A #Hospital Kept a Brain-Damaged Patient on Life Support to Boost Statistics. His Sister Is Now Suing for #Malpractice.
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The lawsuit follows a ProPublica investigation that revealed that the heart transplant team at Newark Beth Israel let pressure to maintain survival rates guide medical decisions.
#News #Lawsuit #Medical #Ethics #Doctors #Health #Healthcare #Surgery #Accountability #HIPAA #NewJersey
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That's wild. The hospital cited their position as one of the top-rated programs, in response to the accusation that they were gaming the rating system. 'Of course we didn't cheat - we WON!' ๐ธ
โNewark Beth Israel Medical Center is one of the top heart transplant programs in the nation..."
This is a deeply troubling situation. ๐ฅ๐
Itโs essential that patient care is prioritized over statistics.
I really hope this lawsuit brings attention to the need for ethical practices in healthcare!
2024 BSDCan financial report: blog.bsdcan.org/2024/09/
As you can see, we rely heavily on the generosity of sponsors who care about educating the community. If you'd like to discuss sponsorship for 2025, you can reach us at funding@bsdcan.org.
The ops team did a lot of work to make BSDCan 2024 happen, trying to preserve the old while nurturing the future.
Of the things we changed, I'm most proud of the shwarma lunch and the financial report. โฌ๏ธ
Harvard students make auto-doxxing smart glasses to show need for privacy regs
Linking Meta smart glasses to a face search engine can ID strangers in a glance.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20โฆ
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Despite all this, Martin is still a law school dean and active member of prestigious legal institutions, including ethics and election law committees.
In May, a far-right group floated him as a potential Supreme Court nominee. interc.pt/4dB9o5Y
Interesting news for PineNote users: an apparently fairly solid Debian image?
I got one of the first batch three years ago and I've quite enjoyed reading and annotating PDFs and even ePUBs with the primitive Android spin it came with.
But real Linux would be a big improvement, both for freedom and for software quality.
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Elon Musk Gave Tens of Millions to Republican Causes Far Earlier Than Previously Known (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-mโฆ
memeorandum.com/241002/p67#a24โฆ
Good point. I only remember 2 passwords: Password manager and computer. Normally a conservative analysis would assume password leaked in hashed form and cracked offline. But on my Mac, if I understand correctly, the risk of leakage should be zero-ish, no?
Excluding keyloggers, assuming the key is not tied to an enclave (at least true for all cross platforms password managers I know of) the only possible vector is some kind of local information leak (a hostile app, memory vulns, a leaked backup etc.) If you trust that nothing bad will ever get to your computer yes it is safe, otherwise it is not: the password will be the last defense.
(Creds: former cyber security analyst)
#DIY gift recipe for #nerds: Hacker Multi-Boot Drive!
1) Get a USB enclosure: USB 4.0 is best, but anything that says 20Gbps is fine; amzn.to/3BsEiQB
2) Get an M.2 NVMe: PCIe 4.0 is best, but 3.0 works too;
amzn.to/3zJFOgM
3) Install #Ventoy ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html
4) Load up with ISOs: #memtest #clonezilla #hiren #systemRescue and #gparted for getting old computers working. #ubuntu #mint or some other #linux. #kali for h4x0ring.
5) Decorate!
Wrote up a blogpost covering the most common AGPL misconceptions I see based upon my experience of looking into open source licensing over the last couple of years:
aka.ms/posette-2024-postgres-eโฆ
#postgres #databases #OpenSource #community
Itโs not all about the presidential race and its few core swing states: Beyond the battle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, voters are deciding tens of thousands of other offices and ballot measures.
Hereโs what weโre watching: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ballโฆ
#JDVance Is Anti-Family
"JD Vance touts himself as being pro-family, but he voted against a bill that would have protected IVF treatments. He opposes Universal Child Care programs and he missed a recent Senate vote to expand the child tax credit. Doesn't seem very pro-family does it?"
youtu.be/WxoR9V2GWKs
#USPolitics @uspolitics
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