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I need to Have my wisdom teeth removed so I went to the Doctor my Dentis referred me to. For the cosoltation I was told they where out of carrier with my Insurance (both state BCBs and Dental Plus) but that I would get a 25% discount on the consltation because of it. Then at the end they gave me a $2200 estimate and said they would contact my insurer and find out how much they are willing/able to cover. A) Why would they not cover my consolation but would cover my surgery? B) How much (%) should I expect to have to pay if they accept both BCBS and Dental Plus? I have to pay up front for this and will. Hangs to a different Doctor if the insurance won't cover it and I only get 25% off (if they even do that for surgery) C) Is there a better place to ask this? I don't expect exact numbers, more ballparks but I don't know where to ask this type of question and I'm getting nervous. If it is not clear state health insurance is Blue Cross Blue Shield for me.
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RaoulDuke12 posted:That sounds kind of insane. Technically you aren't allowed to "inhabit" in a storage unit since it doesn't have plumbing, but people do anyway, and if you'd only be there for 45 minutes or so, I really seriously doubt they would do anything. I live in the desert, and believe me I've tried but the car turns into an oven. Install Gentoo posted:Well I don't think people would care, and it's not illegal, but it seems rather wasteful. Just sort of thinking out loud. If I can get good a deal, I suppose I could also store things in there so at least I would be serving its original purpose as well.
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Mar 29, 2012 05:09
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CatchrNdRy posted:I live in the desert, and believe me I've tried but the car turns into an oven. For obvious reasons, I hope you're intending one of those storage facilities in a building, rather than rows of garage-like spaces outside.
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Mar 29, 2012 05:11
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I just bought a jar of pimento-stuffed olives, because I lurve me some pimento-stuffed olives. What's that liquid that they come in? Is it just saltwater?
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Mar 29, 2012 05:16
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Gravity Pike posted:I just bought a jar of pimento-stuffed olives, because I lurve me some pimento-stuffed olives. What's that liquid that they come in? Is it just saltwater? Yeah, probably some kind of brine with maybe vinegar or some other pickle-y preservative mix.
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Mar 29, 2012 05:25
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Install Gentoo posted:For obvious reasons, I hope you're intending one of those storage facilities in a building, rather than rows of garage-like spaces outside. Yeah I was looking at the climate controlled ones. I was inspired by seeing a few links of storage units turned into man-caves, but I just want a nap cave.
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Mar 29, 2012 05:29
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Rashomon posted:Hmmm, I guess I had no idea that it was so stupid -- trying to sell a laptop computer on eBay seems like a totally logical and reasonable thing to try to do. I'll stick with craigslist I suppose. Something I learned recently, if you are willing to knock say a 100 bucks off the average price of a high end item on Craigslist even if you live a far distance from a big city people will come to you anyway with cash for it. I sold a washer and dryer to a guy who lived 2 hours away because I knocked 200 hundred bucks off the price. Did that with A snow blower as well.
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Mar 29, 2012 06:01
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Ridonkulous posted:C) Is there a better place to ask this? I don't expect exact numbers, more ballparks but I don't know where to ask this type of question and I'm getting nervous. I would ask in The Goon Doctor under Watch and Weight. I would also try to find an in-network doctor to actually do the procedure since it will probably be a hell of a lot cheaper for you.
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Mar 29, 2012 07:12
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E4C85D38 posted:I dug up an external USB drive, USB A to Mini A, and the only other hole on it is a DC barrel connector. The drive seems to work fine just leeching off of USB power, so what's the other power connector for? Not all USB ports have the power to drive a HDD as they are relatively power hungry. e.g. some computers don't have enough power to drive a HDD plugged into every port simultaneously. An unpowered hub will not be able to spin it up. Some standalone devices (media players) might not have enough power.
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Mar 29, 2012 10:17
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spog posted:Not all USB ports have the power to drive a HDD as they are relatively power hungry. To add to this, I once had a drive that was the same way; I attempted to use it on an old laptop and it specifically told me when I plugged it in that the USB port would not provide enough power to make the drive function.
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Mar 29, 2012 14:43
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I have a mole on my back that has been described to me by a small child as 'like a piece of bubblegum.' It is not cancer or anything... I am not really a vain person, but its pretty oddly shaped, and like I said, scares small children at public pools soooo.... Is there any home remedy for giant moles that actually works, the internet is full of stuff that seems like scams and 'natural creams' or whatever that I don't really trust, or should I just save up thousands of dollars to go to a real doctor or whatever.
