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I think doctors know as much if not more than anyone how broken the system is and how it constantly fails people, disagreements more about what to do about it and fears about change.

And there's certainly some physicians organizing in support of single payer.

Physicians for a National Health Program

A lot of doctors are concerned about how much say or influence they would have in such a health system, but hey not like they have much as it is as everything has become giant conglomerates run by MBAs and private equity, so not much to lose. At least government is theoretically beholden to the people.

Some prisons do employ doctors. But they're generally just treating prisoners, not helping with this kind of thing.

However it has been revealed at times that there's been at least a handful of physicians who have helped with lethal injections. To be clear, every code of ethics, medical board, and every professional physician organization roundly condemns any participation in these. Some states like Georgia have specifically made laws preventing medical boards in their state from disciplining physicians who do so if it's found out (as any medical board likely would try to do).

Often it is passed to people with no medial experience as you said, but there have been at least a handful of healthcare workers who have participated in them at times. How widespread it is isn't super clear, as anyone involved for the most part has tried to keep it secret, and the prison system has no desire to reveal this either.

And I think it's incredibly damaging to society and trust with health care workers as a whole to have these death penalty states trying to involve health care workers in this, even if only a tiny handful have actually done so. If they're really intent on continuing this barbaric practice just make it a firing squad, leave medical workers out of it. I'd personally favor just getting rid of the death penalty altogether. Not worth it for so many reasons.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/lethal-injection-and-physicians-state-law-vs-medical-ethics

At least all the banks now have real valuations on his properties out in the public record now thanks to court and the court appointed monitors.

Oral arguments this April would generally imply they release their ruling in or by June though before going to recess. Might still be time to get the trial done if they follow their typical schedule.

Yes there is a hole here. Johnson is no longer speaker of the house on January 3rd. The swearing in of members happens after a new speaker is selected (presumably a Democrat if Democrats took control). This is why for the most recent congress no one was sworn in until January 7th, after Mccarthy was finally elected as speaker after many rounds of voting.

That being said facists are gonna facist. Could Republican state governors/secretaries of states pull some shenanigans to prevent certifications of Democrat representatives or the electoral votes from their states? If Republicans retain control of the house they could absolutely do something like the article describes as well. If they have control of the house and senate they can basically make the electoral count certification procedures anything they want, refuse to seat members, lots of stuff.

While most MD's/DO's aren't researchers, they are very well represented among the clinical scientists who develop guidelines and methods. Guidelines can't be applied in all cases, so understanding the underpinnings of the disease is still important. Most have also done research at some level at some point in their training, and interpretation of clinical research is a core part of medical education. And they get an extensive basic science curriculum in addition to studying clinical science.

The issue he's commenting on here though is the very basic central dogma of molecular biology, he would have learned this in undergrad and would have been tested on it medical school entrance exams before even getting accepted for more training. And of course a doctor needs a working understanding of genetics, there is genetic disease in every area of medicine. Florida's surgeon general is just being deliberately misleading.

Went to medical school, yet somehow doesn't know the difference between RNA or DNA, or how transcription works. This isn't crispr here, your body is bombarded with nucleic acids all the time.

Unfortunately the trillion dollar coin thing may only alleviate a debt ceiling fight, spending money to fund things congress has already put in the budget. The debt ceiling has been suspended until 2025 (though many legal scholars hold the debt ceiling is unconstitutional, how can congress allocate money for something but also prevent debt being created to pay for it at the same time? Which directive should be followed?). This is passing the budget and allocating money, something congress is given the express authority over in the constitution.

So if they go past Friday there's a government shutdown. Not good, but not quite the global economic catastrophe of the US defaulting on debt if the debt ceiling was allowed to be hit. The US still is paying off all bonds, etc while a government shutdown occurs.

Also the headline makes the quote sound more certain than his actual statement was, which probably isn't helping.

‘I hope by the end of the weekend. My national security advisor tells me that we’re close, we’re close, we’re not done yet. My hope is by next Monday we’ll have a ceasefire'

The FTC price increases in foods due to monopolizing is absolutely having a hand in helping to reduce hunger.

Another thing I can think of off the top of my head the Biden admin and democrats are doing is fighting to increase funding for SNAP and resisting republican efforts to impose more restrictions on the program and make it harder to use.

Also the 8 billion isn't already spent and nothing happened, it's in the process of being spent and this is more being put on top.

While these are all fine and good, personally I still think a universal basic income would be the best way at reducing hunger. A totally unrestricted program like that though be very hard to push, despite all the evidence of their effectiveness, when there's fighting over whether or not SNAP should be taking a fine toothed comb to exactly what foods people are or not allowed to buy with it.

I am not spreading misinformation and did not imply that Utah had the worst youth homeless rate in general among all states, we're talking specifically about lgbt youth homelessness, and the greatly increased dangers of being kicked out of your home and many other types of abuse that LGBT youth face. This is a major problem across the entire country, including Utah. So I think in any state there should be a lot of thought put into whether schools should just start disclosing information like gender or sexual identities to students families, without assessing if that might be putting the student into danger.

