Yay another drone story. I mean there was the drones getting approved by the FAA, then the drone that got shot down, then this drone, and drones everywhere. You'd think it was almost as if someone was pushing some sort of agenda. And drones for the environment. See? Aren't drones good? Now go back to your room and behave, because we're watching...
You have the right to a second opinion. Personally I would never allow myself to be treated by a physician willing to do so over the phone... but at the end of the day the responsibility is back in your lap - did you just not feel like going to the doctor's office that day, or were you just trying to avoid being billed by asking him to diagnose you over the phone? I'm sorry but it's like car "accidents". Yeah maybe one party was more culpable than the other one, but at the end of the day both drivers are to blame. Patients have the right to insist on being examined properly. If you don't do that, well, you end up with mediocre doctors who diagnose and prescribe over the phone. Hoping that some third party with authority (government, licensing board, etc) will step in and make it all better for you and force doctors to do 100% of what they have to do is just naive. You are allowed to shop around and a really good doctor is hard to find, like everything else.
because doctors are infallible, and never make mistakes.
No we are certainly fallible and mistakes do happen. But since we are professionals we tend to make a lot fewer mistakes than the average person. You start getting the hang of what you're doing around your 5,000th 3am patient.
just a matter of time until we either return to a civilized system
You mean like in the 1950's when no one was searched or x-rayed at all? After all, no one would be stupid to blow up the plane they are on, right? I don't know why people have this obsession with "not dying" - we are all going to die sooner or later, be it disease or a car crash or a plane crash or yes, even the remote chance of a terrorist plot. But terrorism only works because people allow themselves the live in fear. And while it can be argued that screening helps reduce the chance of terrorism on an airplane - it does not eliminate it as has been proven with the shoe/underwear bombers both of whom failed NO THANKS to the security screeners who let them on the planes.
Honestly I would prever less intrusion into my private life and my private parts, and take my chances. Better to live one day as a lion than 1,000 years as a sheep.
Funny, I am not even from the US. I have citizenship in 3 countries, I speak 4 languages, and have lived on 3 different continents. Keep telling yourself that you are a good judge of people.
Try it. You will have to involve a judge to compel me to get a tow truck to remove your car from my property. But you sir are not allowed onto my land, and your car should not have been there in the first place. Breaking the law by trespassing does not grant you a "right of way" or any other claim on someone else's land.
No it doesn't give me ownership. But you are not allowed to come onto my property to get your ball, that's trespassing. If I want the ball to stay there forever, it's going to stay there forever. I don't need ownership, but I can deny you access.
I am guessing that you are allowed to fly over private property
Sure. You're not allowed to take pictures of people on private property though - especially when they have said they do not want their picture taken. I am assuming that the hunters must have confused the drone for a pigeon.
2001 is not recent. In fact in medical school if you cite papers that are 10+ years old you are likely to be told off. Medicine is a fast moving field.
A kilogram? Where did you get that number? Your intestine contains approximately 1 x 10^11 gram negative bacteria per ml, however I hardly think they make up a kilogram.
Actually when you stop the antibiotics. If lactobacillus happen to be sensitive to the antibiotic you are taking all you are doing is throwing more cannon fodder into the microbial carnage.
No. Results are usually seen within 24 hours and if there is no improvement after 48 hours the treatment can be considered ineffective. How do I know? I'm a doctor.
Ahh but they know that most AT&T users are Apple-crack addicts and thus will bend over and take it anyway. Remember these are the people that camp out in a line for the latest cell phone because, well, waiting a whole extra day to get one would be just too much. Apparently Steve Jobs only used to masturbate on the first 1000 phones sold at any Apple Store, so you had to get the first ones.
Takes NO airtime. SMS are sent over the control channel which your cell phone is talking to every now and then anyway to know which towers to use. And because the messages are so short, there really is no overhead.
Except for the 0.1% of passengers who develop fulminant hepatitis due to an allergic reaction to the halothane, and the other couple percent of passengers who die for all sorts of other reasons because of underlying health problems they did or didn't know about.
Anaesthesia is not to be dicked around with. Sincerely - a doc.
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Yay another drone story. I mean there was the drones getting approved by the FAA, then the drone that got shot down, then this drone, and drones everywhere. You'd think it was almost as if someone was pushing some sort of agenda. And drones for the environment. See? Aren't drones good? Now go back to your room and behave, because we're watching...
