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    I saw somebody have a seizure today at a restaurant

    in The Shower

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    I went to Easter mass with my dad a few years ago, and an elderly man collapsed during the service...It started by hearing a woman call out 'Father!' at some point during a reading, and the priest eventually noticed what was happening and asked any medical personnel to attend to him. A few people jogged over and started administering CPR, and after a minute or so the guy came to and let out the most unbelievable gasp as he finally breathed in (I'll seriously never forget that sound).

    What are you playing today?

    in The Spawn Point

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    19 hours ago, Dodger said:

    Played a ton of Witcher 3 the past week. I think I might actually make it Skellige at some point soon. But I think I'm gonna give it a little break. Been playing some Dark Souls Remastered today. Just started a quality build. I think the problem with these games is I try to get too fancy with my builds. Just going to keep it simple and go through the game. Also use an Int build sometimes just to see how OP Dark Bead and Pursuers really are. 

     

    All of my Souls builds (except for DS2; fucking ADP) follow the same pattern: level VIT - END - STR equally until they are all 30-32, level STR up to 35, then get DEX to 25.  I know it's not quality but it's always worked for me.

    What have you learned today?

    in The Shower

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    This is a thread to discuss what we have learned today (whatever day that may be).

     

     

    Today while reading the fabulous SPQR by Mary Beard (which I have been woefully slow getting into), I learned about the legend of Romulus and Remus, who were said to have been suckled by a wolf after being left for dead (it's thought that detail may be rooted in the Latin word 'lupa', which means wolf, but was also slang for a prostitute, i.e. they were cared for by a whore). I also learned about Rome's original roots as a city of asylum and the rape of the Sabines (which the Romans needed to grow the city).

    Rural health care is dying

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/us/hospital-closing-missouri-pregnant.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

     

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    The white, 116-bed hospital had been a busy lifeline for this 31,000-person county’s most vulnerable people. The emergency room received about 22,000 visits a year, and unlike many struggling hospitals, the maternity ward was busy. About 400 babies were born at Twin Rivers every year, often to mothers who had themselves been born in the same rooms.

     

    About 95 percent of the hospital’s patients were on Medicare, Medicaid or had no insurance, said Dr. Steve Pu, a former member of the hospital’s advisory board. Rural hospitals like Kennett’s are being financially battered by several factors: Cuts to public health-insurance programs, struggles with debt and sharply worsening finances in states that did not expand Medicaid.

     

    In April, Twin Rivers announced it would be shutting down as part of a corporate consolidation by its owner, Community Health Systems, a publicly traded, for-profit hospital company. In a statement announcing the closing, the hospital’s local chief executive, Christian H. Jones, called it the “most sustainable plan for the future.”

     

    Patients say they were told to seek care at another Community Health Systems hospital in Poplar Bluff, about 50 miles away down narrow two-lane roads. The hospital in Kennett had about 300 employees, the largest employer in a county with a 5.5 percent unemployment rate.

     

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