Healthcare Nerd

[cognitivedissonance]

I have bronchitis. Thanks to the ACA, I was able to get medicine for $0. #ThanksObama

[darthmobius]

LIES.

that came from taxes I paid.

[cognitivedissonance]

Well, let my know how much I owe you and I’ll drop a few pennies in the mail. War comes from taxes you paid, and I personally dislike the amount I pay going for that… Maybe we should check “yes” or “no” on our 1040 forms this year for allocation of tax dollars.

I’m sorry you think I’m lying, but I’m not. I qualified for the Medicaid expansion under the ACA, which is partially funded through taxpayer revenue. I don’t think the IRS mailed you a letter saying, “Nah nah nah nah naaaaaaah! This year’s tax dollars went to pay for medicine for poor people mwahahaha!” Who knows? Maybe YOUR portion of tax dollars went to a Hellfire missile that took out a village in Afghanistan. Ooh, how exciting for you!

Comfort yourself with that thought as I use my inhaler, which I would not have been able to afford without the ACA.

[lesbianshepard]

#gonna need obamacare to afford treatment for that burn jackass

[tacno-belle]

what the fuck is wrong with Americans who aren’t on board with free healthcare. I’m Canadian and I don’t care that I pay extra taxes so a little boy in Alberta can have open heart surgery, or an elderly man in Nova Scotia can get the heart medication he desperately needs. It’s called taking care of your people. I’m glad I pay so that people can have a good quality of life. It’s called being a decent fucking human being.

[cognitivedissonance]

This ↑

[agalaxywithhumanskin-deactivate]

this is really fucking important. people who do not support the well being of other humans are scary.

[tastefullyoffensive]

I will never be as cool as Scooter.

[healthcarenerd]

A couple snips and you could be.

[yumearashi]

These guys want to help pay your medical bills

Claire Elyse LaRoche had “excellent insurance” last year.

This is brilliant.  As debt collectors, they can buy medical debt for pennies on the dollar - but then they abolish it.

[healthcarenerd]

I’m starting to think pink shirts are cool.

[sciteachers]

Why an Iron Fish Can Make You Stronger

When Canadian science graduate Christopher Charles visited Cambodia six years ago he discovered that anaemia was a huge public health problem. In developing countries, such as Cambodia, the condition is particularly widespread with almost 50% of women and children suffering from the condition, which is mainly caused by iron deficiency. 

Dr Charles had a novel idea. Inspired by previous research which showed that cooking in cast iron pots increased the iron content of food, he decided to put a lump of iron into the cooking pot, made from melted-down metal.

“Boil up water or soup with the iron fish for at least 10 minutes. That enhances the iron which leaches from it. You can then take it out. Now add a little lemon juice which is important for the absorption of the iron.”

If the iron fish is used every day in the correct way, Dr Charles says it should provide 75% of an adult’s daily recommended intake of iron - and even more of a child’s.

One woman and her daughter, who are part of a current trial in Preah Vihear Province, told the BBC they would use it during cooking.

“I’m happy, the blood test results show that I have the iron deficiency problem, so I hope will be cured and will be healthy soon. I think all the people in Sekeroung village will like the fish, because fish is our everyday food.”

-> Read more about Dr. Charles’ research

-> Learn about the effects of anemia

Give this man a Nobel Prize!

For teaching: public health, human anatomy and physiology

[healthcarenerd]

Sometimes it’s simple solutions that have the greatest effect.

[healthcarenerd]

Think I’m going to have to add Binding of Isaac to that short list of games that I think are probably awesome but which are no fun at all to me.  Much like FNAF I love everything except playing it.

[healthcarenerd]

Texas ranks last in U.S. in nursing home care

Fifty-one percent of the state's 1,193 nursing homes that receive Medicare or Medicaid earned only one or two stars out of a five-star rating system, the Kaiser Family Foundation found when looking at the Nursing Home Compare database compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The star ratings, similar to those found in restaurants and hotels, offers a shorthand way to measure staffing and quality while taking into account deficiencies in care or safety issues uncovered during inspections. "Considering the most frail and vulnerable citizens in our country are living in nursing homes, this research shines the light on the important issue of nursing-home quality," Cristina Boccuti, a senior associate at the foundation and co-author of the report, said Thursday. "For some, it means choosing between quality care and a nursing home in their local community," said Patty Ducayet, state long-term care ombudsman at the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services.

Dang mooching elderly and their wanting of proper housing and care.

[manolizer]

[healthcarenerd]

I could have been a veterinarian.

[healthcarenerd]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avCB6HOjsG4) That’s...a good theory.

[mysterycatt]

reblog if u like to play the nintendos

[healthcarenerd]

America's oldest working nurse turns 90 years old

TACOMA, Wash. -- The nurses at Tacoma General Hospital packed the hallway to celebrate the birthday of Florence ‘SeeSee’ Rigney. She turned 90-years-old, and she's still working. SeeSee is the olde...

So this woman retired once, and got bored with it.  Wow.

[healthcarenerd]

Gamers have more grey matter and better brain connectivity, study suggests

As someone who has just gotten into their first MMO, only to clock an unseemly amount of hours within the first few months, I’m no stranger to the guilt that can come from habitual gaming. But the good news is there’s mounting evidence that the...

Now I’m not saying that being a gamer makes me smarter than- Actually, yes.  Yes, I’m saying that exactly.

[goldenheartedrose]

Dear hearing people

Shouting at me is not going to make me hear you better.

