Unfortunately, that’s not an uncommon experience. For some reason a lot of parents who normally wouldn’t leave their kids unsupervised with a 700 pound piece of industrial machinery, are completely okay with letting them operate and drive a 700 pound piece of equipment with virtually no safety features.
Every crash is a bit different, but overall tbi are the most dangerous aspects of survivable motorcycles mva. For the most part, fractures aren’t as big of a deal as one would first think. Mostly because if you end up laying your bike down and then hit something at speed you’re either dead, or in such bad shape that fractures are the least of your worries.
Soft tissue damage is usually what you’ll see in accidents not involving another vehicle. Lots of gnarly hematoma, lacerations, and friction burns, which will need to be debrided by a nurse with an acrylic brush and saline. Judging by the amount of tough biker dudes I’ve seen scream and cry for their moms during brushy brushy time…it seems like one of the more painful things that happen in the trauma ward.
Oh, and last but not least… Motorcycle mva are one of the most common reasons for traumatic based castrations. In accidents where the rider is ejected forward, their boys will make some pretty extreme contact with the fuel tank. Causing them to swell up to the size of mangos, which often leads to the need for surgical removal.
Not that it should be mandated by law, but that it’s simply the wise thing to do. Then people are like 'wELL I gUeSs YoU ShOUld THeN wEaR a HElmEt whiLE walKinG tOo
I don’t think people really understand just how devastating head injuries can be, and just how easy it is to get a tbi when on a surface as hard as concrete.
Even when doing something as simple as walking/running on wet concrete is deceptively dangerous. Every summer the trauma ward I work in has to deal with dozens of kids acquiring life altering tbi for doing something as mundane as running near a pool.
The ironic thing about bikers not wanting to wear helmets is that if you’re not lucky, you’ll end up being fit with a soft shell one at the hospital after you’ve bashed your head anyways. I’ve fit a bunch of people with orthopedic helmets for not wearing helmets over the years.
Please don’t forgot to wear a helmet when riding on 4 wheelers or ATVs.
Also, just because it claims to be an all terrain vehicle doesn’t make it true. I would avoid riding these in any wooded areas or on sloped or rough terrain while riding solo.
I work in a trauma ward that has an ATV season. I feel like the stigma of wearing helmets has reduced over the years, as I’m having to put less people in orthopedic helmets every year. However, there are just as many people getting crushed by their vehicles.
4 wheelers have a nasty habit of rolling and pinning their riders. If this happens and you’re alone it can easily cripple or kill you. One of the more common severe injuries is having your leg pinned against the motor or exhaust and having your leg or arm slowly cooked to the point where they need to be amputated.
I’m guessing it’s an older apple tree? Because my two establishing plumb trees take a lot more work than a couple hours a year.
Most of the effort for fruit trees is spent getting them established and shaped the way you want. After 10-15 years of growth they mostly take care of themselves, but depending on your environment the first 5-10 can take a lot of time and effort just to keep them alive.
Public trees already have a maintenance schedule and budget, public fruit trees don’t need to be about filling hungry people, they’re just as much about finding small moments of joy in your community.
Unfortunately, fruiting trees take a lot more maintenance just to keep alive, even moreso if you want them to produce anything worth eating.
I have two plum trees in my front yard that I planted about 5 years ago and they take about as much work to maintain as a small garden patch. Modern fruit trees aren’t really natural, they’ve been bred over time to produce more and more fruit. With so much of its energy going to produce fruit, it leaves them more susceptible to disease and especially pests.
If you like gardening it’s a great little hobby, but I couldn’t imagine the amount of work it would take to maintain hundreds or even dozens of public trees. Plus, I’m not so sure how comfortable I would be eating the fruits of trees absorbing all the petrochemicals from road wash.
I think the first sentence is probably enough to make anyone not afflicted with a eurocentric brain want to palm some face.
I think excusing it as a “not serious” statement is dangerous, as a lot of people even on Lemmy won’t second guess it.
The belief that the west is the origin of all science and culture is surprisingly pervasive, especially in the tech industry.
so you kind of overdose most of the time as the cannabis from then is not the same as the cannabis from now. It’s something entirely different now and what association you had with it is not valid anymore.
Lol, you can’t “overdose” on cannabis, unless over dosing is just taking a nap.
my personal friendships are several people who have lost family members to cannabis, either by schizophrenia or them getting smushy in the brain and stranding on the street or living by at minimum wage and healthcare.
Kinda just sounds like your using cannabis as an excuse to abandon your friends and family going through a rough patch.
healthcare for psychological evaluation and coordinating hospitalization and care. When cannabis was legalized some time ago, all who are working there could not believe their ears and eyes, they were horrified
Lol, you are clutching at pearls. I work in a hospital in an area of the US that’s known for addiction. No one here cares about pot because it’s nothing compared to dealing with patients addicted to meth, alcohol, or opioids. All of which are less popular now that pot is more widely available.
Prob isn’t going to change your mind, but tobacco and alcohol both have higher chances of inducing some form of psychosis than cannabis.
