Afib, which commonly causes palpitations, should be seen in the ER if you can't get in to your PCP that day. Could be caused by a lot of things and a work up is warranted including lab work, echo, etc if new.

If you in the US, you're primary care doc's office wil havel an after hours number to call if you're not sure. Unfortunately you'll likely be told to go to the ER if it's heart related because we have to err on the side of caution since we can't evaluate you very well over the phone. Urgent cares are hit or miss since they're staffed mostly by mid levels who may or may not be well trained but they can handle sore throats/colds, simple cuts/infections/foreign objects, STD testing, etc. depending on their facilities. I've been to one without basic labs which is crazy. I'd suggest calling you doc's office first to see if they have acute visit slots that day. A lot will.

I just got a 8BitDo pro 2 because every PlayStation controller for the last 4yrs has broken in less than 6 months and it's great. Feels good, connects over Bluetooth, and has Hall effect joysticks that aren't prone to drift, which was the Sony controller main issue. All for $50. I think I'm done with Sony controllers.

An opthalmologist is an eye doctor. They go to medical school and do a residency for extra training. Optometrists have doctorates in optometry meaning they do four more years of school after their bachelor's. They can call themselves doctor because in the US that's the convention for doctorate's (in Europe ony medical doctors use the term). There's avast difference in intensity, depth, bredth, etc. of training between the two. It's easy to miss the difference if you're not familiar with the system.

Oof this is definitely wrong. A blood thinner is one of the most important things whether a patient is taking or not. It's the nurses job to let the doctor know whether the patient is compliant not only for medical reasons but for documentation. That's outside the argument about profit in healthcare in US, that's basic medicine. What if that patient falls and hits their head? Do we need to know if they're on s blood thinner? What if they're hemoglobin starts dropping? What if they need a procedure? What tif their platelets start dropping? Etc, etc, etc.

Don't be a dick and not do your job, that makes your coworkers miserable and puts people in danger especially in medicine. I agree with burlit being and issue and chronic understaffing but be an adult and quit or move positions if you don't like it.

It's not that CPR doesn't work, it's that outcomes after resuscitation usually aren't great. The study doesn't disclose ages or neurological outcomes post-rescuscitation so that limits my interpretation but quick rescue and quick CPR is key in those acute, single reason emergencies. That isn't to say in an emergency situation you shouldn't try especially since you don't know that person's wishes. There are good outcomes but usually for underlying healthy people who had one thing go wrong. Think the athlete who's heart stops on the field for some reason.

I've admitted at least a thousand people into a hospital through the ER and I tell everyone that it's not like on TV. If you're older, sick, multiple chronic diseases, don't take care of yourself, etc. the chances of any kind of quality of life after CPR is limited. Death is terrifying and I understand them wanting to try but it's just not realistic a lot of the time. We need better deaths in the US and more in-depth end-of-life conversations with our patients. That should be starting in the PCP's office. Trying to discuss that with a patient in the ER who's already scared isn't ideal. I've seen patients with do not resuscitate/do not intubate orders on file change their mind when they're suffocating and panicking then once they're more stable immediately change their mind back.

Do you have a link for the paper that describes the process for converting blood into stem cells? Curious how they went about it because making red blood cells into stem cells would be hard since they have no nucleus and no DNA. I googled but couldn't find anything about how they do it.

Gave Fallout 76 a shot again after trying it early in it's release and quitting due the travesty it was (also because I was disappointed in Starfield). It's good now, very similar feel to 4 though with some differences. It's a Fallout game so not perfect but the feeling of endless possibilities you get when stepping out of the vault for the first time is classic Fallout.

Couple of things it could be:

1. You locked your knees without realizing it, shut down the blood return from your legs, then had a drop in blood pressure due to decreased blood return to your heart causing you to pass out.
2. You took a big hit, expanded your chest, held it, decreased blood flow through your thoracic cavity due to the increased intrathoracic pressure then a blood pressure drop as above.
3. Your vasovagaled yourself somehow (bearing down on a held hit maybe or just due to weed effects) which is increased parasympathetic nervous system tone that drops blood pressure
4. Some weird shit 🤷🏼‍♂️, the body can be odd and changes as we age so maybe you just can't smoke weed now cause of the earlier mentioned weird shit

I agree with your doc (I'm a family med physician), don't smoke if all of a sudden you're passing out.

Fucking not 9lbs that's for sure. Around 1/2lb usually.

I can't speak for every hospital since I've only worked at a few but this is rare. Some places might still be doing it, dumping people who can't be placed or don't have insurance, but EMTLA was put in place to combat that stuff and the lawsuit and probably fines would make this a bad move. We've kept people where I work for months because we can't place them or psych won't take them. At minimum they're going to a nursing home.

I just finished Breath of the Wild and was thinking I wanted a zkorok for around the house. I'd definitely buy the drunk Korok