[billybobojangles]

Dear deaf people, not everybody knows sign language so don’t expect us to.

[goldenheartedrose]

Wow. Go fuck yourself.

[billybobojangles]

Its true, you can’t expect someone to know someone else’s language.

[goldenheartedrose]

Please tell me, how do you read something that basically says that shouting doesn’t make me magically hear you better (and is actually worse for lipreading purposes) and you get “Well you can’t expect us to bother learning asl?” Because that isn’t a logical leap. At all.

[nothings-bigger-than-love]

“Maybe if I scream they won’t be deaf anymore” bruh.

[alv529]

I’ve got better than normal hearing, and I can just string together the single handed sign language alphabet (I usually forget b, h, j, and q though). My first reaction to having to interact with a d/Deaf/Hoh person isn’t “WTF I don’t sign so I SHALL SHOUT AT THIS PERSON”. It’s “Where’s a pen and a piece of paper so we can try writing our conversations”. If writing/fingerspelling/pointing at things is what it takes, then that’s what it takes. You do whatever it takes for you to communicate.

You don’t go “Oh well I don’t speak your language, so I’ll do one of the few universally rude things and shout at you. Not my fault you don’t speak my language.”

Communication takes at least two people working on it, and you’re not absolved of that just because the person you’re communicating with can’t hear and/or understand you.

[goldenheartedrose]

All of this. More eloquently than I said it.

[lesbianlegbreaker]

I have a deaf coworker, and this happens with customers all the fucking time. You know what the other employees do? We write stuff down. We pull out our phones and use pictures. We mime. And we figure it out. He’s a smart guy and he’s good at his job, there’s no fucking reason to treat him otherwise.

And when there’s a customer who won’t stop shouting (either ignoring or misinterpreting the all caps on his nametag reading ‘I am deaf’) he just leads them other to another employee and walks away. Can’t deal with this shit, and he shouldn’t have to. 

[kkatkkrap]

My mother is hearing impaired and when she has to deal with bullshit like this, she always just smiles politely and tucks her hair behind her ear, secretly flipping off her hearing aide in her one good ear bc you are not worth her fucking time.

[healthcarenerd]

I deal with near and total deafness all the time as a nurse.  I learned how to point at things.  Remarkably effective.

[thegamefreaks]

10 years ago today.

[zombiegifs]

[memewhore]

[fex-fries-deactivated20160324]

I wish it was a joke

[redsidentevil]

has this been done

[bustedbitmap]

[portalgifs]

NO BUT YOU ALL NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW FUNNY THIS IS THEYRE LITERALLY FILLING A ROBOT WITH BULLETS, LIKE BULLETS THAT YOU FIRE FROM A GUN. NOW NORMALLY FIRING A GUN TRIGGERS THE BULLET TO EXPLODE CREATING A PRESSURE THAT CAUSES THE TIP OF THE BULLET TO BE FORCED OUT OF THE BARREL AT A HIGH SPEED. 

WHaT CAVE JOHNSON’S TURRET’S DO IS LOAD A TON OF FUCKING BULLETS INTO THE CASE OF THE SENTRY LIKE IT”S A GODDAMN GUMBALL MACHINE AND THEN USE A FUcKIN SPRING LOADED PISTON TO FIRE IT THAT IS SO UNNECESSARY AND INEFFECTIVE LIKE NO WONDER CHELL CAN RESIST SO MANY BULLETS THE LIKELIHOOD ITD CAUSE ANYTHING MORE THAN A BAD BRUISE IS LIKE ONE IN A HUNDRED

[monasticmaestoso]

but it’s 65% more bullet per bullet

[ryanccole]

Wait a second are you telling me

that Portal is such a perfect goddamn game that they even have an explanation for why a video game protagonist can withstand being shot multiple times??????????

[kali-ddong-deactivated20150504]

(Sorry if I make your dash ugly!)

“Are you wearing a mask?” “When are you getting your face fixed?” “Look at that girl! She looks so weird…”

These are the three most common reactions to my appearance.

My name is Kali, I am 18, I am a Korean-American, and I… look different.

I was born with a medical condition that (clearly) affects my face. Essentially my lymphatic system can’t properly circulate fluid so the excess fluid builds up in my face. It is difficult to remove because the tumor-like masses can interfere with my nervous and circulatory systems. Sure, I’ve had many, many surgeries done, but there is very little chance I will ever look “normal”.

They say to never judge a book by its cover. I always tried to live by that mantra. I went to a summer math program when I was 14 and was assigned a roommate. The moment I walked into the dorm room, she spoke to one of our counselors and requested a roommate change.

I never cried so hard in my life.

A book is more than its cover. I’m a Starbucks addict. I play three instruments. I write poetry. And you wouldn’t know that by looking at my face.

A person in more than his or her face. I’ve struggled to fit in at college for this reason- that people still feel hesitant to talk to me because of my appearance. They say rude things behind my back. I had grown up with the same people from elementary school through high school, so people were used to me. I hoped people would learn to accept me in college, but I haven’t found that yet.

You can’t exactly tell Stanford students that they’re stupid, can you?

I guess the reason I’m posting this is to introduce myself, and to tell my story. I don’t want to be an inspiration. I’m not a hero. I’ve simply learned to accept myself.

Someday I hope others here do, too.

My name is Kali, I am 18, I am a Korean-American, and I… am more than my appearance.

[healthcarenerd]

Hi Kali, I’m Dave.