Some recent pictures showed pretty impressively swollen ankles (bilaterally, mind you) which really only happens with a handful of conditions, congestive heart failure being the most common one.

I do have a tech background in addition to being a medical student and it really drives me bonkers that we’re calling these overgrown algorithms “AI”. The generative AI models I suppose are a little closer to earning the definition as they are black-box programs that develop themselves to a certain extent, but all of the reputable “AI” programs used in science and medicine are very carefully curated algorithms with specific rules and parameters that they follow.

The discriminative AI’s are just really complex algorithms, and to my understanding, are not complete black-boxes. As someone who has a lot of medical problems I receive care for as well as being someone who will be a physician in about 10 months, I refuse to trust any black-box programming with my health or anyone else’s.

Right now, the only legitimate use generative AI has in medicine is as a note-taker to ease the burden of documentation on providers. Their work is easily checked and corrected, and if your note-taking robot develops weird biases, you can delete it and start over. I don’t trust non-human things to actually make decisions.

They don’t use the generative models for this. The AI’s that do this kind of work are trained on carefully curated data and have a very narrow scope that they are good at.

The important thing to know here is that those AI were trained by very experienced radiologists who are physicians that specialize in reading imaging. The AI’s wouldn’t have this capability if the humans didn’t train them.

Also, the imaging that AI performs well with is fairly specific, and there are many kinds of imaging techniques and diagnostic applications that the AI is still very bad at.

The doctors that only ever studied medicine and nothing else have a tendency to be impressively stupid in anything that isn’t their direct specialty.

This is one of the many reasons I’m getting a hysterectomy as soon as possible.

“Alligator Auschwitz”

If it’s any consolation, he has no education, no job prospects, and is getting pushed out of the conservative talk show circuit. He will be destitute soon (if he isn’t already).

One of my Canadian friends called it “Alligator Auschwitz”. I think we should all call it that exclusively and incessantly.

I have to look stuff up for medical school (usually trying to find studies and whatnot) so the gemini results are just obnoxious garbage to me.

I think this is a good idea. I’m not sure what time interval to use (ie weekly, bi-weekly, monthly)

Firefox has a plugin that blocks the AI results. It works pretty well most of the time, but it occasionally has hiccups when Google updates stuff or something.

I think the pay issue is *another big contributor. Women are more likely to accept lower paying jobs, particularly ones like caring professions or teaching, whereas men have a tendency towards higher paying jobs (in part due to the lack of support for pregnancy, parental leave, and childcare expenses).

*edited for clarity

The problem with that is you are then putting the burden on a member of that hated group to present themselves as a paragon and suffer all the vitriol and abuse that gets hurled at them until the hateful person hopefully snaps out of it.

Having been the sole woman in many male-dominated spaces, I gotta tell ya, it is a special kind of hell to try to be that positive example.

From the commenter above talking about negative experiences with talking to women and female therapists, I think the real solution is that men need to be proactive about supporting each other. Ranting and raving about how women are terrible and don’t know how to help men with an undercurrent of expectations that women (especially a romantic partner) should fix everything is simply not a tenable mindset.

As a woman who works in the medical field, I am keenly aware of my limitations when it comes to helping men with mental health issues. I think the real, effective solution is for men to start opening up to each other and supporting each other the way that women tend to do among themselves. I don’t mean this as “oh, men are terrible and they need to fuck off somewhere else with their problems”, I mean it as a sincere belief that the best people to help a man through emotional or psychological problems are probably other men given the shared socialization and perspective.

I don’t think the open internet is a great place to open up about your mental health either. Trusted family, friends, and medical/mental health professionals are the best resources. Entrusting something as precious as your mental health to AI or the internet is a profoundly bad idea.

Look, I just finished my medical board exams recently. My brain is running on the power of about 2/3rds of a yukon gold potato here.

You need the chicken to be 165F or 74C to be food safe. It takes a long time to cook at 100-200C because the heat is being transferred much slower. If we’re using this instant slap-based cooking method, it only needs to get to the food safe temperature.

Using the OP’s calculations and a cooked temperature of 74C:

It would take 8315 average slaps

or

A slap at around 813m/s or 1819mph.

*Edit for a correction to the second calculation (it still might be wrong), also, I rounded the numbers to whole integers.

That is an option, but I would want to make sure that people with limited English fluency or education wouldn’t be excluded.