Who will decide? this woman will, or anyone having their rights threatened will decide. I'm saying she appeared to have made a poor decision in this case. While she may be within her rights, you have to remember that cops are just flawed people like everyone else and all she had to do is look at them, smile answer their standard, non-invasive question, and be on her way. Now if they said they wanted to look in the trunk or something then I'd agree with her. But refusing to say hello? or refusing to acknowledge that another human is even speaking to you? just why?

I contracted for non-invasive inspection with ARDEC back in 2001. We have the technology to scan these bullets at an extremely fast rate (1000+ bullets/sec) using Photoelectric Effect and Compton Scattering and single out the bad powder using electron density and Z effecitive. We can definitely help the insurgence avoid these traps if politics weren't in the way.

Only one of those treatments is still being used to levels effectiveness today. And that's the lamps.
Light treatment to help alleviate depressed symptoms from seasonal affective disorder (seasonal caused depression) has shown to be helpful to people. It's also quite non-invasive and can be done in your own home.

>> ^BoneyD:
An echocardiogram doesn't necessarily help a patient directly per se, because it's not a 'treatment' procedure. It's used to accurately diagnose conditions in the heart without the need to open the chest, etc. They were a significant advancement in cardiology due to the non-invasive nature and should not be misunderstood as being useless.
It's important to understand what he probably means here: That he's talking about echos ordered when the condition of the patient is already known or can be more easily determined via other means.


That's a really good point. If he's trying to draw a line between frequency of using EKGs for diagnostics and "the survival of elderly people in the year following a severe heart attack"; that doesn't necessarily make any sense even as a correlation.

If diagnostic EKGs accomplish their goal; to identify those with heart damage so they can be targeted for preventative care, those borderline patients are taken out of the pool of patients that goes on to have heart attacks. Meaning that when we ONLY look at those who go on to have severe heart attacks, we're looking at a group of people with worse hearts relative to the sample you'd expect if no preventative care had been given.

But still, he's absolutely right in general that our health care spending is incredibly inefficient. So upvote for the first two graphs and how well they were presented.

An echocardiogram doesn't necessarily help a patient directly per se, because it's not a 'treatment' procedure. It's used to accurately diagnose conditions in the heart without the need to open the chest, etc. They were a significant advancement in cardiology due to the non-invasive nature and should not be misunderstood as being useless.

It's important to understand what he probably means here: That he's talking about echos ordered when the condition of the patient is already known or can be more easily determined via other means.