Agree with this almost 100%. If you trust your agent and your agent recommends someone, it’s probably OK. Otherwise, everything else is on point. My inspector directly told me it’s both good to pick an independent inspector and to come with him/her on the inspection. He told point blank, that he has different…

I LOVE this thermometer! It’s so reassuring to know your food is cooked to temperature.

I LOVE this thermometer! It’s so reassuring to know your food is cooked to temperature.

At first the recipes took a long time for me to make too, as in way longer than the estimates on the recipes. Now, I find that it takes less time than they estimate, partly because some of the steps are predictable (don’t need to keep looking at the recipe) and partly because I’ve altered them (Do you really need to…

Maybe this is just me, but I already suspected those markings were for pipes and intertubes and whatnot. I guess I expected this article to tell me how to interpret these markings. Do different cities use different markings? Are colors standardized (they are! Kind of...)? Are they legally required, or just a good…

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

As someone who grew up in “The South”, I just wished my school had Sex Ed at all!

While I think this guy deserves the chair, it’s policy in most police departments to put people on suspension while they investigate. You know, innocent until proven guilty? If only they treated EVERYONE that way...

It isn’t just PhD researchers that are at risk of losing their jobs. There are plenty of MD’s already planning their exits right now.

I remember doing this in the autopsy suite!

Most children have a higher metabolic rate than most adults, since they’re trying to add mass, height, weight etc, in order to become adults. It takes a lot of sugar to turn a 40 lbs kid into a 150 lbs adult!

I know, right? I don’t want to pay $1900 for a 1 BR in Rockville/Bethesda!

Sounds like you’re describing an ICD or internal cardiac defibrillator. It’s good for those pesky, intermittent arrhythmias that are really hard to catch on the monitors (even Holters suck sometimes), especially if they’re the life-threatening kind of arrhythmia.

Forgot to add: Being an inner city ED, the hypothermia patients usually got glucose and thiamine from their rampant alcoholism.

Theoretically, yes, but not really. Plunging them into the hot tub will send them into shock because all the capillaries in the skin will open and basically drain your innards of blood (leaving less for your heart and brain). Your poor heart would encounter even more stress trying pump up the blood pressure in…

They did. Adjusting for “amount” of sex decreased the risk in their calculations, but it was still significant (both statistically and meaningfully; 90% —> 80% increased risk, by odds ratio). The one major thing they left out was incorporating condom usage. I think that’s an obvious and major oversight.