You have the right to a second opinion. Personally I would never allow myself to be treated by a physician willing to do so over the phone... but at the end of the day the responsibility is back in your lap - did you just not feel like going to the doctor's office that day, or were you just trying to avoid being billed by asking him to diagnose you over the phone? I'm sorry but it's like car "accidents". Yeah maybe one party was more culpable than the other one, but at the end of the day both drivers are to blame. Patients have the right to insist on being examined properly. If you don't do that, well, you end up with mediocre doctors who diagnose and prescribe over the phone. Hoping that some third party with authority (government, licensing board, etc) will step in and make it all better for you and force doctors to do 100% of what they have to do is just naive. You are allowed to shop around and a really good doctor is hard to find, like everything else.
because doctors are infallible, and never make mistakes.
No we are certainly fallible and mistakes do happen. But since we are professionals we tend to make a lot fewer mistakes than the average person. You start getting the hang of what you're doing around your 5,000th 3am patient.
just a matter of time until we either return to a civilized system
You mean like in the 1950's when no one was searched or x-rayed at all? After all, no one would be stupid to blow up the plane they are on, right? I don't know why people have this obsession with "not dying" - we are all going to die sooner or later, be it disease or a car crash or a plane crash or yes, even the remote chance of a terrorist plot. But terrorism only works because people allow themselves the live in fear. And while it can be argued that screening helps reduce the chance of terrorism on an airplane - it does not eliminate it as has been proven with the shoe/underwear bombers both of whom failed NO THANKS to the security screeners who let them on the planes.
Honestly I would prever less intrusion into my private life and my private parts, and take my chances. Better to live one day as a lion than 1,000 years as a sheep.
At the very least we could get the Supreme Court to weigh in on the question.
Have you seen the shit coming from the Supreme Court lately? As if that is going to help at all...
Funny, I am not even from the US. I have citizenship in 3 countries, I speak 4 languages, and have lived on 3 different continents. Keep telling yourself that you are a good judge of people.
Some would argue that it has worked for government. Worked rather well, in fact.
There are a lot of things I hate about the US, but free speech is NOT one of them.
Unfortunately the biggest hater of free speech nowadays seems to be the US...
When politicians make good moves
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No it's not a privilege it's a license, idiot. Do you even know what license means?
Try it. You will have to involve a judge to compel me to get a tow truck to remove your car from my property. But you sir are not allowed onto my land, and your car should not have been there in the first place. Breaking the law by trespassing does not grant you a "right of way" or any other claim on someone else's land.
No it doesn't give me ownership. But you are not allowed to come onto my property to get your ball, that's trespassing. If I want the ball to stay there forever, it's going to stay there forever. I don't need ownership, but I can deny you access.
I am guessing that you are allowed to fly over private property
Sure. You're not allowed to take pictures of people on private property though - especially when they have said they do not want their picture taken. I am assuming that the hunters must have confused the drone for a pigeon.
Medicine.
apples and oranges.
2001 is not recent. In fact in medical school if you cite papers that are 10+ years old you are likely to be told off. Medicine is a fast moving field.
A kilogram? Where did you get that number? Your intestine contains approximately 1 x 10^11 gram negative bacteria per ml, however I hardly think they make up a kilogram.
Actually when you stop the antibiotics. If lactobacillus happen to be sensitive to the antibiotic you are taking all you are doing is throwing more cannon fodder into the microbial carnage.
No. Results are usually seen within 24 hours and if there is no improvement after 48 hours the treatment can be considered ineffective. How do I know? I'm a doctor.
to provide UI variance, enabling serious tablet users to expose the OS complexity necessary to do real work.
Nah, can't be stupid shit. Sounds too much like someone's resume or some company's "mission statement".
Ahh but they know that most AT&T users are Apple-crack addicts and thus will bend over and take it anyway. Remember these are the people that camp out in a line for the latest cell phone because, well, waiting a whole extra day to get one would be just too much. Apparently Steve Jobs only used to masturbate on the first 1000 phones sold at any Apple Store, so you had to get the first ones.
Astronomical margins, barely takes any airtime.
Takes NO airtime. SMS are sent over the control channel which your cell phone is talking to every now and then anyway to know which towers to use. And because the messages are so short, there really is no overhead.
Pan Am used to regularly upgrade me to first class flying from London to Miami because they overbooked. Sigh, those were the days.
Everything on my side of the electric meter IS proprietary.
Except for the 0.1% of passengers who develop fulminant hepatitis due to an allergic reaction to the halothane, and the other couple percent of passengers who die for all sorts of other reasons because of underlying health problems they did or didn't know about.
Anaesthesia is not to be dicked around with. Sincerely - a doc.