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You mean, you want to analyze each chemical in the tears (or at least each one that is in an abnormal concentration in sad women's tears) to see if it does, what? Oh, I know, to see if it makes men less horny. But how did you know it should make them less horny? By doing a research such as the one in TFA. Science has many steps and levels of research. Usually you start by researching a general phenomenon and deriving a basic idea of "what the heck is happening" (i.e. sad women's tears cause men to be less sexually aroused). After that you go into smaller details and try to find what is causing said phenomenon (i.e. chemical X and/or Y cause men to be less sexually aroused). And the last step is using the sum of all the small details to make a theory that can be put to practical use (e.g. let's make product MakeWomenSafe(TM) to chemically castrate too-sexually violent men). Not always do we have all of those steps, but it's hard to start at the gas chromatography stage before finishing the first, general step - which is also actual science.
Of course we don't spend all of our time on "worthy" causes, and obviously leisure, arts, recreation, sports and other non-productive activities have their place. OTOH, I have to agree that spending $500 million of a monolith to the Moon seems excessive. And yes, if we managed to bring so many people together on one cause, let's make it a bit more worthwhile than a Monolith. Or are we engaged in "compensating":)
Actually, it's quite sad that the option that the politician does not know what he is trying to pass is concievable. You would think that a professional would be well versed in the material he is working on. In the case of politicians (which are supposed to be our professional law-makers), we assume he does not have more than a passing aquaintance with the laws he is proposing. And the alternative is that he is blanatly lying. Amazing! Well, I must be new here...:)
Yes, it's easy to copy a song, however, the artist that created it still needs to be paid. If everyone copied for free, then he has a problem. And I don't think he should be living on a government grant. He deserves more than that, and definitely more than the cashier in Walmart.
Since I don't live in the US (Israel), it's hard for me to compare my salary to the amount you said (I don't make $35,000, but costs of living in Israel are different, so...). However, someone who just finished B.A in C.S. or E.E. can earn in his first job about twice as much as I make, including the extra I make for staying in the hospital for 24h. I agree that everyone is important. I believe it was in Italy, about 10y ago (I am not sure about the details) that the cleaning people of the hospital wanted a raise. After a 3 day strike, the hospital caved-in and gave them what they wanted. But the thing is, you don't pay someone for how important or critical is position is, but by how hard it is (or how much traiing you need in order) to replace him. The cleaning lady is important, but you can replace her very easily, (almost) anyone can perform her job. The CEO, programmer, nurse, doctor, etc., are much harder to replace. How much should be the difference between the lowest and highest paying job? That's a hard question which has been debated for decades. IMHO, it should be enough to give someone the incentive to train for the higher paying job (or put conversely, not low enough to be a deterrent to investing the years in studying for that job). In Israel there are doctors who finish their studies and then go to the US because of the salary. If this continues, it could be a problem that should signal someone that the wages needs to be adjusted.
The key phrase is "accepting the current situation". If the current situation is that the work is being done by overworked workers (now say that 10 times fast), which endangers patients' safety, that should be incentive enough for a change. In an ideal world, that is.
Maybe a few lawsuits, against the hospital, and not the doctors, would do the trick...
Just because they raised the priority of the bug does not mean they think its a security or performance issue, just that they finally understood that a misent SMS is a critical issue. The parent is still correct that a performance issue is, roughly speaking, something that causes the device to act slower than it sould be, and security is (again, generaly speaking) something that exposes the phone to exploits.
Why stop at muric and other art forms? Why not have all thing available for any amount you wish to pay? I want to buy food? Great, I'll go to the Walmart and take whatever I want and pay whatever I want. And I don't have enough money, or just don't feel like paying? Have the government give everyone a living wage. And why stop there? You want a new oven? Same thing. Don't pay! Have the government subsidize it.
Although Art has many lofty goals, it is also a source of income for people. If the artist demand a price for it, you should pay. If he gives it for free, great! But to tell the artist he shouldn't charge for his work while using great-sounding socialist ideals (which, BTW, worked so great for Mother Russia), is naive at best, and stupid at worst.
