> It's insane that you see "25% of women in %demographic% have experienced 'nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching involving physical force or incapacitation,'", and your reaction is "those lying btiches!".
[eyeroll]
Not to anyone that's had at least one course in statistics...
Or to anyone that's been subjected to corporate sexual harassment training...
Or to anyone that's been subjected to campus indoctrination on this subject...
"Sexual touching" could be distorted to mean anything.
Again, the numbers are being intentionally distorted to create a story where there may or may not even be one.
No. This stuff is all online and not that expensive to access.
Like I said, well motivated patients will keep up with this stuff. It's like a hobby. So this stuff can hardly be a burdensome expense for doctors.
Never mind the fact that Doctors aren't exactly suffering from poverty. A few journal subscriptions would be like a drop in the bucket compared to their med-mal premiums. It's a business expense like anything else including their medical billing service.
On the first day of Aeronautics 101, before our professor said anything else, our professor told us about how he was called upon to consult for a racing team. They were having trouble getting maximum performance out of the car. He suggested a couple of tweaks to improve the car's aerodynamics and that improved the car's performance.
THIS is the kind of thing you say to NASCAR fans instead of insulting them like some sort of middle school know-it-all.
Nye's comments were a huge slap in the face to a lot of practicing ENGINEERS.
As a patient, the only thing that really matters in pain management is effectiveness. Sometimes that requires going against the recommendations of beaurocrats. A drug that doesn't do it's job (or makes things worse) is really quite pointless regardless of what other criteria it meets.
Also, I don't think there's really anything new to be said about the toxicity of Tylenol. It's an old and well understood thing. Any changes now likely come down to politics.
Tylenol is really very easy to OD on. It's an over the counter medicine that people treat lightly. It's in a number of different products. You can easily get too much of it if you aren't really careful. The gap between "strong dose" and "overdose" is relatively small.
In some places, most of the ODs are from Tylenol rather than some street drug like heroin.
I would not necessarily assume that the GP was ignorant. The surgeon might also have a different perspective on things based on his practice. Similarly, an ER doctor might be really paranoid as she might see Tylenol OD's all the time.
If you are "taking an active interest" in health care, you don't need drug advertising. If anything, that kind of activity is directed at the most ignorant and least engaged kind of patient/consumer out there. THAT is actually the problem. Drug ads drive conspicuous consumers and distort healthcare and turn some doctors into glorified pushers.
This is the Internet age, if you want to genuinely educate yourself about something then you can.
> Then don't - the same way you can avoid paying for BMW's advertising by not buying a BMW.
That's just assinine. These are MEDICAL TREATMENTS we're talking about here. Some of them aren't even a matter of personal preference, there's a very real public safety element to some of them. Tolerating PESTILENCE is a VERY BAD idea.
Not to mention that these things are monopolies.
Medical journals cover the extent to which doctors actually need to be informed about this stuff. The rest is just milking a system that's already close to it's breaking point.
This seems like something the plane should be able to do all by itself. This is $50M aircraft. It should be at least as sophisticated as a hospital bed.
...and even if it is something that can reasonably assumed to be piracy, that doesn't mean that it's piracy of one particular cartel's stuff. Even if you establish that someone is indeed a thief, it doesn't mean that they are automatically stealing from YOU.
The aggrieved party still needs to demonstrate that they are the real victim.
> Ah, yes, because the USA have such a sterling record of accepting and protecting its minorities... NOT.
Compared to the way most of the world treats it's own people, the USA is hardly evil. Improved opportunities are why pretty much the entire planet wants to come here.
People are free to be what they want here. That includes being jackasses.
No. A chiropractor would have at least made an adjustment.
Although regardless of their "branch" of medicine, neither a proper physical therapist nor a chiropractor would do a "one and done". Both would expect treatment to require time and be up front about it.
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You probably owe your existence to "animal torture".
> It's insane that you see "25% of women in %demographic% have experienced 'nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching involving physical force or incapacitation,'", and your reaction is "those lying btiches!".
[eyeroll]
Not to anyone that's had at least one course in statistics...
Or to anyone that's been subjected to corporate sexual harassment training...
Or to anyone that's been subjected to campus indoctrination on this subject...
"Sexual touching" could be distorted to mean anything.
Again, the numbers are being intentionally distorted to create a story where there may or may not even be one.
No. This stuff is all online and not that expensive to access.
Like I said, well motivated patients will keep up with this stuff. It's like a hobby. So this stuff can hardly be a burdensome expense for doctors.