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Mar 29, 2012 16:20
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FishBulb posted:I have a mole on my back that has been described to me by a small child as 'like a piece of bubblegum.' It is not cancer or anything... I am not really a vain person, but its pretty oddly shaped, and like I said, scares small children at public pools soooo.... Have you had a doctor actually look at it? A big irregular mole is usually a good indicator of skin cancer.
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Mar 29, 2012 16:45
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FishBulb posted:I have a mole on my back that has been described to me by a small child as 'like a piece of bubblegum.' It is not cancer or anything... I am not really a vain person, but its pretty oddly shaped, and like I said, scares small children at public pools soooo.... I don't think there's any home remedies that would work. You could get a friend to slice it off, with your back and the blade suitably disinfected first, and plenty of gauze and bandages and antibacterial cream on hand, of course. It would hurt, of course, but it's basically the same as what a doctor would do, except a doctor would have local anesthetic.
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Mar 29, 2012 16:45
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Kritzkrieg Kop posted:Have you had a doctor actually look at it? A big irregular mole is usually a good indicator of skin cancer. Yeah I had my primary care and a specialist look at it, its not cancer. My mom has a long history of skin cancer and, I don't remember the exact details of how she saw it but she freaked out about it incredibly and scared me into talking to the doctor about it. Install Gentoo posted:I don't think there's any home remedies that would work. You could get a friend to slice it off, with your back and the blade suitably disinfected first, and plenty of gauze and bandages and antibacterial cream on hand, of course. It would hurt, of course, but it's basically the same as what a doctor would do, except a doctor would have local anesthetic. Uh, I'd rather scare small children with my bubblegum back thanks. If none of the creams or lotions work I guess Ill just find out how much a real doctor charges.
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Mar 29, 2012 16:51
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I've had a few removed by my general practitioner, and he just billed it to insurance as necessary for biopsies, even though he was positive they weren't cancerous. It was super quick and easy and I had a very easy recovery.
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Mar 29, 2012 19:38
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When people use laptop sleeves what do they carry their charger in? Serious question. I'm thinking about ditching my heavy bag in lieu of carrying a sleeve containing my laptop and a few manila folders into the office everyday. I'm worried I'll often drop or forget my charger if I have to carry it in my other hand or something.
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Mar 29, 2012 21:05
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Mine has a thin zippered pouch on the outside that holds my AC adapter, a small mouse and has room for other small accessories. It's just plain black neoprene HP sleeve I got at walmart a few years ago.
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Mar 29, 2012 21:09
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Fire In The Disco posted:I've had a few removed by my general practitioner, and he just billed it to insurance as necessary for biopsies, even though he was positive they weren't cancerous. It was super quick and easy and I had a very easy recovery. Oh alright. Once I get back home and back to my regular doc I'll see if I can pull that off. That sounds like the best option. Thanks.
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Mar 29, 2012 23:43
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They even use lasers now so it's not all bloody and gross. BTW, if it's actually a skin tag and not a mole you can either strangle it at the base with a surgeon's knot in some dental floss or get some tea tree oil and coat it with that for a few weeks, supposedly both work. Moles generally have been on your body since childhood, so if it's a relatively new growth it's more than likely either a skin tag or cancer.
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Mar 30, 2012 01:21
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So after upgrading Internet Explorer I noticed that certain images posted on the forums have a red border and are now non-clickable. This is frustating because they link to the original higher resolution but the link part is not functioning. I do notice that the rare image here or there will have a green outline and will work as normal. So what IE options do I need to adjust to make all linked images clickable again?
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Mar 30, 2012 02:41
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Ridonkulous posted:I need to Have my wisdom teeth removed so I went to the Doctor my Dentis referred me to. Why don't you find an oral surgeon that is "in network/carrier"? If you call your provider they can help you navigate the nuances even though they are not your best friend. Dental billing departments/referrals are lazy as gently caress in my experience. They basically just do what they want with disregard to what your cash outlay may be.
