the Foxy Doc

Indian MD General Medicine physician. My special interests are ID 🦠, pulm 🌬 and crit care 💉. Trying my best to live the abx stewardship life. I follow from oceanfoxo. My other blogs are glossxlalia (language + linguistics blog) and arcadescapade (video game/animation/fandom blog).

[devils-yui]

Reposting this so it gets to the right people!!

Edit: Saline beats milk—it is AGAINST the usage of pouring milk into your eyes. It is suggesting that if you do not have access to a saline solution or water somehow, milk is your far LAST resort. It’s not a substitute. Use WATER above all else, it’s incredibly accessible

[transcyberism]

Sterile saline meant to go in eyes can usually be found in pharmacies near the contact solution - and if you can't find it, contact solution should work pretty well too and is also sterile. If you wear contacts and already have some, bring it. (Do not wear contacts at a protest where tear gas may be used.)

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad

[bears-official]

lol idk if you watch nautilus live at all but watching them process bio & geo samples side by side evokes exactly this Thing (the descriptions are gold too… “here are the 30 steps we use to preserve bio samples, and as for rocks, well, we let them dry, bag them, & put them in the Rock Box)

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

Good to know there’s enough Biologist Salt™ to go around

[thepioden]

Paleontologists occupy a weird and highly uncomfortable slice of this Venn Diagram

[thepurplegeologist]

in my own experience with geology most precautions with samples are to preserve the life and safety of the geologist, most of the rocks are fine. 

[laboradorescence]

i am continually reminded of one of my colleagues, who wanted to collect a sample of gypsum on a field excursion but was too lazy to take off his backpack and get his rock hammer. so he said “eh, it’s soft enough” just fucking punched the rock until a piece fell off like it was fucking minecraft

[followthebluebell]

"A Chicago dog tested positive for rabies by direct fluorescent antibody testing on December 19 at the IDPH Chicago Lab. The test was repeated and the repeat test was also positive. This is the first rabid dog in the state since 1994 and the first rabid dog in Cook County since 1964. This dog was younger than a year old and was adopted by a Chicago household from a Chicago rescue. The dog was from a litter of puppies from a Florida rescue group in May 2025.

The dog had behavioral issues throughout its life which got worse on December 16. Behaviors included growling, snapping, increased barking and anxiety. The dog was rabies vaccinated and rabies was not suspected. Due to the dog's behavior, it was euthanized on December 18. Because the dog had bitten someone on December 11 and per state law, it must be held for 10 days or tested for rabies. It was tested for rabies and found to be rabies positive.

Currently the source of rabies for the dog is under investigation. Strain typing to determine whether the strain is fox, bat, or raccoon strain is being conducted. This will help direct efforts in determining a source. The Illinois owners reported no known exposure to wild animals, including bats, while the dog was living with them. Currently bats are the reservoir for animal rabies in the state. The last skunk positive for rabies in Illinois was in 1998 and the last raccoon positive for rabies was in 1983.

The dog was vaccinated for rabies in June 2025. Because the exposure hasn't been identified, it's possible the dog was exposed prior to rabies vaccination.

Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) are evaluating any people in contact with the dog to determine if post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) should be recommended for any of them. In addition, Cook County Animal And Rabies Control (CCARC) are following-up with the owners of littermates and to dogs that this rabid dog might have been in contact with including at doggy day care. Any dog that is up to date on rabies vaccination and was in contact with the infected dog should get a booster rabies vaccination and be held at home quarantine for 45 days with close monitoring for any symptoms suggestive of rabies.

The incubation period for rabies is typically from 20 to 60 days but can be up to one year. Symptoms of rabies in animals include aggression, restlessness, hypersensitivity, excessive slobbering, lethargy, weakness, inability to raise their head or make sounds and hydrophobia.

The situation provides a reminder that pre-exposure rabies vaccination in veterinarians and their staff helps protect them against unknown rabies exposures and reduces the number of vaccines needed for post-exposure treatment. It is also a reminder of the importance of keeping pet rabies vaccinations up to date to reduce the risk of rabies."

Additional source here.

