eragone
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Medicine, science, music and rock climbing enthusiast. Former software engineer (finance and healthcare). Now an emergency medicine resident physician.
ellie.ragone at gmail
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There’s actually another company called SleepMe (or maybe that’s the product…?) that makes a mattress cover that’s water cooled (or warmed) As a night shifter it’s completely life changing in allowing me to sleep…
Personally I use it more as a reminder than an official reference. So, for example, reminders of less common diagnoses or less common presentations of common diagnoses that I’ve learned and know but may not remember the…
Both - I spent 6 years not making any salary, plus another 4 making less than a software engineer, and on top of that I took on a lot of debt.
No, this sounds like a great example of shared decision making.
Not sure where you went to med school, but couldn't be different for me for med school and residency. Very little of being a doctor has to do with money. If I wanted money, I would have stayed in software and not gone…
I’ve had the opposite experience. I get lenses recommended, then a repeat visit in about a month to check for lens fit and adjust as needed.
Changing careers. Left software to become a doctor. I'll graduate in 7 months.
Went to medical school. It's about as much fun as going to medical school can be, but I'm much happier than I was in software (I think?).
Strokes can present in truly any number of ways. The Cincinnati Stroke Scale, often seen in public health campaigns as "FAST", provides three simple, quick assessments that can reliably delineate a majority of strokes.…