My first thought:

Great, when's it going to run for Congress?

When I was writing code, I personally found a strategically placed Claymore mine usually preempts interruptions. Tripwires prevent me from even having to turn around.....

N.B. "Front towards enemy", means just that......

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I think you're on the right track....I have not RTFA, but the synopsis raises some concern about interpreting the conclusion. The data was taken from "General Internal Medicine Division", which are, typically, first line or Primary Care Physicians (PCPs). Often they will make a diagnosis based on their generalized knowledge of a medical problem and often refer them to a sub-specialist (i.e. you have trouble breathing with exertion, you find you need to sleep on multiple pillows, your ankles are swollen and you physical exam and office EKG lead me to refer you to a cardiologist (sub-specialist)) - so yes, the opinion will be different a lot of the time....the generalist can't know everything that a specialist can, but the generalist often triages the problem to someone who does know more.

This could explain the "Among those with updated diagnoses, 66% received a refined or redefined diagnosis, while 21% were diagnosed with something completely different". It'd be interesting to see how they correlated this.

In short: you can't. Cosmic radiation is just a small part of the complex system that can trigger cancer. Other aspects include: genetic make-up, environment (carcinogens) and the inherent error rate in the DNA copying machinery (missense, frameshifts, slippage, etc) [to name a few off the top of my head - I don't treat cancer]. And before you go down there....those imperfect copies are what leads to genetic variation (important to fend off predators both macro and microscopic) and evolution. Cancer is just about inevitable in any DNA based system

Ummm, no. More likely this is another bubble, and we're seeing the first signs its going to pop. How many of these "businesses" that sell "free" products are actually turning a profit? And how many are just waiting to be bought out? Sound familiar? It's the tech version of flipping houses.

I am a physician and yes, my BS meter usually goes up when people who have no understanding of human anatomy, physiology, histology, biochemistry, or pathology start rambling on about toxins. But take it from person who deals with sepsis and critical ill patients on a weekly basis. Bacterial endotoxins are the real deal. There are a significant source of morbidity and mortality in severely ill patients. Also, please realize that this research is in collaboration with Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard's Engineering department.

That being said, I pulled the original article and on first read, it seems to be a potential game-changer. My questions:

1. They liken this to dialysis. Many critically ill patients can not tolerate dialysis due to fluid shifts across the membrane....What sorts of flow are required scaled up to humans would be required. Could this be run on a CRRT-HF type circuit or a SLED schedule?

2. They use FcMBL adsorbed to dialysis tubing. I only see animal studies. What, if any, interaction does this with human proteins and cell lines. e.g. if it causes hemolysis or Agglutination, this would destroy the utility.

3. What is the observed length of endotoxin/pathogen clearance? Ties back into #1.

4. I presume this is Fc based (the only description I saw was "FcMBL protein was expressed and purified from a stable transfection of CHO-DG44 cells "), is this Fc, human, murine, equine, porcine, leporine, or bovine?

More questions will come up...but I have a lecture to prepare...

No, actually they are not. The leading cause of lawsuits is poor communication. And if you want to believe a lawyer the top two leading causes are surgical misadventures and issues with child birth. Missed diagnosed probably comes in third.

I actually predict Watson as potentially increasing medical costs. The issue? Something we call incidentalomas. These are incidental findings that were not expected and rarely result in an identified problem. But we spend a ton of time, money, and effort tracking these down, and they rarely pan out.

If that is what you think, then go for it. If you believe that care from a lesser trained individual is better for you, then by all means have at it. I work with nurses, and physicians, and other "healthcare" extenders. Nurses are great a following a well ordered script. They can nail, say, 90-95% of the primary care medical problems out there (e.g. outpatient settings). The problem? If you are part of the 5-10%, they don't do so well (and cost you more money in the process). Most don't have the training or experience to "know what they don't know" or they are Unconsciously incompetent. A good primary physician is at least "Consciously incompetent" to "Unconsciously competent" and can either treat you or refer you. Now I know some are going to tell me that their doctors "know nothing", but I'll bet they know more than most nurses (yes there are physicians who shouldn't be - that's another discussion for another day).

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I'm not a practicing engineer, but am one by training. I would imagine that an EM system allows one to "ramp up the power" vs a steam head slamming into a piston and the resulting sudden strain on the plane.

My question is, could you not use something similar for civilian aircraft using a longer ramp up time to lower the amount of fuel on the plane a saving some cost?