Chetzemoka

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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago

Sorry I was only addressing the reasoning behind paramedics being allowed to administer ketamine in the field and not other drugs. And reviewing this case, I don't see any indication for haloperidol either. They should not have drugged this person at all:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Elijah_McClain

But we should have teams of psychiatric professionals who are qualified to administer things like haloperidol responding to emergency calls that are specifically stated to be for psychiatric crises. I don't really want random paramedics in charge of choosing when to administer haloperidol, which can have significant and permanent side effects even after one dose.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A job where I work three 12-hour shifts per week, so at least my sleep deprived misery is limited to less than half my days.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ketamine doesn't carry the risk of respiratory depression and hypotension that other sedatives and pain killers do. No risk that you might have to immediately intubate someone.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Push and pull technique.

Push: bitter spray or cayenne pepper on plant leaves to discourage biting

https://www.chewy.com/dp/504510?utm_source=app-share&utm_campaign=504510

Pull: cat grass and lots of cat toys. Seriously, buy more toys. Give them something else to focus on.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I believe that your bodily autonomy ends at your ability to infect my body with your germs. Stop trying to commandeer the rhetoric of abortion rights and pretending the two situations are analogous because they are not.

Vaccination is more like requiring people to carry car insurance. Because what you do is going to affect me.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

Sodium response is a lot more complicated than that, and a more accurate metric is probably dietary sodium:potassium ratio.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4224208/

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometime in the past ten years, my doctors started being younger than I am, and I'm still conflicted about it.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a nurse in my late 40s, and I still have to open conversations with my elderly patients "Mister Smith" "Mizz Smith" when I first meet them. I can't help myself; it's how I was raised haha

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I disagree with both your facts and your assessment.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

My understanding was this was the actual intended use case for NFTs. To allow you to properly own a digital item. The fact that it got applied to a stupid fad right out the gate doesn't change the fact that it should actually be used to allow us to own things again.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 33 points 1 year ago

"Means Matter"

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/

Reducing access to more lethal means of suicide reduces deaths by suicide in a population. The data on this is unequivocal.

That's because the majority of suicidal crises are spontaneous and of absurdly short duration, on the order of around 20 minutes. If you interrupt the process between decision and action, people survive. And 90% of people who survive a suicide attempt never go on to die by suicide at any future point in their lives.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Especially MCU Tony in that prototype suit from Ironman 1. He'd have been pudding from that crash.

I like how Star Trek chose to at least Macguffin the physics with the "inertial dampening fields" in the ships. Because it's not the speed; it's the sudden stop that'll get ya.

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