In general you are correct, the medical community should do whatever it takes to prevent its personnal from working while sleep deprived. However, if the entire system is short-staffed, making a regulation that says "no working more than 16 hours straight", is logical, and great, and everything, but it is not practical - you do not have the manpower to abide by it. And also, what is an elective surgery? Replacement of a cataract lens is an elective surgery, but also cancer surgery. The doctor may have done all the pre-operative workup and then sent him home only to be operated on in, say, 2 weeks. This is still elective. Do you want the surgery postpones until we can manage a not tired staff?
Again, don't get me wrong. I'm all for manadating short working hours for the medical community. However, this solution feels like giving Adex for a headache and disregarding the real problem. If we have enough doctors in the hospital, then we can talk about mandating short work hours.
You are one sick puppy! I mean, you had an argument about a fucking HOSTS file and you didn't agree. What do you do? Do you go back to your private rwal-world life and ignore the other person's comment? No, you find out when he posts regarding a completely unrelated topic and flame him there. Get a life, man.
Oh, and you still didn't find the time to register a username on/. (or you really are a coward). Sweet.
When we talk about healthcare spending, we usually talk about how much of a person's income is spent on healthcare. I assure you that the regular Joe doesn't spend a dime on research. And BTW, there are many places in the world that perform medical research besides the US, may of them perform much more research, relative to the size of their population.
How about we cut IT's wages to 1/3 then hire twice as many? That will sure solve many problems caused by not enough IT people and save money! If you cut my pay to 1/3, I wouldn't be making minimum wage. Is it too much to ask to get a decent salary as an M.D.? I think I'm doing an important enough job.
A few people corrected me before you, and I accept the correction. I agree the correct word is "privilege" and not "right". No need to insult. I assure you my ethics and respect for patients is better than my English.
The thing is, 1 doctor working 24 hours costs less than 3 doctors working 8 hours shifts. It's part of the law of diminished returns. Why is that? First of all, there is always overlap. When the replacement doctor comes, you need to show him the department, go over the patients, etc. Second, in addition to the cost per hour, there are global costs, such as benefits (which you mentioned). Lastly, in Israel the amount paid a doctor per shift is fixed, there is no overtime. You get X amount of shequels per shift. I don't think having 3 shifts would cause X to be divided by 3, most likely it will be divided by a smaller number -> larger overall payment per day.
As always, there is only one explanation to a problem. The world is always so simple./sarcasm Yes, the middle men are a problem, but that is not everything. In Israel we have 4 HMOs, not one nationalhealthcare system, and still we spend about a quarter the amount the average US citizen spends on healthcare, and we have a better healthcare system. So a private HMO isn't the only culprit. Regardless, new technologies and drugs are a source of increased medical spending.
At least in Israel (but I believe it is true in most countries) a doctor may do any procedure if he has sufficient skill. What is "sufficient skill"? It might be another diploma (such as completion of residency), but it can also be "I did it 100 times and believe I am good enough to perform this" (which may be true in many minor procedures. Ultimatly, you have to be sure enough that if something goes wrong, you can stand in court and convince the judge you didn't do something out of your league. In Israel many doctors also perform circumcision. They don't have to have a license for that, but they better be damn sure what they are doing, because if they cut too much... And a pediatrician may (in theory) drain a peritonsillar abscess (abscess in the tissue at the base of the tonsils; a complications of tonsillitis) if he is sure he can do it, even if he is not an ENT doctor. But you are correct, I am required to refuse to perform procedures I am not sufficiently skilled in performing. And the informed consent for has a clause that the surgery is performed by a sufficiently skilled surgeon.
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You mean, you want to analyze each chemical in the tears (or at least each one that is in an abnormal concentration in sad women's tears) to see if it does, what? Oh, I know, to see if it makes men less horny. But how did you know it should make them less horny? By doing a research such as the one in TFA.
