You're talking about type 2 diabetes, which is a problem but almost never quickly results in an immediately life-threatening state. Type 1 diabetes can and does, but it's a much more difficult disease to manage.
Vomiting in your sleep does not result in aspiration unless you're passed out from drugs or alcohol. Ever had a single drop of water go down the wrong way? And that was just water - i.e., not chemically irritating in itself. Furthermore, while your kid may be allergic to eggs, throwing up a cupcake some hours after the fact isn't an allergic reaction.
With the extra (and useful) qualification that you don't have to have a legally bought CD in order to play the music.ASCAP and BMI don't care how you got it.
A company officer would have to have signed it after the submission by the prospective employee in order for it to be a valid agreement. If said officer was silly enough to have signed it without reviewing it and any modifications, well, that's their problem.
I'm in the Southeast. Water co-ops are pretty common here, although I suppose I should have said "semi-rural" there since many of them service very small towns ( 1000 population) and their surrounding areas.
Not in the US, they didn't. Aside from municipal water supplies (which arose largely because installing water and sewer systems involves ripping up all your streets, something that isn't going to work without local gov cooperation) and the US Government's hydroelectric power organizations, utilities are private. In many rural areas, water is provided by privately-owned co-ops.
You were suckered in. I saw the light and went into medicine. It's not a perfect job, and it's definitely not science, but it's interesting and it pays well.
No, no, no. No. What comes out of you is a function of your kidneys. Drinking distilled water as your only source of water is absolutely harmless. There are limits, of course, to how much your kidneys can concentrate or dilute your urine, but unless you are trying to kill yourself with water intoxication or have a disease, you'll be fine. You do need a certain electrolyte intake, but it's actually quite small. People who have electrolyte disturbances almost always have them because they have no kidney function, or they're taking drugs that alter kidney function, or they're intentionally taking electrolytes, or they're unable to feed themselves and are dehydrated.
aggressively all day, all evening, and still have enough power in the morning to last until noon
That's a phone that has to be charged every night during the week, because it can't do two full days' work on a single charge. Sure, my phone can easily do 48 hours or more on the weekend without a charge, but in the work week, it charges every night.
Maybe not for you. For some of us, it definitely is. If it goes below 50% charge after a day of use, it will be dead before the end of the second day, and so you have to charge it every night.
The iPhone - and it really was the first in this category - got people to charge their phone every single night. Since then people have understood that part of the price you pay for having a smartphone instead of a RAZR (or one of the beasts that had a really long battery life - I had a dumpy looking Moto phone that could easily get ten days of standby if I didn't use it much) is that you have to charge it every night. As long as it gives a full 9-10 hours, most people don't care. If I can get 16 hours without a charge under heavy call/text use, I'm fine.
Why is it that doctors can't work normal 40 hour weeks? Just increase the supply to compensate...
It has to be covered 24/7, but the work load isn't evenly distributed over the hours. That's why. I go to work at 6:30 every morning except when I'm on vacation or post call. I'm almost never there at 3 AM. Call is how we do things because it's preferable to paying people to work night shifts in our situation.
Remember, most doctors are not hospital employees (and have no interest in becoming hospital employees). They don't get paid if they don't produce. I was called in at 3:45 the other morning for a potential bad situation - mother with twins, first had delivered, second was breech and stuck. I drove like a bat out of hell to the hospital and ran upstairs as fast as I could. When I got there, the OB/GYN had gotten baby #2 out safely. I turned around and went home. Neither I nor my group received a penny in compensation for that. While I'm glad both kids are fine, that's ultimately why doctors take call rather than shifts: nobody will pay us for our time, only for our services.
I'm an anesthesiologist, I know what residency is like, but the new rules for interns more or less demand that they work shifts. I had assumed the upper-levels had changed to match.
You always x-ray one joint above and below the injury. When your ankle is shattered, you might not notice the pain in your lower thigh, but that doesn't mean there's not a break.