God, this is horrifying. This dog was vaccinated a while ago AND was at a day care. The day care isn't named here but I did some digging and it was Bow Wow Lounge in Ravenswood (source).

[ferrousferrule]

@copperbadge not something I'd normally tag you in but important to know in your area. Let your irl friends know.

[copperbadge]

Yep, heads up to local friends, I mentioned this to some of you already. Rabies is a truly terrifying disease.

[punk-speedchunk]

good news: any time a venus flytrap plant produces flowers, it looks really stupid ♡

[ceescedasticity]

I have no idea how Venus Flytraps are pollinated but I am now imagining this is designed to try to keep pollinators well away from the jaws of death.

[darkladynyara]

That is in fact exactly why they're like this! (Several species of carnivorous plants do the same thing)

[myfootyrthroat]

Oooh! Bog time! Tumblr loves a bog:

(Image from Minnesota Wildflowers)

Pitcher plants do the same thing and have really cool looking flowers!

[optimysticals]

The plant version of it's not stupid if it works.

[dxmedstudent]

I think they look pretty.

[busket]

this was a comment on a video of a male medical student talking about going into his obgyn rotation and how hes not offended when people dont allow him to sit in on their obgyn appointments to get clinical experience. and I HATE this mindset.

there is nothing sexual or perverted about being an OBGYN. that is a medical doctor for a specific part of a person's body. yes, those parts are used in sex and reproduction. but like any other part of the human body, it can have medical problems that need to be fixed. to say that anyone, regardless of gender, must have some perverted desire in order to become a specialized doctor is so disgusting. do we think that female doctors who specialize in male urology and reproductive health are just horny women who want to look at penis all day?

and if you are personally uncomfortable with having a male obgyn, that's perfectly fine. the video that this comment was left on was specifically about a male medical student saying "your comfort and safety always comes first, no one is offended by you saying you don't want me in the room while you have an exam" which is true!! but to then say "he shouldn't be in that practice anyway. predator." is so fucking nasty. he hasn't done anything wrong. these medical visits should always be built on the strictest form of informed consent. youre judging him for being a student in a very necessary medical field. there are a lot of great women obgyns, i just had my hysterectomy from one, but I don't think that only women should be allowed to be obgyns and male obgyns should not be shamed.

remember that some people hold just as much trauma towards women and would actually feel more comfortable being assessed by a man. male predators are more common because of a patriarchal society that teaches men to be entitled (NOT due to some implicit evil that some folks seem to think exists inside a man), but being a predator is not unique to being a man, and people who have trauma around women also deserve a safe and comfortable medical experience.

[aidashakur]

[velvetvexations]

[micamicster]

Please get your flu shots it’s not too late to make my life individually better 🙏

[wheresonichedgehogwnt]

I'm on maternity leave, so please, think of the Peds residents!

[doctorfoxtor]

I got my flu shot! ...And my Tdap booster, and my pneumococcal, and my HAV, and my meningococcal. Y'all don't have to be as insane as me, just get your flu jab!

[mushroominaforest]

Shout out to the doctor who responded with complete sincerity when I (on anesthesia) uttered the phrase “chat are we cooked” in her medical professional vicinity. You’re such a real one for that fr fr

[depsidase]

[monarcho-mysticism]

An er doctor that wants to just lounge around does not make me feel confident as a patient

[prussianmemes]

how long and how many days a week do you think ER doctors work. i think they're right to want to just fucking chill. i want a well rested doctor treating me and not one who just pulled a 24 hour shift and then a 12 and another 12 before another 24, with only a few hours of legally mandated breaks inbetween.

[crazy-pages]

Yeah some of us want a 30-hour work week because we've read the experimental research trials. People aren't any less productive and they are happier and less stressed and feel less leisure time pressure.

It turns out that working 40 hours a week is just too much. Full stop, no ifs ands or buts. The tiredness and loss of focus it induces is enough that you're about 25% less productive per hour when you're on a 40-hour work week, and so the extra 10 hours a week cancels out. This effect is a little bit more pronounced for white collar work and a little bit less pronounced for blue collar work, but there's functionally not enough of a difference to care. And people who are working more than that actually become less productive in total.