Science has many steps and levels of research. Usually you start by researching a general phenomenon and deriving a basic idea of "what the heck is happening" (i.e. sad women's tears cause men to be less sexually aroused). After that you go into smaller details and try to find what is causing said phenomenon (i.e. chemical X and/or Y cause men to be less sexually aroused). And the last step is using the sum of all the small details to make a theory that can be put to practical use (e.g. let's make product MakeWomenSafe(TM) to chemically castrate too-sexually violent men).
Not always do we have all of those steps, but it's hard to start at the gas chromatography stage before finishing the first, general step - which is also actual science.
Of course we don't spend all of our time on "worthy" causes, and obviously leisure, arts, recreation, sports and other non-productive activities have their place. OTOH, I have to agree that spending $500 million of a monolith to the Moon seems excessive. And yes, if we managed to bring so many people together on one cause, let's make it a bit more worthwhile than a Monolith. :)
Or are we engaged in "compensating"
Actually, it's quite sad that the option that the politician does not know what he is trying to pass is concievable. You would think that a professional would be well versed in the material he is working on. In the case of politicians (which are supposed to be our professional law-makers), we assume he does not have more than a passing aquaintance with the laws he is proposing. And the alternative is that he is blanatly lying. Amazing! :)
Well, I must be new here...
They're not dead, they're resting!
It may be so, but I was talking about Soviet Russia, AKA U.S.S.R, AKA the greatest experiment in socialism .
Yes, it's easy to copy a song, however, the artist that created it still needs to be paid. If everyone copied for free, then he has a problem. And I don't think he should be living on a government grant. He deserves more than that, and definitely more than the cashier in Walmart.
Since I don't live in the US (Israel), it's hard for me to compare my salary to the amount you said (I don't make $35,000, but costs of living in Israel are different, so...). However, someone who just finished B.A in C.S. or E.E. can earn in his first job about twice as much as I make, including the extra I make for staying in the hospital for 24h.
I agree that everyone is important. I believe it was in Italy, about 10y ago (I am not sure about the details) that the cleaning people of the hospital wanted a raise. After a 3 day strike, the hospital caved-in and gave them what they wanted. But the thing is, you don't pay someone for how important or critical is position is, but by how hard it is (or how much traiing you need in order) to replace him. The cleaning lady is important, but you can replace her very easily, (almost) anyone can perform her job. The CEO, programmer, nurse, doctor, etc., are much harder to replace.
How much should be the difference between the lowest and highest paying job? That's a hard question which has been debated for decades. IMHO, it should be enough to give someone the incentive to train for the higher paying job (or put conversely, not low enough to be a deterrent to investing the years in studying for that job). In Israel there are doctors who finish their studies and then go to the US because of the salary. If this continues, it could be a problem that should signal someone that the wages needs to be adjusted.
The key phrase is "accepting the current situation". If the current situation is that the work is being done by overworked workers (now say that 10 times fast), which endangers patients' safety, that should be incentive enough for a change.
In an ideal world, that is.
Maybe a few lawsuits, against the hospital, and not the doctors, would do the trick...
Just because they raised the priority of the bug does not mean they think its a security or performance issue, just that they finally understood that a misent SMS is a critical issue.
The parent is still correct that a performance issue is, roughly speaking, something that causes the device to act slower than it sould be, and security is (again, generaly speaking) something that exposes the phone to exploits.
Performance and security: I don't think these words mean what you think they mean.
Why stop at muric and other art forms? Why not have all thing available for any amount you wish to pay?
I want to buy food? Great, I'll go to the Walmart and take whatever I want and pay whatever I want. And I don't have enough money, or just don't feel like paying? Have the government give everyone a living wage.
And why stop there? You want a new oven? Same thing. Don't pay! Have the government subsidize it.
Although Art has many lofty goals, it is also a source of income for people. If the artist demand a price for it, you should pay. If he gives it for free, great! But to tell the artist he shouldn't charge for his work while using great-sounding socialist ideals (which, BTW, worked so great for Mother Russia), is naive at best, and stupid at worst.