I'm not convinced that this couldn't have been done FAR less expensively by a technician.
Liability coverage if they screw up. Plus, who wants to go to the insurance plan that doesn't pay for you to see a doctor? We tried that with HMO's, and people fled in droves. Sensibly or not, people want an MD to make the decisions.
You can't get a residency without an interview, if that makes you feel any better about it. However, there are bigger problems. First, interviews will weed out the ones who are so introverted that they can't carry half of a conversation, but it won't do anything for the glib assholes who have no trouble holding it together for a day of interviews. Second, individual programs have a significant interest in taking the strongest test-takers regardless of ability because programs are judged by the rate at which their graduates take and pass the specialty's board examinations.
The problem with reference letters, etc., is that a system that works primarily on references as opposed to test scores quickly becomes an old boys' club. The tests really do limit that aspect - while there is of course an advantage to going to Harvard med as opposed to a state school, it's actually fairly small when trying to get a residency, because everyone takes the same tests and can use them to demonstrate ability. I've encouraged premeds to aim for the top but not to waste their time with any other out-of-state schools for that very reason - unlike law school, where you go to med school is not very important for most medical careers (though if you want to work at NIH or CDC it is), so unless you're at one of the top 5 or so it's better to go to a state school to save money. You'll probably get a better class rank, too.
You'd be surprised how many things creep into charts based on lore and rumor. Asking over and over again helps keep down the cruft, especially with important things, like allergies.
80 hours = six 13-hour shifts with a little bit of staying late. It's hard work, but not insane. Most weeks are more like 60-70 hours. And it's a pretty interesting job that pays well.
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3. pay doctors to stop people from getting diabetes in the first place, instead of paying them to diagnose and treat it.
is impossible. Doctors can't control what people eat, nor how often they exercise.
You're talking about type 2 diabetes, which is a problem but almost never quickly results in an immediately life-threatening state. Type 1 diabetes can and does, but it's a much more difficult disease to manage.
Vomiting in your sleep does not result in aspiration unless you're passed out from drugs or alcohol. Ever had a single drop of water go down the wrong way? And that was just water - i.e., not chemically irritating in itself. Furthermore, while your kid may be allergic to eggs, throwing up a cupcake some hours after the fact isn't an allergic reaction.
With the extra (and useful) qualification that you don't have to have a legally bought CD in order to play the music.ASCAP and BMI don't care how you got it.
But if you already have ASCAP and BMI licenses, it's effectively free.
A company officer would have to have signed it after the submission by the prospective employee in order for it to be a valid agreement. If said officer was silly enough to have signed it without reviewing it and any modifications, well, that's their problem.
I don't think anyone would put Belarus in the category of "civilized states". It's a totalitarian state that's worse than Russia in many ways.
USA being the only exception
And Japan, which isn't western but is usually included in such comparisons.
similar to stopping a plane mid air forcing it to land
If you're in a country's airspace, you'd better believe they'll force that plane to land if they want you badly enough.
I'm in the Southeast. Water co-ops are pretty common here, although I suppose I should have said "semi-rural" there since many of them service very small towns ( 1000 population) and their surrounding areas.
Utilities once belonged to the people
Not in the US, they didn't. Aside from municipal water supplies (which arose largely because installing water and sewer systems involves ripping up all your streets, something that isn't going to work without local gov cooperation) and the US Government's hydroelectric power organizations, utilities are private. In many rural areas, water is provided by privately-owned co-ops.
I wonder why I bothered doing science.
You were suckered in. I saw the light and went into medicine. It's not a perfect job, and it's definitely not science, but it's interesting and it pays well.