The thing is that you don't immediately gain the benefits of being fully rested and focused by working less on just one day, or even one week. It can even take months to settle into the pattern of higher productivity per working hour, and that's frankly miraculously quick given that full burnout can take years to recover from. And during that transition you will be less immediately productive. Particularly for people who pride themselves on being hard workers and how much overtime they put in, the notion that working less can get just as much done can feel absurd and even insulting. Because it seems so painfully obvious that you get less done when you do less, and any experiences of being invited to do so feel like they back that up.

But it's true. We are all simply working more than we need to, pointlessly, to no benefit at all. It is an appallingly pointless waste of human life.

Shortened Work Weeks: What Studies Show

The results of several workplace surveys may defy expectations, but the data is clear: shortened work weeks can work for businesses and empl

[addamatic]

Also, I don’t actually care if someone is less productive working 30 hours a week or 20 hours a week. We do not need endless productivity and it’s bad for the earth and bad for people. We would be completely fine if everyone was half as productive. Literally we would be better off. It does not matter that a 30 hour work week is as productive as a 40 hour work week. Reject that framing!

[pathwaytovenusv]

I am 💯 with @addamatic on this!

[lizardlicks]

i guarantee you the ER doc wasn't even thinking of themself when they tweeted that. Do you know how many people turn up in the ER because they're too over worked to take the time to rest and recouperate when problems are small and manageable before they snowball? Do you know how many patients are repeat ER visitors because they're told they need to take a break and rest as part of their treatment, but they have rent and bills and need to eat food, so they go right back to work? How many ER injuries are from repeat stress and strain, or caused by tired workers who went into work on too many energy drinks and not enough actual restful sleep, then made a mistake?

[appalachiananarchist]

Physician here.

If we as a society had a more humane relationship with labor and compensation, I'd say 70% of my patients' problems would be solved. My job feels like damage control after capitalism has chewed these people up and spit them out at my door.

My clinic is a revolving door of chronic fatigue, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, hypertension and diabetes (always poorly controlled due to stress-induced poor lifestyles or inability to afford treatments), and so much more that I can almost always trace back to my patients being overworked, underpaid, and at the end of their rope.

The current labor climate is a health hazard. It's killing people, and it doesn't have to be this way. We built this system. We can build a different one.

[dogpuppy]

[probablybadrpgideas]

This is in no way RPG related but I just heard someone call a doctor "you hippocratic oaf" and I needed to share that

[rhokotela]

Fam, what’s the highest A1c you all have seen? I just had a dude come in at 17.9% but I feel like that’s not the ceiling. Tell me your high rollers.

[doctorfoxtor]

Oof I forget which story is mine and which was told to me but either 19 or 21. I remember my patient being severely alcohol dependent, severely burnt out emotionally and pancreatically and also severely in denial about his condition and the need for insulin

[beemovieerotica]

the cognitive dissonance from people who want the products of modern medicine but get weird about animal research. like im sorry but this is necessary for the survival of the society we currently live in. and the scientists who work on these things are not evil cackling psychopaths. anyone you talk to in animal research has incredibly complex feelings about their work and incredibly complex relationships to the animals in their care. there are regulations and oversight and penalties in place to make the work as humane as possible and scientists are overwhelmingly the ones enforcing and advocating for better care.

[beemovieerotica]

@velvetdemon I'm doing a full reply because I want to give this question the time and space it deserves, and I really do appreciate your curiosity about this.

The short answer: It is deeply unethical. There are nowhere near enough willing patients in the world to be able to do this, and it would be criminal to put them through this.

The long answer: The one side of the equation you're focusing on is: how much of a drug is too much, to the point where it will cause negative side effects or even death? And this is crucial to know. But it's not just a matter of finding out the lethal dosage of a heart cholesterol medication, you need to know that it can actually lower the cholesterol of any living thing. There is no way to know this without giving it first to...a living thing.

But beyond this, I need to emphasize: The goal of a drug trial is to effectively cure people who are already suffering from disease, who are living on limited time.