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Mar 30, 2012 06:07
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I have questions: Do magnets last forever? Do they emit magnetism like radiation or is it a permanent thing? Same with smell and radiation (I doubt these have ever been linked together before..) Is every particle emitted a piece of the original whole? I guess it just feels weird thinking that they can emit so much for so long. How come you can get sun burnt and feel the heat of the sun more on a hot sunny day in winter, but can be fine on an overcast day in summer? Surely you're closer to the sun in summer? Is it something to do with wind and pressure? Sadly I'm not 12.
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Mar 30, 2012 11:36
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concerned mom posted:I have questions: If a magnet is kept properly it should last indefinitely. Smells will last as long as what is causing them is around, eg a decaying skunk. Radioactive materials have a half life, it varies by material but they eventually do lose their radioactivity. It's UV rays that do most of the damage, less UV less sunburn. Clouds can block some UV rays.
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Mar 30, 2012 12:40
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There's a website https://www.book-buzzes.com that sends you an email whenever an author that you have specified releases a new book. Is there a similar thing for music that will email you when some artist that you've specified releases a new album?
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Mar 30, 2012 12:47
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Florida Betty posted:There's a website https://www.book-buzzes.com that sends you an email whenever an author that you have specified releases a new book. Is there a similar thing for music that will email you when some artist that you've specified releases a new album? I'm almost 100% positive iTunes has a subscribe to updates for artists feature. Or just follow them on Facebook or Twitter.
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Mar 30, 2012 12:54
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RaoulDuke12 posted:Moles generally have been on your body since childhood, so if it's a relatively new growth it's more than likely either a skin tag or cancer. This is incredibly misleading and somewhat alarmist. A new mole growth does not "more than likely" mean that it is cancer. If you notice a new growth, check it for unusual size, color variation, shape, or border. Keep an eye on existing moles for changes from normal mole to unusual properties as well as these are signs of possible melanoma. You can never be too safe, so if you're worried get yourself checked, but also keep in mind that most moles are not cancerous. Its incorrect to tell people that you "more than likely" have cancer just because you have a new mole on your body.
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Mar 30, 2012 13:43
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concerned mom posted:Do magnets last forever? Do they emit magnetism like radiation or is it a permanent thing? Yes, permanent magnets do, that's why they're called permanent magnets. Not all magnets are permanent, though- some can be deliberately demagnetized in various ways, and electromagnets only work so long as current is flowing. quote:Same with smell and radiation (I doubt these have ever been linked together before..) Is every particle emitted a piece of the original whole? I guess it just feels weird thinking that they can emit so much for so long. Emitting smells and radiation both consume minuscule amounts of the original material, so in theory they will eventually use up the substance and stop. Usually when an object dries out and doesn't have any water to carry its particles away any more it will smell much less strongly. For radioactivity, look up "half-life" on Wikipedia for far more information than any one poster can give you. quote:How come you can get sun burnt and feel the heat of the sun more on a hot sunny day in winter, but can be fine on an overcast day in summer? Surely you're closer to the sun in summer? Is it something to do with wind and pressure? You're not closer to the sun in the summer, it's that it's higher overhead so it's delivering more heat to the planet. Sunburns are caused by UV rays that can be blocked by clouds regardless of whether it's summer or winter. haveblue fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Mar 30, 2012 |
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Mar 30, 2012 14:08
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concerned mom posted:How come you can get sun burnt and feel the heat of the sun more on a hot sunny day in winter, but can be fine on an overcast day in summer? Surely you're closer to the sun in summer? Is it something to do with wind and pressure? During the northern hemisphere summer, the Earth is actually further away from the sun than it is during the northern winter. What causes more warmth is that it's hitting the northern hemisphere more directly, due to the tilt of the earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seasons.svg illustrates this.
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Actually even permanent magnets can be demagnetized. One way is through heating it up past it's Curie point (which is just the temperature where it loses magnetism) and another is through physical trauma, like hitting it with a hammer. Also on radiation, the halflife is the time it takes for half of a radioactive thing to decay into another element. So if you have 2 lbs of a radioactive material and the halflife is 1 year, in a year you'll have one pound of the original material and one pound of what it decays to, in two years half a pound and 1.5, and so on. Some half-lifes are only fractions of a second while others are millions of years (or more!) The dangerous things are the ones with shorter halflifes since more radiation is emitted in a short period of time.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Actually even permanent magnets can be demagnetized. One way is through heating it up past it's Curie point (which is just the temperature where it loses magnetism) and another is through physical trauma, like hitting it with a hammer. Why would whacking something cause it to lose magnetism? (Note: I have zero science/physics background, so forgive my ignorance if this is some basic Known Thing)
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Fair point, but I thought he was talking about natural decay of magnetism, which as far as I know does not happen the way it does with radioactivity.
