I mean yes, I'm not contesting that. But laying responsibility for that at the feet of doctors is not going to fix the problem when corporations are the problem
Doctors in most practice settings have very little control over the quality of care these days, believe it or not. Several factors converged. One was an unintended side effect of anti-kickback and anti-fraud laws like the Stark Law preventing ownership of healthcare facilities by the physicians who practice there to prevent the temptation to provide superfluous and unnecessary tests for the sake of extra billing money.
This opened to door to corporate ownership, and doctors gave up too much of their autonomy and control, becoming "mere" corporate employees like the rest of us. The corporations deliberately understaff and just push more and more and more patients onto doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, everyone all across the board are being expected to take on more and more. Which of course degrades the quality of care.
It's the corporations keeping the excess profit generated, not the physicians. Physicians have finally started seeing what's going on and unionizing (at least up here in Massachusetts - University of Massachusetts and Mass General Brigham are both major hospital systems where resident doctors have unionized.) And it's the resident ("junior") doctors who are currently on strike in the UK.
Honestly, we need to get hospital ownership out of corporate hands and back into the hands of the providers who are motivated to take care of patients. We need to figure out better mechanisms for regulating fraud
Fully admits to being a literal child at the time. Still talking like they have something to contribute about the situation they fully admit to knowing nothing about. Gets snarky with the people who were actually impacted by it.
Fucking why do people like you feel the compulsive need to open their mouths about every god damned thing? Maybe your opinion, I dunno, isn't relevant.
I would like to introduce you to a different possibility. It's called keeping your mouth shut and listening. Crazy idea, I know, but it's often followed by this thing called learning.
Well there are two of us right here in the comment section. I had a great job at a startup online retailer. They had a good business model, it was a great place to work.
We had been beating our sales projections and were only a couple months away from being profitable when the Sept 11 attacks happened. Within two weeks, our VC funding stopped and we were all out of jobs because the company owners had to choose between paying rent and paying us. They chose to pay us all severance, bless them for that.
Thankfully I was young, didn't own a house, didn't have kids. But a lot of my colleagues did.
Your work (and mine) could be done in almost the exact same manner by anyone with the same education and training. The work of artists is very specific to the individual. Not that no one else could do it, but if someone else did it, it would be a different product.
Understaffing, penny-pinching, forcing medical professionals to take on more and more work with no help, to say nothing of increased pay. These working conditions hurt patients chronically.
That's why doctors and nurses strike. Especially THESE doctors - the new ones who just graduated from medical school. They're the single most exploited group of people working in healthcare when you account for how little they are paid in comparison to how much they're expected to work and how much revenue they generate.
In the US we call them resident doctors. In the UK junior doctors. I absolutely support their strike
Hunga Tunga Hunga Ha'apai didn't help either. Instead of just the usual global cooling sulfur dioxide, this particular volcano was under water enough that it launched massive amounts of water vapor into the atmosphere, which has greenhouse effects. Add that all together on top of the chronic climate change and you get this summer.
Literally my life for six hours yesterday. Finally got the guy through the generic scripted responses so he could escalate to someone who could actually fix the problem...
Thank you for talking some damn sense. When everybody got all up in arms about the specific PFOA that was found in the open air water treatment facility in Little Hocking, Ohio from the DuPont Washington Works Teflon factory, the only thing that got changed was DuPont paid to convert the water treatment facility to a closed air one and they replaced C8 with C6, which is arguably a worse chemical about which less is known.
We can't regulate out these kinds of chemicals one by one. It's the same problem they were having trying to regulate synthetic cathinones ("bath salts") - you ban one specific chemical and people just change the formula slightly to come up with a new technically legal version again.
We need to regulate the manufactured products that require these chemicals as part of the process.
"Robert Carlyle Byrd served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A Democrat, Byrd also served as a U.S. representative for six years, from 1953 until 1959. He remains the longest-serving U.S. Senator in history"
Regular everyday federal investigations that involve commonly prosecuted crimes with defendants who aren't political land mines can take up to five years. For an investigation into a former president and possible current presidential candidate who is charged with crimes that have almost zero legal precedent to be moving to trial in three years is astoundingly fast.
"A Federal investigation can last upwards of 5 years due to most Federal Statute of Limitations prohibiting the Government from charging or indicting someone after that time period. It is not unusual to see an indictment that lists dates of offenses 3-5 years prior to an arrest."
Well, we're not. There's a reason you don't see New York City jumping to adopt this tech, and it's because they bothered to invest in a public transit system that makes cars obsolete for a lot of people. If we got decent public transit in more cities combined with an actually functional high speed rail system in this country, you'd see cars become obsolete for a whole lot more people.
This "lifestyle/culture" developed out of sheer necessity given the geographic size of this country and the complete failure to invest in mass transit. It can and must be changed, if we want our future to be viable at all.
"The Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on these questions has not followed a straight line. At times, the Court has stated that the Tenth Amendment lacks substantive constitutional content and does not operate as a limitation upon the powers, express or implied, delegated to the national government. At other times, the Court has found affirmative federalism limitations in the Amendment, invalidating federal statutes not because Congress lacked legislative authority over the subject matter, but because those statutes violated the principles of federalism contained in the Tenth Amendment"
Boston has an emergency mental health response team, but currently they're only accessed via a different telephone number and don't link in with 911. They're considering joint responses from 911 and the B.E.S.T. team
Lol, no. It was alllllllllll fake the entire time. It's just that once the IPO had happened and the founder ran off with his billions, they really had to try to make this completely unworkable business model work
"In retrospect, Neumann’s knack for amassing billions of dollars in venture capital with no viable business model was one of the greatest scams of the twenty-first century."
So accurate