Unfortunately Utah refuses to formally gather information on things like gender identity and sexual orientation in its youth homeless population, data that is gathered in many other states, so Utah has deliberately made a direct comparison between states not possible on this issue. You would also need to factor in that many homeless individuals relocate to areas with increased services to help. You would also need to consider if youth feel safe even disclosing this information to a state agency run by a very conservative lgbt hostile state government. If Utah wants to prove it's better on this issue and that the anecdotal evidence and evidence gathered directly at homeless shelters is wrong, than they can start gathering the data themselves, they've had plenty of chances to do so. I'm gonna assume the worst when they refuse to look. Go to any of the lgbt youth homeless centers in Salt Lake City before belittling this problem, and spreading awareness about it is not misinformation.

http://www.nomorestrangers.org/homeless-youth-in-utah/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lgbt-morman-youth_b_1597617

https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/2/03/suicides-or-not-lds-harming-lgbt-youth#toggle-gdpr

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-plight-of-homeless-yo_b_10205650

Hitler wasn't directly elected. Hindenburg won the election vs Hitler for president in 1932, then later Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor after nazis became the largest party in the Reichstag. Hitler got to work using nazis and other right wing parties in parliament to pass laws to give more powers to himself (using excuses like the Reichstag fire), and then later usurped presidential powers as well after Hindenburg's death.

But your point still stands, democracies have failed before and America isn't immune to that. It could happen in America too. And some of Trump's plans in 2020 and his plans for 2024 are very similar to the nazi playbook. They kind of tried to pull a Reichstag fire on January 6th by blaming antifa or the deep state or whatever crazy conspiracy theory they cooked up to try and distract from their failed coup.

Good chance they'll be kicked out of their home or worse. There's an epidemic of lgbt youth homelessness nationwide, and it's even worse in Utah for obvious reasons. Schools should not be carte blanche informing parents without permission from the student, it's a safety issue. Reading their full guidance for teachers in another comment above it's making some very reasonable suggestions to help ensure student safety.

https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2012-06-11/utah-one-of-the-worst-places-to-be-lgbt-and-homeless

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/research-briefs/homelessness-and-housing-instability-among-lgbtq-youth-feb-2022/

Technically they went to trial for Trump's impeachment in the senate both times. The first "trial" didn't call any witnesses or subpoena any testimony and was very brief. The second impeachment had more of an actual trial since democrats just barely controlled the senate for that one, though unfortunately still failed with 57 on favor (needs 66), though did get 7 republicans to vote to bar him from office.

Commenter above you is referring to just dismissing outright, which would be faster than what the senate did for Trump, even the first time. I agree that's what the senate should do though, just dismiss outright, this impeachment was a joke political stunt and they didn't even allege anything to discuss.

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And this one wasn't even a country per se, but a company. Though NASA has some experiments they out on the craft.

I'm in agreement with you there, it shouldn't be something to obfuscate the meaning. It should be about being more precise with your meaning if anything, about being more aware of what your word or phrasing choice may imply. But there's always going to have to be change or people will end up saying things they didn't mean if they refuse to acknowledge a word has changed over time or if different words may carry different meanings for different people.

I'm skeptical of the author's argument that this is some new phenomena though. I'm also skeptical of the idea that if you're being more careful and precise in your language it means you're just doing it to ignore real problems. Not saying no one has ever done that before. But our brains think with language, so the language we use matters and affects ourselves as much as others, in my opinion. It's not something that should be used in place of fixing problems, but something that could potentially help people think in that direction.

Being reductive can have disadvantages though, if you're thinking of someone as "a diabetic" it can lead to cognitive traps and premature closure on diagonoses that may make someone miss important additional information or considerations. Medical records are also now immediately shared with patients, for better or worse, and it can sometimes be a shock to read. It may not be true for you, but many people can get a negative view of how they think their doctor must see them if the language in the notes isn't careful, and it may harm a working physician-patient relationship. How people's identities and diagnoses interact is complex to say the least, and can vary a lot between people.

I don't think every interaction needs to be an affirmation of a life story or something elaborate, but I think there are times when it can be easy to lose the humanity in a situation with bad results. A little cognitive reminder can be a helpful piece in dehumanizing places like the medical system (especially in the medical system, in which most health care providers are striving not to be dehumanizing against a heavy current in that direction).

Shame they couldn't extend that to being anti Russian government again at least.

This exactly. It's not just about the euphemism treadmill as some people here are saying, it's also about how the construction of the language or phrasing chosen makes you think of a person. For instance in medical documentation, "this is a 57 year old diabetic male who presents with... " just sounds and feels very dehumanizing compared to "this is a 57 year old man with a history of diabetes who presents with..." It gets across the same exact meaning, but a patient reading the first version could reasonably feel like they're being reduced to just one thing instead of what was intended (to highlight that having diabetes is important background information for the story about the person to follow).

As for the euphemism treadmill aspects, we'll never outrun that; language and meanings are always changing, and we can't pretend it doesn't. We'll always need to be changing our language with time as language itself evolves if we want to have the same or similar meanings as before.