In general you are correct, the medical community should do whatever it takes to prevent its personnal from working while sleep deprived. However, if the entire system is short-staffed, making a regulation that says "no working more than 16 hours straight", is logical, and great, and everything, but it is not practical - you do not have the manpower to abide by it.
And also, what is an elective surgery? Replacement of a cataract lens is an elective surgery, but also cancer surgery. The doctor may have done all the pre-operative workup and then sent him home only to be operated on in, say, 2 weeks. This is still elective. Do you want the surgery postpones until we can manage a not tired staff?
Again, don't get me wrong. I'm all for manadating short working hours for the medical community. However, this solution feels like giving Adex for a headache and disregarding the real problem. If we have enough doctors in the hospital, then we can talk about mandating short work hours.
You are one sick puppy! I mean, you had an argument about a fucking HOSTS file and you didn't agree. What do you do? Do you go back to your private rwal-world life and ignore the other person's comment? No, you find out when he posts regarding a completely unrelated topic and flame him there.
Get a life, man.
Oh, and you still didn't find the time to register a username on /. (or you really are a coward). Sweet.
When we talk about healthcare spending, we usually talk about how much of a person's income is spent on healthcare. I assure you that the regular Joe doesn't spend a dime on research.
And BTW, there are many places in the world that perform medical research besides the US, may of them perform much more research, relative to the size of their population.
How about we cut IT's wages to 1/3 then hire twice as many? That will sure solve many problems caused by not enough IT people and save money!
If you cut my pay to 1/3, I wouldn't be making minimum wage. Is it too much to ask to get a decent salary as an M.D.? I think I'm doing an important enough job.
A few people corrected me before you, and I accept the correction. I agree the correct word is "privilege" and not "right". No need to insult. I assure you my ethics and respect for patients is better than my English.
It isn't? What's wrong with you people?
The thing is, 1 doctor working 24 hours costs less than 3 doctors working 8 hours shifts. It's part of the law of diminished returns. Why is that? First of all, there is always overlap. When the replacement doctor comes, you need to show him the department, go over the patients, etc.
Second, in addition to the cost per hour, there are global costs, such as benefits (which you mentioned).
Lastly, in Israel the amount paid a doctor per shift is fixed, there is no overtime. You get X amount of shequels per shift. I don't think having 3 shifts would cause X to be divided by 3, most likely it will be divided by a smaller number -> larger overall payment per day.
Guess you haven't talked to too many surgeons in your life. Surgeons are born to operate, preferably on patients that are anesthetized. :)
As advances in semiconductor fabrication make gargantuan amounts of RAM cheaper, high-end users will do more of their work in RAM.
Now you have a bold prediction.
Sincerely,
me
As always, there is only one explanation to a problem. The world is always so simple. /sarcasm
Yes, the middle men are a problem, but that is not everything. In Israel we have 4 HMOs, not one nationalhealthcare system, and still we spend about a quarter the amount the average US citizen spends on healthcare, and we have a better healthcare system. So a private HMO isn't the only culprit.
Regardless, new technologies and drugs are a source of increased medical spending.
At least in Israel (but I believe it is true in most countries) a doctor may do any procedure if he has sufficient skill. What is "sufficient skill"? It might be another diploma (such as completion of residency), but it can also be "I did it 100 times and believe I am good enough to perform this" (which may be true in many minor procedures. Ultimatly, you have to be sure enough that if something goes wrong, you can stand in court and convince the judge you didn't do something out of your league.
In Israel many doctors also perform circumcision. They don't have to have a license for that, but they better be damn sure what they are doing, because if they cut too much... And a pediatrician may (in theory) drain a peritonsillar abscess (abscess in the tissue at the base of the tonsils; a complications of tonsillitis) if he is sure he can do it, even if he is not an ENT doctor.
But you are correct, I am required to refuse to perform procedures I am not sufficiently skilled in performing. And the informed consent for has a clause that the surgery is performed by a sufficiently skilled surgeon.
Mostly? New technologies and medications, they are the biggest drivers of increased healthcare spending.