CIP isn’t very well studied yet, and is mostly symptomatic in patients that indulge in prolonged and heavy cannabis use at a young age. There hasn’t been enough evidence collected to rule out correlative conditions like schizophrenia, which is known to be exacerbated by any psychoactive substance unlike cannabis.
There are of course people who shouldn’t smoke cannabis on a regular basis, but for the most part, cannabis is a healthier choice for most healthy adults than alcohol, tobacco, and a large amount of prescription drugs.
Don’t. I already did a little write up about this a while ago, I work in orthotics and prosthetics.
This device was created by an 3d printer artist and tested by a cognitive science lab. It’s really not a medical device, and wasn’t tested to the same degree that medical devices are subjected too.
When testing devices that are actually made to help the disabled, the criteria isn’t just that the pt can utilize it, but that the utilization the device provides is greater than what the patient would be able to do without it.
None of the actions done by the second thumb are things you wouldn’t be able to do as an amputee in the first place. People are highly adaptive and will figure out ways to utilize their body or what’s left of their amputated limbs.
There are a few reasons this will never be utilized by disabled people. The largest one being that foot controls aren’t ever used in upper limb prosthetics, mainly because they only work when you are sitting, or standing still. If this has been made by a prosthetic lab they would have used myoelectrics, the same tech we’ve had for like 40 years.
Secondly, how is an amputee or disabled person going to don this device by themselves. A medical device that’s meant to give you more independence also requires help to put on?
And lastly, the main benefit of having a thumb in the first place is that it is opposible. The thumb isn’t really useful by itself, it’s meant to work in conjunction with other fingers for manipulation. If you wanted another place to hold or pin something in place you would just stick it in the crease of your elbow.
It’s a neat art project, but pretty limited as far as a prosthetic device. My main criticism is for the cognitive lab that partnered with the artist in the first place. The university is using this as a marketing device for their department, and shouldn’t be claiming it’s a medical device. If they were serious about it they would be partnering with actual orthotist or prosthetist or a biomedical engineering department, not cognitive science.
I think it’s more so that people don’t have the time for a productive garden. There are certain times of the year that my small garden becomes the workload equivalent to a part time job.
With composting, weeding, killing squash bugs, seeding, planting, harvesting, and pickling… I can see why people opt to do something less time consuming.
I think I may have found the answer? After researching a little bit it looks like Abu al Abyad, the island above the elongated rectangles is actually an international military testing facility. This article , and a couple similar to it alluded that the area is for testing naval equipment and amphibious landings.
There are similar man made pools of salt water in desert condition that the US utilizes for radar testing at the China Lake research facility in California.
Man, odd stuff always happens when the programming team hangs out with the boys in marketing.
I cannot and will not subscribe to this notion that lying to people for pay is an ethical career. During my one stint in marketing, I got to the point of feeling physically ill that I was making the best money in my life to write saccharine copy about products we internally mocked our customers for buying
I hope this helps more than it hurts to hear, but there is no such thing as an ethical career. Capitalism always finds a way to usurp any meaningfully good gesture and corrupt it with a profit motive.
I work as a provider at a children’s hospital, and I get to do a lot of good. But I also get to tell people that I can’t help them, and not because I physically can’t, but because they don’t have the coverage. I am responsible for putting already economically disenfranchised families in even more debt, because Dad worked too hard and made too much money to qualify for Medicaid. The system makes us complicit.
I honestly don’t know how I can find a job that makes life worth living at this point
I don’t think anyone’s job should be the only reason they get up in the morning. Even if you had the best job in the world…a job isn’t a substitution for a life.
but I don’t like selling myself through insipid, meaningless prose just because it’s what others want to hear.
Ethics are subjective, and you have a right to stick to your own. However, I don’t think you should feel guilty or bad about guilding your resume. Most. HR managers have no idea what they’re asking for and as I said, no job is really ethical.
If my work knew about all the free healthcare I gave out, they would have some ethical complaints. And I have some ethical complaints for them pertaining to the price of healthcare. So as a compromise I give out as much free healthcare as I can get away with, and they don’t ask too many questions. Sometimes a decent compromise is the best we can do as individuals in this country.
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That’s okay, I hear having a fragile ego is actually part of French culture. You know with French culture being diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder and all that.
I hope you guys really get some help.
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Nah doing the same thing would be claiming that France’s culture is afflicted with narcissistic personality disorder.
French culture is entirely based on an unreasonably high sense of it’s own importance. It needs and seeks too much attention and wants other cultures to admire them. Cultures with this disorder may lack the ability to understand or care about the cultures of others. But behind this mask of extreme confidence, their culture is not sure of their self-worth and are easily upset by the slightest criticism.
You’re French, right?
Have you been dipping into your manga collection for sources?
Yeah, pediatric care is both tremendously rewarding and horrendously soul crushing depending on what department you’re working in. You eventually build up some callouses over the years, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit summers haven’t lost some of its luster because of my job.
Engaging with families who went from having some of the best time of their lives to the worst moments of their existence over the course of the evening is still tough.