Drug trials don't just happen on any member of the public, they need to happen specifically on people affected by the disease you're trying to treat. There is at any time a very limited and very marginalized population of the world affected by early onset, familial Parkinson's disease. Because you cannot ethically induce disease in a human being, you are working with, speaking with, and helping patients and their families who are hopeful and desperate for a cure.

If you were to jump straight to human trials from petri dishes, not knowing absolutely anything about how the drug functions in a living, breathing animal body, it would look like this:

We didn't know that minute quantities of the drug interact lethally with x, y, z medication that people are commonly also taking. X number of patients have died as a result.

We didn't know that the drug is fatal to people with [common variant] in their genetics. X more patients have died.

We didn't know the drug exacerbates x, y, z chronic illnesses. X number of people have acquired permanent, lifelong disabilities.

We didn't know the best way to deliver the drug, so we tried multiple ways: the people who received it intravenously are now suffering from a painful, costly, and debilitating condition that did not happen with the ingested form.

I could go on, and on, and on.

The vast majority of these problems can be nearly or almost entirely averted by testing other animals first.

These are all people who possibly could have waited for the normal progression from animal testing to human testing and thus received better outcomes. Some people will pass away in the time it takes to get to that point, and that's heartbreaking, and we all wish science could be faster.

But the cost of expediting science could mean a life of profoundly greater suffering or an even shorter life than the one where no intervention happens at all. And at that point, you have completely exhausted your trust, your goodwill, and your patients' hope, after you've failed to do anything or even worsened the lives of people who are already deeply suffering.

[manslaughter]

hi, i’m an animal research professional. making sure laboratory animals stay alive, healthy, and enriched has been my full-time job for several years now.

animal research is not the mad scientist wild west that PETA wants you to think it is. there are extremely strict federal laws in place to protect the well being of these animals. animal welfare organizations like AAALAC ensure that lab animals are treated with dignity & respect and are given enough specialized care & enrichment to be happy and content in captivity, just like AZA accreditation with zoos.

not a single animal from a zebrafish to a mouse to a dog to a macaque goes unaccounted for. if an animal gets moved to a new cage, paired for breeding, has a procedure performed on it, gives birth, gets sick or injured, dies, etc. it is legally required that this information is recorded and kept on file for the US federal government to access. failing to record & retain this information is very much punishable by US federal law.

let me tell you - if you abuse or kill an animal, even a mouse - you are almost certainly getting both fired & blacklisted from the industry. if you abuse or kill a more ‘advanced’ animal, such as a dog or monkey, you will likely face criminal charges. killing a monkey is as serious and disastrous as a nuclear meltdown. you are expected to reasonably explain every illness, injury, or death of an animal under your care. you must record all of this information. animals that are clearly suffering with low QOL are required to be euthanized according to AVMA guidelines.

research animals are highly expensive. yes, even the "lesser" animals like mice. the cheapest mice will run you a few hundred $ per individual, with some of the most expensive mice i've cared for being $25,000 per individual. in research we have the "three Rs" - reduction (reduce amount of necessary animals to a minimum), refinement (refine processes to ensure research is accurate and animals feel no pain or distress), and replacement (replace animals with non-living research models as they become available). i can assure you no proper research team is wasting animals (*do not* say "b-b-but elon musk--" his research team is actively being investigated for animal abuse by the government).

research methods that do not require live animals are currently being looked into & efforts spearheaded by - you guessed it - the animal research industry itself (notice how the animal rights people are strangely silent & unhelpful when it comes to this?) but current technology is rudimentary and does not compare to live animal models.

some research animal fun facts (US edition):

all species of animals are only allowed to have one single major surgery performed on them in their entire lifetime.

institutions with nonhuman primates must have a behavior program in place (run by knowledgeable primate specialists) to ensure that they are happy and receiving enough daily enrichment and social interaction.

institutions with dogs are required to have physical exercise programs in place. this means every individual dog gets a substantial amount of leashed AND free-roaming exercise daily, including playgroups with other dogs.

a majority of nonhuman primates get to retire to sanctuaries like peaceable primate sanctuary, and almost all dogs get retired and adopted out by organizations like homes for animal heroes. some institutions will also adopt out unneeded young rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, etc.

some strains of mice glow neon green (or orange or blue) under UV light. this is not harmful to them and is commonly seen in cancer research.

so yes, you can rest knowing that laboratory animals are treated with the utmost respect by their caretakers. and you can stop this awful, ignorant talk of human experimentation that will only end in the abuse of nonwhite people, LGBT people, disabled people, indigenous people, and so many others. please just take a look at this wikipedia page if you think “ethical” human experimentation can exist.

