This Researcher Warned of Unnecessary, Risky Vascular Procedures. She Was Called a “Nazi” and Accused of “Fratricide.”
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After Dr. Caitlin Hicks and her team revealed that some #doctors appeared to be overusing lucrative vascular procedures, performing them on patients who may not have needed them, they received hostile pushback from across the profession.

#Health #HealthCare #Medicare #Doctor #Patients #Hospital #News #Surgery

https://www.propublica.org/article/researchers-warned-of-possible-vascular-procedure-abuse-doctors-pushed-back?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

New: Rite Aid secretly scanned shoppers with facial recognition for years, leading to false shoplifting accusations, "embarrassment, harassment and other harm," the FTC says. The chain banned workers from talking about it, and errors were common; one 11-year-old girl was distraught after being searched due to a false match. “Every black man is not [a] thief nor should they be made to feel like one"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/19/ftc-rite-aid-facial-recognition/

things you expect to burn yourself on when soldering and doing rework:
- the iron
- the hot air gun

things you actually burn yourself on:
- the tweezers you forget you had under hot air
- the solder braid you’re holding despite it touching an iron four inches away
- that PCB you just hot air’d but couldn’t wait long enough before you grabbed it
- the damned mounting/shield pins on SMA connectors

This is great: you type your zip code into the app, and you're shown a complete list of books prohibited in your area; then download the e-reader, and these books are available to download.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/18/us-teens-banned-books-schools

I wonder if the book-banners will end up making these books more widely read than they ever were in libraries?

Oh.

Oh no.
#foraging #FunghiFriday #Mushtodon #Funghi