Recent content by growlers

Great suggestions, thanks. I am going to hunt down some Pikesville and try it again, since it's been a while. The kinda hard (but also fun) thing is that as you try more stuff, your tastes evolve, and then you have different opinions of what you thought you liked/disliked. I actually...

I lurk this thread and have learned a lot, thanks everyone! I have what I think is a fairly specific question. Over the last couple years I have been trying a variety of stuff, culminating in a recent Louisville / Lexington area trip. Went to Michter's, Old Forester, Bulleitt, Wild Turkey...

Why is morphine terrible? Used it almost exclusively in the ER unless there was a shortage And to OP: I would consider it poor medical practice to withhold pain meds from a 17 year old who "was in a lot of discomfort and pain after the accident", waiting on parental permission. Definitely...

CBS is blocked in my area (vegas) on Directv stream - I used one of those credit card offers you opt into on the account page (in my case it was an Amex) to get 3 months of paramount+ for free, which includes live CBS. The deal was $11 off for three consecutive months for any $11+ bill, which...

Before I recently retired, I had literally dozens of negative interactions with patients when I asked them if they had been vaccinated. Some extremely contentious. And this was immediately when I asked the question, in people presenting with covid symptoms to the ER (because I didn't ask...

You are comparing articles/opinions from present day and April 2020. Is that reasonable except to try to try to make your thinly veiled political forum point that NPR = bad? Numerous prior viral outbreaks were zoonotic, including prior coronavirus outbreaks. It would be scientifically...

Thank you very much. I was only picturing the "typical" scenario where person dies, will in place, everything is liquidated all at once per the will. I am the executor in this scenario now, there has been delays mostly because the court is still backed up from covid to have the hearings, but...

Yes, I made a mistake there, meant no tax from an inherited roth IRA. Another advantageous wrinkle is that you have 10 years to liquidate an inherited IRA, so you can control when you pay the taxes. Have to make RMDs if the person you inherited from was required. I still have no idea under...

Let's say you are in a no tax state, just looking at federal taxes: I don't see how proceeds on a primary residence (below the 250/500K caps), checking and savings accounts, traditional IRA contributions, or post-tax brokerage accounts that are transferred in-kind with stepped up capital gains...

I am ignorant on this tax discussion - unless you hit some crazy estate tax, why is either trust or will proceeds taxed? I am inheriting four different accounts, proceeds from a house, etc. Not a ton of money - 300K or so - but not a penny of tax. What am I missing in this discussion?

"transfer on death" I am in the process of being an executor for my dad, I am an insanely organized person with financial stuff, expedited everything in every possible way, was able to access the account numbers and amounts because I had his computer and passwords, and it still took 6 months...

The Brazilian "study" in question was observational only, wasn't randomized, the "data" is from mid-2020, there was only 283 cases among the people taking ivermectin, it wasn't dose controlled, and uses post-hoc analysis to come to a conclusion. The "study" design is a classic example of...

It can be drained, but that is a risk/benefit discussion to be had with an ENT who examines you first. Tincture of time is what I would want. It works great for a lot of non-emergency medical diagnoses :)

must your vaccine idiocy extend to every thread? Read a book.

this is just a serous otitis media, I have seen this dozens of times in the ER. No big deal, just annoying. Can take months to clear up. copied explanation because I am lazy: Serous otitis media (SOM) is when liquid or mucus in the middle ear blocks the eustachian tube, a channel that...