[prismatic-bell]

Listen, y'all. In my home county, there was a dude with cancer--a longtime radio deejay, John Kanzius. (Yes, I just violated a major rule of internet security by telling you this. I don't live there anymore or we wouldn't have names on this post.)

He threw himself into cancer research because traditional methods weren't working--they were just making him sicker. That's not to say "oh nooooooo, Big Pharma wants you sick," it's to say that chemo is no walk in the park, and for some people the cure can be worse than the disease. So he read an absolutely insane amount of cancer research, taught himself, and invented a way to treat cancer with radio waves. His cancer went terminal. He begged for the chance to test the treatment on himself. As he put it, he was going to die anyway--if it killed him quicker, so be it. And if it gave him a few more years, a few more months, a few more days, well....they'd have their Patient Zero to show it was safe to go into clinical trials. The research team said no. And they said no because even though it'd successfully killed cancer cells in petri-dish testing, it hadn't gone through requisite animal testing yet. Everything researchers stated above? True. Correct. They will not put a human at risk, even a dying human, even a dead man walking, until they know the risk is minimal. John Kanzius died in 2009. Want to know when first-in-human trials started? July of 2021. That should tell you a lot about how human experimentation is viewed in medicine. He--and others who'd heard him mistakenly claim he'd "cured cancer" before he understood just how much research still needed to be done--was ready to die for the chance to live. People offered to sign every waiver, release every legal liability. And the answer was still no. Because without seeing how his treatment would work on an actual living being as opposed to just some cells in a dish, there was too much chance someone could spend their final days in unspeakable agony if things went wrong. And unlike a mouse, you can't provide compassionate euthanasia to a human. It's illegal. Yes, even if there's 0% chance of recovery. (Look up Jack Kevorkian if you want a bit of understanding as to why.) There is a reason animal testing exists. I'm not a fan of it. I wish it didn't have to be a thing. I also recognize that if we want to successfully research a lot of cutting-edge medicine, it has to be a thing. It is possible to hold both of those positions at once.

[racethewind10]

i mean all of this but like. they very much have 'just done human trials' like i understand where you think you're coming from tumblr user velvetdemon and others with that perspective but that was a pretty significant thing that has happened. multiple times. and almost every single time it was a case of horrific abuse of vulnerable populations. they very much have done human-only trials.

[stuckonaglacierwithmacgyver]

I present for your consideration, some of the human trials they 'just did':

Nutrition experiments carried out on Canadian Aboriginal children in residential schools between 1942 and 1952, in which various control and experimental groups were deliberately malnourished. Also the Qu'Appelle BCG vaccine trial.

Basically everything the Australian government has done to the Aboriginal people, but especially experiments in the 20s and 30s, which tested basal metabolism by forcing subjects to lie still and breath through a rubber tube for hours, or those testing their response to pain.

Testing of a new antibiotic* on children in Kano, Nigeria, during a meningococcal meningitis outbreak, by Pfizer. The lawsuit the families and the Nigerian government brought against Pfizer also alleged that this further reduced the public's trust in vaccines and contributed to poor uptake of the polio vaccine.

The Tuskeegee Syphillis Study, which is a landmark in medical ethics fuckery that everyone should know about. The US has also carried out variations of this in so many places

Southam's experiments on prisoners using HeLa cancer cells** without their informed consent.

The Rawalpindi experiments carried out on members of the British Indian army to test mustard gas.

I'm not even going to talk about the Nazi ones.

*In this case they actually did do animal trials beforehand, which contraindicated its use in children, but I included this because it demonstrates how unethical research practice can impact public health.

