics
"A large RCT in the community in Bangladesh found face masks reduced the risk of infection by 11% overall and 35% in people over 60 years. In contrast, in hospitals, N95 reduce risk by 67% against bacterial infections and 54% against viral infections."
Well-argued plain-language summary of randomised trials of masks
Once again a patient with upper respiratory symptoms just told me they do not have Covid because they had a negative home Covid test. A positive test is pretty reliable in saying Covid is present but a negative test (especially if not doing serial tests) does not rule out Covid. Still limit contact with others and wear a high quality mask. Even if not Covid, there is no point in spreading other viruses to others.
I’m a professor of medicine at McMaster University #MacDeptMed, #McMasterU
Clinically, I work as a #KidneyDoctor (#Nephrology)
I’m an associate member of #HEI (#Epidemiology) at #McMasterU
I’m a member of the Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials (#PPE, #N95, #CEPEM) at #McMasterU
My #Research is in #KidneyDisease #KidneyEpi (#CKD, #Potassium, #CKDProgression) and #Masks
I’m a scientific editor with more than 20 years experience.
I’m editor-in-chief of https://maskevidence.org/ which curates evidence on #BetterMasks and #MasksWork For the pandemic, we need #SystemsApproaches because #CovidIsAirborne and #CovidIsNotOver. #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid I’d like to see #KidneyVerse as the tag to find others with interest in #KidneyHealth and #KidneyDisease. #AskKidney #AskRenal Also trying to be #LGBTQ2 ally, working on #EDI #Equity, interested in #SocialJustice #UrbanPlanning. Treaty 3|Dish with One Spoon, Turtle Island; Hamilton ON Canada. She/her