A job where I work three 12-hour shifts per week, so at least my sleep deprived misery is limited to less than half my days.
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Doxylamine is actually better than diphenhydramine. It has less anticholinergic side effects.
Anticholinergics are really bad for your brain long term. I've started taking an herbal supplement called apigenin, which is derived from chamomile flowers that works surprisingly well. And I say that as a fellow night owl chronic insomniac.
Ketamine doesn't carry the risk of respiratory depression and hypotension that other sedatives and pain killers do. No risk that you might have to immediately intubate someone.
Push and pull technique.
Push: bitter spray or cayenne pepper on plant leaves to discourage biting
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Pull: cat grass and lots of cat toys. Seriously, buy more toys. Give them something else to focus on.
I believe that your bodily autonomy ends at your ability to infect my body with your germs. Stop trying to commandeer the rhetoric of abortion rights and pretending the two situations are analogous because they are not.
Vaccination is more like requiring people to carry car insurance. Because what you do is going to affect me.
HPV is a leading cause of oral and throat cancers in men. Everyone should be getting the HPV vaccine.
Sodium response is a lot more complicated than that, and a more accurate metric is probably dietary sodium:potassium ratio.
It's Texas. Best they can do is the 5th Circuit.
Sometime in the past ten years, my doctors started being younger than I am, and I'm still conflicted about it.
I'm a nurse in my late 40s, and I still have to open conversations with my elderly patients "Mister Smith" "Mizz Smith" when I first meet them. I can't help myself; it's how I was raised haha
Sorry I was only addressing the reasoning behind paramedics being allowed to administer ketamine in the field and not other drugs. And reviewing this case, I don't see any indication for haloperidol either. They should not have drugged this person at all:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Elijah_McClain
But we should have teams of psychiatric professionals who are qualified to administer things like haloperidol responding to emergency calls that are specifically stated to be for psychiatric crises. I don't really want random paramedics in charge of choosing when to administer haloperidol, which can have significant and permanent side effects even after one dose.