**HeLa cells in themselves are also a colossal fuckup of informed consent!

[brighteyedbadwolf]

Another lab animal facility staff member here, as a vet tech

FunFact! The facility/company is SO dedicated to the welfare of their subjects that techniques to reduce mental and emotional stress on the animals brought on by repetitive tasks, interpersonal/colony stressors, industrial setting, and a shitload of other work-related stressors that they EXTRACTED THAT SHIT OUT LATERALLY INTO HOW THEY SCHEDULE AND ORGANIZE THEIR STAFF.

My schedule is fucking amazingly calibrated. I've never had burnout ONCE because my breaks and days off are timed almost exactly when the average person hits a fatigue point.

[bogleech]

Laboratory researchers in shitty media: bwahaha, how I love injecting acid into kitten's eyeballs until they explode

Laboratory researchers in real life: put up memorial statues to remind humanity how much it owes to the lives of even mice

[all-made-of-stardust]

Thank you so much for adding the examples of unethical human experiments cuz jesus christ people sometimes don't even know about that stuff.

I briefly almost worked with mice, and my cousin frequently does, and i can confirm all of the above is true. He also confirmed that yeah man, some of these mice can be valued the same as a luxury car - we don't want to fucking hurt them.

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

Reblogging this version because the additions are important - even outside of the conversation about animal testing, it is important to be aware of the history of unethical research on vulnerable humans.

However, prismatic-bell's addition about John Kanzius is nonsense, and I can't in good faith reblog this without addressing that. He did not invent a device that treats cancer and then die because no one would agree to use it on him. He had an idea about using radiowaves to heat metal nanoparticles to kill surrounding tissue, which got caught in the same issue every single cancer treatment gets caught in, which is: how do you kill cancerous cells without killing non-cancerous cells? For his device to work you would need to be able to successfully target nanoparticles into cancer cells, which was simply not possible at the time.

The companies working on his device got bogged down with legal issues in 2015 and went mostly defunct. However, in 2020 one of them did emerge with a device that has entered human clinical trials. The treatment is called hyperthermia and the idea is that it might possibly help other treatments like chemo and radiation be more effective than they would be on their own. And for those of you not clicking through to the National Cancer Institute link: It is not clear if it actually helps people live longer. Searching for clinical trials on hyperthermia produced one result: Chemoimmunotherapy Combined with Deep Hyperthermia and Spatially-fractionated Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer. This is a Phase I trial, so the primary objective is determining safety. Note that even if it does work, this is a treatment that would be used in conjunction with other cancer treatments for a very specific type of cancer, because cancer is fucking complicated.

Any time someone tells you about a singular guy who invented a method of treating cancer by doing his own research, please remember that cancer is fucking complicated and you have to actually test things before claiming that they work (with peer review/oversight to make sure you adhere to ethical standards and that you're not making stuff up).

[tcda]

[technofeudalism]

the funny thing is that i don't think younger people - and i mean those under the age of 40 - really have a grasp on how many of today's issues can be tied back to a disastrous reagan policy:

war on drugs: reagan's aggressive escalation of the war on drugs was a catastrophic policy, primarily targeting minority communities and fueling mass incarceration. the crusade against drugs was more about controlling the Black, Latino and Native communities than addressing the actual problems of drug abuse, leading to a legacy of broken families and systemic racism within the criminal justice system.

deregulation and economic policies: reaganomics was an absolute disaster for the working class. reagan's policies of aggressive tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, and slashing social programs were nothing less than class warfare, deepening income inequality and entrenching corporate greed. these types of policies were a clear message that reagan's america was only for the wealthy elite and a loud "fuck you" to working americans.

environmental policies: despite his reputation being whitewashed thanks to the recovery of the ozone layer, reagan's environmental record was an unmitigated disaster. his administration gutted critical environmental protections and institutions like the EPA, turning a blind eye to pollution and corporate exploitation of natural resources. this blatant disregard for the planet was a clear sign of prioritizing short-term corporate profits over the future of the environment.