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Is there a non gender specific word for 'aunts and uncles'? Sort of like 'siblings' for 'brothers and sisters' or 'grandparents' for 'grandmothers and grandfathers'. Similarly, does English have gender specific words for males and female cousins?
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Yeah, I was just giving him a little more information. As for why hitting a magnet it's a less precise way to do it than heating it but if you hammer a magnet enough (and if it doesn't break) it will lose its magnetism. The reason a magnet works in the first place is that the dipoles that make up the material are all pointing the same way. When you hit or drop a magnet a lot you can cause them to no longer face the same way, which will cause the magnet to become weaker/not work. edit: miryei posted:Is there a non gender specific word for 'aunts and uncles'? No, unless you want to use the clunky "Parent's siblings." And there is no specific word for boy or girl cousins either. Cousin is really just (or at least started as) a word for someone related to you that isn't in your immediate family, like saying someone is "kin." Fork of Unknown Origins fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Mar 30, 2012 |
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Travakian posted:Why would whacking something cause it to lose magnetism? (Note: I have zero science/physics background, so forgive my ignorance if this is some basic Known Thing)  See how the domains are aligned in one direction per grain when magnetized? Hitting it with a hammer will send the grains in all direction up, thereby de-magnetizing. People were mocking ICP for the whole magnets things, but actually most people don't know how magnets actually work, they just know how to use them.
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Jeffrey Colon posted:This is incredibly misleading and somewhat alarmist. A new mole growth does not "more than likely" mean that it is cancer. If you notice a new growth, check it for unusual size, color variation, shape, or border. Keep an eye on existing moles for changes from normal mole to unusual properties as well as these are signs of possible melanoma. To be clear, I didn't mean to imply it was most likely cancer, although the way I wrote it does imply exactly that. That wasn't my intention. However, most moles on your body appear within the first two decades in your life; if one appears later on it should very much be checked on. Especially based on his description, normal moles are not shaped "like a piece of bubblegum". I don't know how old he is obviously; if he's 16 it's likley less of a problem, but to say that "most moles are not cancerous" is incorrect without a congenital qualifier; new mole growths should be looked at and monitored.
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I said I already went to two doctors about it and they both said it clearly wasn't cancer though, I mean maybe they were both wrong I guess and I totally am going to die from mole cancer 
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Mar 31, 2012 02:40
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FishBulb posted:I said I already went to two doctors about it and they both said it clearly wasn't cancer though, I mean maybe they were both wrong I guess and I totally am going to die from mole cancer There's some 'three c's saying about moles, (color, clarity and cut!) which basically tells you that they're fine if they have hair growing from them, are not changing shape, color and size. I have had a non cancer mole for years and I'm not dead and dermatologists have said it's ok.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:No, unless you want to use the clunky "Parent's siblings." And there is no specific word for boy or girl cousins either. Cousin is really just (or at least started as) a word for someone related to you that isn't in your immediate family, like saying someone is "kin." Thanks. Didn't think there was, but that's interesting about 'cousins' not always having meant a specific relationship. redreader posted:There's some 'three c's saying about moles, (color, clarity and cut!) which basically tells you that they're fine if they have hair growing from them, are not changing shape, color and size. I have had a non cancer mole for years and I'm not dead and dermatologists have said it's ok. Are existing moles more likely to become cancerous than non-mole skin? Curious because I've got a bunch of pencil-eraser-sized ones, and I've always heard that pencil-eraser-sized is about how big they can be before you're supposed to start worrying, but I rather like them. What happens if I get a mole pierced? I see a lot of resources saying it's bad but I'm not finding anything saying why. I also found something saying that it's okay to pierce birthmarks but not moles--what's the difference?
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miryei posted:Thanks. Didn't think there was, but that's interesting about 'cousins' not always having meant a specific relationship. Birthmarks are just discolored skin. Like freckles. A mole is a growth.
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Sorry if this is gross, but is there a way to get pitstains out of clothing? I'm sick of having great shirts ruined because my deodorant doesn't prevent pitstains like it says.
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