A novel strategy for detecting complications, using a reusable device commercially available for tens of dollars that can be operated by a child, published by emergency physician specializing in breathing issues. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html … You can predict all the disclaimers.
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Working at Stripe you must be aware of this, but: the paperwork requirements are there because of fraud. This is also true in medicine.
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It is my ambient impression that every piece of paperwork in the world has some reason for existing, or some set of reasons. Sometimes those reasons are very worthy ones. Sometimes "We don't exactly remember but we've been filling this out forever." Sometimes less worthy.
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I think the main tradeoff with publishing this widely is that ppl will come to the hospitals who shouldn't and make the ERs too busy. Many sick patients are just being sent home with advice to monitor their oxygen, and lay on stomach (who would have been hospitalized in the past)
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But one of the first things I learned from my wife in mid-March was about the patients who seemed mostly OK but had crazy low oxygen levels. There's a case for careful publishing and research, but sometimes I think you have to just tell the public honest observations.
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It is worth noting that my Samsung Galaxy can operate as a pulse oximeter.
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