AIDS crisis: reagan's gross neglect of the aids crisis was nothing short of criminal and this doesn't even begin to touch on his wife's involvement. his administration's indifference to the plight of the lgbtq+ community during this devastating epidemic revealed a deep-seated bigotry and a complete failure of moral leadership.

mental health: reagan's dismantling of mental health institutions under the guise of 'reform' led directly to a surge in homelessness and a lack of support for those with mental health issues. his policies were cruel and inhumane and showed a personality-defining callous disregard for the most vulnerable in society.

labor and unions: reagan's attack on labor unions, exemplified by his handling of the patco strike, was a blatant assault on workers' rights. his actions emboldened corporations to suppress union activities, leading to a significant erosion of workers' power and rights in the workplace. he was colloquially known as "Ronnie the Union Buster Reagan"

foreign policy and military interventions: reagan's foreign policy, particularly in latin america, was imperialist and ruthless. his administration's support for dictatorships and right-wing death squads under the guise of fighting "communism" showed a complete disregard for human rights and self-determination of other nations.

public health: yes, reagan's agricultural policies actually facilitated the rise of high fructose corn syrup, once again prioritizing corporate profits over public health. this shift in the food industry has had lasting negative impacts on health, contributing to the obesity epidemic and other health issues.

privatization: reagan's push for privatization was a systematic dismantling of public services, transferring wealth and power to private corporations and further eroding the public's access to essential services.

education policies: his approach to education was more of an attack on public education than anything else, gutting funding and promoting policies that undermined equal access to quality education. this was, again, part of a broader agenda to maintain a status quo where the privileged remain in power.

this is just what i could come up with in a relatively short time and i did not even live under this man's presidency. the level at which ronald reagan has broken the united states truly can't be overstated.

[typewriterchan]

There's a whole thing of people posting graphs of stuff like corporate profits vs median wages, and posting Ronald Reagan's face at the inflection point in 1980.

And a LOT of things have wild inflection points at 1980.

[zooophagous]

Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

[qonphuceingey]

I’m really starting to think you people don’t understand what university is for. You’re buying the accreditation that you can do these things. It doesn’t matter how you do them.

[talesfromtreatment]

I can assure you that how I place an IV catheter, an endotracheal tube, a splint, how I draw blood, induce anesthesia and calculate meds, and my actual knowledge of drug interactions and species limitations is of paramount importance and if I had chatgpt tell me how to do or about those things I would kill people's pets through my ignorance and incompetence

[qonphuceingey]

Then you wouldn’t be able to use chatgpt to get through college for that. What’s your point? I don’t advocate using a tool for something it can’t do.

[talesfromtreatment]

Chatgpt CAN'T DO SHIT

It is a LYING MACHINE

It is computer generated HALLUCINATIONS

And people *believe* the false information it spews out

Part of going to school is practicing THINKING and PROBLEM SOLVING and chatgpt actively makes you think and problem solve less

You don't actually know anything and can't actually troubleshoot and now you're also lazy and expecting fast answers that you don't fact check, just believe as if gifted to you by a god and not the ramblings of a conman

[evenifitshandcuffed]

Im gonna have to disagree with this. I dont use chatgpt all the time, but it sure helps narrow down a lot when doing research! You just have to be able to use it, which is a skill in itself.

Make sure to ask for sources, links, published studies, recent consensus, etc. Then you can have a starting point for whatever you need for your school/work. It's a big help, it's a little assistant. I can't wait for progress to be done so it becomes more environmentally friendly.

I agree it shouldn't be used for everything – but it shouldn't be as criticised as it is.

[talesfromtreatment]

It makes up sources and studies when asked for those.

I had the Google AI summary give a source for its claim that corn snakes can drop their tails like lizards. It linked to its source. When I clicked the link and read it, there wasn't a single mention of corn snakes dropping their tails. Because they don't.

Chatgpt pulls the same stunts. It is in fact extremely well known for making up studies and attributing them to actual authors.

It is also trained almost entirely on stolen material so its use is unethical on that front too.

It is a lying machine and should not be trusted and if you have to meticulously check over everything it tells you, you might as well just do the research yourself the first time

[dxmedstudent]

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