No, no, no. No. What comes out of you is a function of your kidneys. Drinking distilled water as your only source of water is absolutely harmless. There are limits, of course, to how much your kidneys can concentrate or dilute your urine, but unless you are trying to kill yourself with water intoxication or have a disease, you'll be fine. You do need a certain electrolyte intake, but it's actually quite small. People who have electrolyte disturbances almost always have them because they have no kidney function, or they're taking drugs that alter kidney function, or they're intentionally taking electrolytes, or they're unable to feed themselves and are dehydrated.
aggressively all day, all evening, and still have enough power in the morning to last until noon
That's a phone that has to be charged every night during the week, because it can't do two full days' work on a single charge. Sure, my phone can easily do 48 hours or more on the weekend without a charge, but in the work week, it charges every night.
That's not the case.
Maybe not for you. For some of us, it definitely is. If it goes below 50% charge after a day of use, it will be dead before the end of the second day, and so you have to charge it every night.
Well, don't buy a smartphone. Get a RAZR, you can have that experience again.
The iPhone - and it really was the first in this category - got people to charge their phone every single night. Since then people have understood that part of the price you pay for having a smartphone instead of a RAZR (or one of the beasts that had a really long battery life - I had a dumpy looking Moto phone that could easily get ten days of standby if I didn't use it much) is that you have to charge it every night. As long as it gives a full 9-10 hours, most people don't care. If I can get 16 hours without a charge under heavy call/text use, I'm fine.
Why is it that doctors can't work normal 40 hour weeks? Just increase the supply to compensate...
It has to be covered 24/7, but the work load isn't evenly distributed over the hours. That's why. I go to work at 6:30 every morning except when I'm on vacation or post call. I'm almost never there at 3 AM. Call is how we do things because it's preferable to paying people to work night shifts in our situation.
Remember, most doctors are not hospital employees (and have no interest in becoming hospital employees). They don't get paid if they don't produce. I was called in at 3:45 the other morning for a potential bad situation - mother with twins, first had delivered, second was breech and stuck. I drove like a bat out of hell to the hospital and ran upstairs as fast as I could. When I got there, the OB/GYN had gotten baby #2 out safely. I turned around and went home. Neither I nor my group received a penny in compensation for that. While I'm glad both kids are fine, that's ultimately why doctors take call rather than shifts: nobody will pay us for our time, only for our services.
I'm an anesthesiologist, I know what residency is like, but the new rules for interns more or less demand that they work shifts. I had assumed the upper-levels had changed to match.
Ease up on the crack.
You always x-ray one joint above and below the injury. When your ankle is shattered, you might not notice the pain in your lower thigh, but that doesn't mean there's not a break.
I'm not convinced that this couldn't have been done FAR less expensively by a technician.
Liability coverage if they screw up. Plus, who wants to go to the insurance plan that doesn't pay for you to see a doctor? We tried that with HMO's, and people fled in droves. Sensibly or not, people want an MD to make the decisions.
You can't get a residency without an interview, if that makes you feel any better about it. However, there are bigger problems. First, interviews will weed out the ones who are so introverted that they can't carry half of a conversation, but it won't do anything for the glib assholes who have no trouble holding it together for a day of interviews. Second, individual programs have a significant interest in taking the strongest test-takers regardless of ability because programs are judged by the rate at which their graduates take and pass the specialty's board examinations.
The problem with reference letters, etc., is that a system that works primarily on references as opposed to test scores quickly becomes an old boys' club. The tests really do limit that aspect - while there is of course an advantage to going to Harvard med as opposed to a state school, it's actually fairly small when trying to get a residency, because everyone takes the same tests and can use them to demonstrate ability. I've encouraged premeds to aim for the top but not to waste their time with any other out-of-state schools for that very reason - unlike law school, where you go to med school is not very important for most medical careers (though if you want to work at NIH or CDC it is), so unless you're at one of the top 5 or so it's better to go to a state school to save money. You'll probably get a better class rank, too.
You'd be surprised how many things creep into charts based on lore and rumor. Asking over and over again helps keep down the cruft, especially with important things, like allergies.
80 hours = six 13-hour shifts with a little bit of staying late. It's hard work, but not insane. Most weeks are more like 60-70 hours. And it's a pretty interesting job that pays well.