'Selfless'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
then there are the people who hate "BigPharma" because they are only about profit and money and then turn around and spend tons of money on fake treatments.
But the money's going to New Age types who say their natural treatment is good for the earth!
Mind you, I suppose it's technically true inasmuch as, once you become fertilizer, you are good for the earth.
I wish research literacy (I know, it presupposes basic literacy) were more widely taught. There's a lot of crap research out there. There's even more crap reporting on research, so it's no wonder that people can't differentiate.
I wish research literacy (I know, it presupposes basic literacy) were more widely taught.
That and risk assessment. I know a woman who refused to take tamoxifen after her chemo, because it doubles the rate of endometrial cancer. It does appear to double the rate of endometrial cancer, from 1/1,000 to 2/1,000. However, it reduces the risk of recurrence by a third or more.
I know a woman who refused to take tamoxifen after her chemo, because it doubles the rate of endometrial cancer. It does appear to double the rate of endometrial cancer, from 1/1,000 to 2/1,000. However, it reduces the risk of recurrence by a third or more.
Reading that doubled the risk of my head exploding.
I remember arguing with a friend (who's very smart) that driving is more dangerous than flying. I made no headway at all. Yeah, I think risk (and probability in general) confuses a lot of people.
Allyson, how did they finally find the part? Will you write up the solution because it would be fun to share with the FB peeps I shared the first part with.
Did it claim to be a unicorn?
I would have enjoyed that more than it refusing to print postage so I could mail things to ita and amych.
It is here if anyone is interested, but I am super wordy and the topic is super specific, but I would be interested in anyone's perspective:
The super specificity of it is what makes it fascinating. There's obviously several decades of experience behind what you're writing and I think maybe you don't value that enough. But it's always compelling to hear a master discuss their trade.
More on risk: Your Home Birth is Not a Feminist Statement
Amy Tuteur wrote a great piece in 2009 at Science Based Medicine on the increased neonatal mortality rate associated with home birth. According to 2004 data from the CDC, comparing midwife-assisted births, infants born at home were 3x more likely to die than infants born in a hospital setting. Similar data were discussed in 2010 by Harriet Hall. A meta-analysis of studies of planned home births versus planned hospital births reveals that infants born at home, with a midwife in attendance, are 2x more likely to die than infants born in hospital with an MD or midwife in attendance. That is fascinating given that it is typically the ”lowest risk” women who are advised that they may be good candidates for home birth.
I really don't know much about the home birth movement, so I'm assuming these statistics are accurate.
Well, that's why they only agree to it with the lowest risk patients to start. Even someone with only one or two risk factors can't even use a midwife, or at least not in the states where I delivered, and that would have been hospital births anyway.
A hell of a lot can happen during even healthy labor.