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Doctor The Frog

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Disabled (MCAS and long COVID). Not-so-happily retired geriatrician/palliative/IM doc. My skeets do reflect the opinions of my current employers (The Tiny House Panther and The Emergency Backup Cat). 🏳️‍🌈

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Futurama Fry Not Sure meme template:

Unsure of the significance

of monoclonal gammopathy

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 51m

That’s actually a statistical error. The average person drinks zero ciders per year in their sleep. Ciders Georg, who lives in the UK and drinks 100 ciders per night is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 1h

Although from your thread it sounds like they should have communicated it better if this were the case.

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 1h

So I’m revising my knee jerk reaction. New view is that there is a small but real chance that this is actually a real thing. Academic searches have also degraded considerably in the last decade, which hasn’t helped one stay current.

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 1h

Okay. I’m going to actually try to do a real search on this tomorrow. A quick attempt didn’t return what I expected to find (which is that this was largely useless voodoo/quackery or at least not yet ready for prime time)…

Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 1h

…It was frustratingly difficult to figure out what meds or tests or procedures would actually cost for patients. Which just added another potential barrier to care. (Can my patient afford it?)

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 1h

If this is a serious question (and I’m not just missing something), then one potential reason is that we usually have only a very vague understanding idea what something will cost a patient. Insurance and facility fees are opaque to us and costs can change…

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 2h

Because new stuff comes out and residents sometimes were ahead of the curve.

But the chances of this being the case here? Not so good.

Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 2h

Not exactly true. If it was a resident doc (or student), I would have assumed it was something new & asked for more info. It probably would have resulted in them getting homework to bring me the data (and maybe present when it was their turn to do the clinic lecture if real/useful).

Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 2h

Now, I’ve been out of practice since COVID, but if a resident had presented an outpatient to me and said their cardiac age was 14 years less than their chronological age, I would have very politely asked them the equivalent of “What in the Kentucky Fried Fuck are you on about?”

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 2h

It’s a lot easier when you are AI.

Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 5h

Crud. I was prepping for a "ghost runner" and Halloween joke. But some Jerry already did that. Bah.

Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 5h

This game is going on for a while I guess. Maybe they could have a rule where a runner starts on second base at the start of the inning.

Just kidding. I actually like reverting back to the real rules in the playoffs. :)

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 23d

“No,” said Frog.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 20h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 8h

what am I doing at my job? my fucking job, that's what I'm doing. how about you go do your fucking job, whuch is knowing what my fucking job is. I don't have time to do your job for you because unlike you I'm busy doing my fucking job

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 9h

Nice.

Just on the slight chance you aren't aware of Eric and the Dread Gazebo, here's one telling of it.

youtu.be/yRc0wBP_0xI?...

This D&D player DIED to a gazebo?

YouTube video by ZacSpeaksGiant

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 9h

I guess it's okay that the mantle of Resistance Frog is passed along from Kermit (the quintessential multiculturalism frog) to The Portland Frog.

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 9h

It might be hard to find it now to confirm that I'm not just making stuff up, but I seem to remember him saying something along the lines that television viewers shouldn't and don't expect medical advice from TV doctors. Might have been during Congressional testimony.

No True Scotsmanning himself?

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 9h

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10h

If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 10h

...But he's still a doctor. If it bothers you to think/admit that, then it might be worth reexamining why. (I've taught plenty of good doctors and had some for my own care. But I've also taught and had docs who were...otherwise.)

There shouldn't be the physician equivalent of the Thin Blue Line.

Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 10h

As much as I'd like to disown him from the profession, saying that Oz (or Bill Cassidy or Rand Paul) aren't really doctors seems like an abdication. It feels like No True Scotsman.

All docs get it wrong sometimes. And some get it wrong more often than others. (Oz gets it wrong A LOT.) ...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 11h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11h

This has been the entire thing for months. It's better if Democrats start saying so in public.

Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 16h

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 11h

For this many calories, I should at least get a slice of cheese.

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ヤンデドキ•SOX @yandedoki-sox.bsky.social · 21h

Draw your oc eating the 460,000 calorie McDonald's Sausage Biscuit reward