Never mind the fact that Doctors aren't exactly suffering from poverty. A few journal subscriptions would be like a drop in the bucket compared to their med-mal premiums. It's a business expense like anything else including their medical billing service.
Bill Nye is another anti-Sagan (just like Tyson).
On the first day of Aeronautics 101, before our professor said anything else, our professor told us about how he was called upon to consult for a racing team. They were having trouble getting maximum performance out of the car. He suggested a couple of tweaks to improve the car's aerodynamics and that improved the car's performance.
THIS is the kind of thing you say to NASCAR fans instead of insulting them like some sort of middle school know-it-all.
Nye's comments were a huge slap in the face to a lot of practicing ENGINEERS.
As a patient, the only thing that really matters in pain management is effectiveness. Sometimes that requires going against the recommendations of beaurocrats. A drug that doesn't do it's job (or makes things worse) is really quite pointless regardless of what other criteria it meets.
Also, I don't think there's really anything new to be said about the toxicity of Tylenol. It's an old and well understood thing. Any changes now likely come down to politics.
Tylenol is really very easy to OD on. It's an over the counter medicine that people treat lightly. It's in a number of different products. You can easily get too much of it if you aren't really careful. The gap between "strong dose" and "overdose" is relatively small.
In some places, most of the ODs are from Tylenol rather than some street drug like heroin.
I would not necessarily assume that the GP was ignorant. The surgeon might also have a different perspective on things based on his practice. Similarly, an ER doctor might be really paranoid as she might see Tylenol OD's all the time.
You people really are terribly clueless for all of the noise you're making about this subject.
If you are "taking an active interest" in health care, you don't need drug advertising. If anything, that kind of activity is directed at the most ignorant and least engaged kind of patient/consumer out there. THAT is actually the problem. Drug ads drive conspicuous consumers and distort healthcare and turn some doctors into glorified pushers.
This is the Internet age, if you want to genuinely educate yourself about something then you can.
Peer reviewed scientific journals.
They also have the added benefit of not being an obviously biased source.
This also works for sufficiently motivated patients BTW...
> Then don't - the same way you can avoid paying for BMW's advertising by not buying a BMW.
That's just assinine. These are MEDICAL TREATMENTS we're talking about here. Some of them aren't even a matter of personal preference, there's a very real public safety element to some of them. Tolerating PESTILENCE is a VERY BAD idea.
Not to mention that these things are monopolies.
Medical journals cover the extent to which doctors actually need to be informed about this stuff. The rest is just milking a system that's already close to it's breaking point.
> Its a free country,
Yes, a "free country" where you aren't actually allowed to go out and buy those drugs for yourself.
If you aren't competent to buy the product yourself, you aren't competent to be advertised to.
Nope.
"More secure,safer,and protected from the crazies" sounds more like being a police officer than being in one of the "caring professions".
What the OP said. Even algorithms don't require physical computing hardware be present.
This is kind of trying to teach kids to run while still making walking (basic math in general) seem scary and unapproachable.
The butthurt is strong in this one...
This seems like something the plane should be able to do all by itself. This is $50M aircraft. It should be at least as sophisticated as a hospital bed.
...and even if it is something that can reasonably assumed to be piracy, that doesn't mean that it's piracy of one particular cartel's stuff. Even if you establish that someone is indeed a thief, it doesn't mean that they are automatically stealing from YOU.
The aggrieved party still needs to demonstrate that they are the real victim.
> Ah, yes, because the USA have such a sterling record of accepting and protecting its minorities... NOT.
Compared to the way most of the world treats it's own people, the USA is hardly evil. Improved opportunities are why pretty much the entire planet wants to come here.
People are free to be what they want here. That includes being jackasses.
> You've never read the Christian Bible.
That is quite literally ancient history.
You would have to add up quite a number of US "mass killings" to reach parity with what just happened in a single incident today.
Plus, this isn't just drug gangs killing each other in the hood.
Macs have similar gaming performance and they're somewhat more mainstream.
Having one less reason to touch Windows is well worth the extra cost and "lesser performance".
Actually, that kind of trade off would work really well.
Also note that Mac games suffer the same penalties.
A regulated medical profession in a free market imposes these same kinds of rules already.
They don't push for "things better than a placebo". They push for things better than "best possible current treatment".
Read an actual trial report sometime.
No. A chiropractor would have at least made an adjustment.
Although regardless of their "branch" of medicine, neither a proper physical therapist nor a chiropractor would do a "one and done". Both would expect treatment to require time and be up front about it.