medgremlin

4 years of medical school and a few years of residency (and maybe fellowship) in pathology. So you're talking 12 to 16 years of post-high school education because it's becoming more and more common to have to have a post-bacc or a master's to get into medical school in the first place.

I'm an American medical student, and I got this score as well, but that's mostly because they kept throwing in drugs that were never marketed or approved in the US and thankfully, they don't make us memorize all the drugs, just the generic names of ones used in America.

While Russia is fascist as heck, it is still substantially easier to emigrate from Russia than it is to emigrate from North Korea. Also, while there is a powerful state media in Russia, they do not have complete (or near complete) control over every line of communication in and out of the country as is the case in North Korea. There's also the matter of relative wealth and ability to defy/evade government control by way of travel/media consumption/emigration.

They're referring to the title of the post. I was confused about that one too.

I tended to get them when I was logging in regularly. I figure 2k hours for me and around another 2k hours for my friend is worth the amount I've paid in. It's pennies per hour of entertainment and it's a better game with a nicer community than a lot of the AAA titles out there. Also, to my knowledge, DE seems to treat their employees fairly well and I would rather give my money to that kind of studio as opposed to the more abusive ones out there.

I've paid DE a fair amount of money over the years, but I only ever buy plat when I get the 75% off coupons (which has happened bizarrely often to me) and when I was working. I have over 2k hours in Warframe, and I feel like I was also covering my friend that I play with for when they were unemployed and couldn't buy anything. Most of my plat goes to gifts for my friends and the occasional shiny thing for myself.

I also really appreciate the fact that it is perfectly possible to get the premium currency without spending a penny yourself through the trading system. Not to mention the fact that there isn't any content behind a paywall. You can skip some RNG grind or get cosmetics, but the premium currency won't buy you anything you can't get otherwise.

(I am probably going to pay for the Tennocon access pass though because the exhibitions and Baro at the relay are actually super awesome)

That was Ben Shapiro's wife who, I believe, is a physician. She's got some interesting cognitive dissonance going on.

Bullets are a lot more expensive than bandages most of the time.

(Edit: that is not to say that this is a reasonable allocation of resources in this situation. The appropriate ratio would be zero bullets and a couple dozen new, fully equipped hospitals and several hundred well-stocked kitchens.)

I was just looking for a game like this earlier today. This is perfect!

It's the equipment used to sterilize the primary equipment that can take up an absurd amount of space. Autoclaves are not small.

Part of what I was saying is that the fermentation barrels cannot be reused for other drugs. Also, with any biologically produced product in pharmaceuticals, they need to do extensive testing on each batch to ensure that there have not been any mutations or other contamination or production errors. The manufacturing of medicine is a highly regulated and monitored process that requires the manufacturer to meet a rather long list of criteria before the drug can be sold. Also, with bacterial populations, the larger the vat, the higher likelihood that a problematic mutation will occur and spread to a degree that would cause problems.

Normally, I'm all for getting out the torches and pitchforks for pharma companies, but there are some other considerations when it comes to penicillins. Due to the prevalence and severity of penicillin allergies, penicillin drugs basically have to be made in facilities dedicated to just that to avoid cross-contamination. If they used any of the same equipment (even packaging equipment) there would be too high a risk of causing allergic reactions via contamination of other medications, and there would be no way to tell which ones are contaminated.

The fix to this problem is to spread out the licensing and allow more companies to produce penicillins in appropriate facilities as opposed to leaving it in the hands of a single conglomerate.