I agree that this was a bit flippant (though accurate), but if you took the time to look through my posting history over the last nearly five years, you'd learn why I made this account in the first place:…
Going all in on the "unintelligible black box" model of health insurance, I see.
Since I can't respond to my own child comment as it was flagged, I'll just note that when I made it, this comment said only: The rest of us have to compete in a free market for our skills. Why not doctors? And the rest…
What an utterly contentless response (and no, you're not in a free market). Based on your other comments on this post, I would recommend you spend some time learning about the system you're attempting to criticize.
Healthcare is much closer to auto repair than software development. Sure, on a car that's running that you can't turn off, with parts you can't replace, a maintenance history you can't see, and an ECU that actively…
This is manifestly not the case, and there are a large number of studies showing why this is true (many linked elsewhere in this thread). Most people do not have a good understanding of the risks associated with ongoing…
you are basically accusing them of foolish behavior at best, fraud/unethical behavior at worst Given the conflict of interest in this article, I'd say that's the least of what the authors should be accused of.
I'm sure he's proud to have his name on the only major trauma center in the US without a helipad due to NIMBY pressure.
The way many metabolic conditions work is that essential products are not synthesized, or toxic products are not cleared. These can cause unrecoverable damage within hours or days of birth if not treated. So, tests are…
This is a reasonable statement to want to make, but (with a vanishingly small number of exceptions), suicide is not a choice. It's the result of depression combined with loss of inhibition (due to stress, chemical…
A favorite of mine from medical school... "two drinks a day!" Oh yeah? What do you usually drink? "A box of wine and a handle of whiskey."
Residents barely have time to eat (we called it "low food security"), let alone consider their mental health. I've actually heard it vocalized as a strategy for hospital administration -- keep the residents absurdly…
Re imaging, throw away the community hospital crap that IBM's been peddling. We need quality imaging, with diagnostics, with followup data, from major quaternary care research centers.
Run some numbers on outcome-based repayment -- nighthawking no longer makes sense for the hospitals.
No, it would not work. Neither fMRI or "bulk EEG data" (whatever that is) reproduces brain activity patterns for even the most basic ideation, I have no idea why you would think they do. This is fantasy.
That is an extreme and unfortunate example (and there is an entire additional set of issues around bedside manner and how our current training and practice environments select against it). However, establishment…
There's definitely not enough information in the article to draw that conclusion. Moreover, the description is entirely compatible with a disassociative episode. You have some pretty clear biases you're projecting onto…
I'm on my way out, so this'll be quick, but a few other restrictions on supply: * There can notionally only be as many fill-able residencies as there are graduating medical students -- this number would probably be the…
And I can tell you that quality of care poor get is the same as rich ones get. That's because you're an anesthesiologist, and you see the acute cases which have already been admitted to the hospital. Poor people don't…
I would highly recommend that anyone who finds this interesting read the book by Rokeach (there's a good, cheap edition from NYRB that I buy a lot of people as a gift) -- goes into far more detail, particularly with…
This is a poorly considered view of experimental treatments. Particularly in the case of aid work, experimentation on the patient population is not only unethical in every formalizable sense, it is quite likely to…
I do partially agree with you, but it's at least worth noting that people in the medical field are much more likely to have the capacity to genuinely consent to the receipt of experimental drugs (in the sense of…
It's at least worth noting that it's only within the last decade that such an approach has become viable -- we're still entirely unable to establish any relationship between genetics and psychiatric illness via theory,…
“Many hospitals are unaware of the high risk associated with these devices,” I assure you that while this is the hospital's official stance, many people within the hospital are well aware of the shoddy software on their…
Back in the day (I haven't been in a while, unfortunately, so I don't know the current status), at nicer theatres and at the opera, they had a service available for emergency personnel (doctors, et cetera) where they'd…
I agree that this was a bit flippant (though accurate), but if you took the time to look through my posting history over the last nearly five years, you'd learn why I made this account in the first place:…
Going all in on the "unintelligible black box" model of health insurance, I see.
Since I can't respond to my own child comment as it was flagged, I'll just note that when I made it, this comment said only: The rest of us have to compete in a free market for our skills. Why not doctors? And the rest…
What an utterly contentless response (and no, you're not in a free market). Based on your other comments on this post, I would recommend you spend some time learning about the system you're attempting to criticize.
Healthcare is much closer to auto repair than software development. Sure, on a car that's running that you can't turn off, with parts you can't replace, a maintenance history you can't see, and an ECU that actively…
This is manifestly not the case, and there are a large number of studies showing why this is true (many linked elsewhere in this thread). Most people do not have a good understanding of the risks associated with ongoing…
you are basically accusing them of foolish behavior at best, fraud/unethical behavior at worst Given the conflict of interest in this article, I'd say that's the least of what the authors should be accused of.
I'm sure he's proud to have his name on the only major trauma center in the US without a helipad due to NIMBY pressure.
The way many metabolic conditions work is that essential products are not synthesized, or toxic products are not cleared. These can cause unrecoverable damage within hours or days of birth if not treated. So, tests are…
This is a reasonable statement to want to make, but (with a vanishingly small number of exceptions), suicide is not a choice. It's the result of depression combined with loss of inhibition (due to stress, chemical…
A favorite of mine from medical school... "two drinks a day!" Oh yeah? What do you usually drink? "A box of wine and a handle of whiskey."
Residents barely have time to eat (we called it "low food security"), let alone consider their mental health. I've actually heard it vocalized as a strategy for hospital administration -- keep the residents absurdly…
Re imaging, throw away the community hospital crap that IBM's been peddling. We need quality imaging, with diagnostics, with followup data, from major quaternary care research centers.
Run some numbers on outcome-based repayment -- nighthawking no longer makes sense for the hospitals.
No, it would not work. Neither fMRI or "bulk EEG data" (whatever that is) reproduces brain activity patterns for even the most basic ideation, I have no idea why you would think they do. This is fantasy.
That is an extreme and unfortunate example (and there is an entire additional set of issues around bedside manner and how our current training and practice environments select against it). However, establishment…
There's definitely not enough information in the article to draw that conclusion. Moreover, the description is entirely compatible with a disassociative episode. You have some pretty clear biases you're projecting onto…
I'm on my way out, so this'll be quick, but a few other restrictions on supply: * There can notionally only be as many fill-able residencies as there are graduating medical students -- this number would probably be the…
And I can tell you that quality of care poor get is the same as rich ones get. That's because you're an anesthesiologist, and you see the acute cases which have already been admitted to the hospital. Poor people don't…
I would highly recommend that anyone who finds this interesting read the book by Rokeach (there's a good, cheap edition from NYRB that I buy a lot of people as a gift) -- goes into far more detail, particularly with…
This is a poorly considered view of experimental treatments. Particularly in the case of aid work, experimentation on the patient population is not only unethical in every formalizable sense, it is quite likely to…
I do partially agree with you, but it's at least worth noting that people in the medical field are much more likely to have the capacity to genuinely consent to the receipt of experimental drugs (in the sense of…
It's at least worth noting that it's only within the last decade that such an approach has become viable -- we're still entirely unable to establish any relationship between genetics and psychiatric illness via theory,…
“Many hospitals are unaware of the high risk associated with these devices,” I assure you that while this is the hospital's official stance, many people within the hospital are well aware of the shoddy software on their…
Back in the day (I haven't been in a while, unfortunately, so I don't know the current status), at nicer theatres and at the opera, they had a service available for emergency personnel (doctors, et cetera) where they'd…