"Stabilizing" is often all that is needed; there are people whose needs aren't addressed by this (cancer patients are probably the largest group, because their treatment isn't "stabilizing" and isn't cheap), but the vast majority of people who are admitted to the hospital have a limited condition that can be fixed - you can't ignore the guy who is having a heart attack, or appendicitis, or a broken leg.
Saw a parallel issue a while back... the Atlantic had a feature showing some images of the US in the 70's. Lots of pollution porn, but the part that gets left out is... that's what working steel towns look like. (Check out the third image.) As dirty as they were, they were cleaner than the places where steel is being made in China today. I'd rather live in a cleaner country... but then again I'm not an average guy who's working for peanuts because all the manufacturing jobs are gone.
Remember not having to support your mother while trying to raise your own family because he didn't leave anything to her. It's not as though there's no benefit to all that work.
The typical American used to live, work, and die in the community... that they and their ancestors were born and died in.
What Americans are these? Because - last I checked - this is a country composed almost entirely of immigrants and their descendants. None of my family has ever died in the town they were born in, and it's often been a different state. Maybe in parts of New England or the tidewater South this happens, but not for most of us.
Don't be silly. Slavery was very productive; that was why it proliferated. It was evil, but it worked. The USA beat the CSA because the USA had better natural resources, the factories necessary to turn those resources into weapons, and the will to bring them to bear. The USA turned out enough food to feed its workers, but there were hotbeds of Confederate sympathizers in New York and London because the cotton supplies had been cut off - the CSA had specialized on non-food crops. Even today, cotton is a major product of the South.
For some fields, this is no doubt true, but a lot of fields have relatively fixed productivity per hour, so that output directly correlates with hours worked. This applies to gas station cashiers, but it also applies to concert pianists and ICU nurses.
Who gives less than 30 days' notice of a vacation? I'm in an odd position, being in a partnership where only two of the eleven can be off at any time, but I schedule my vacation nine to twelve months in advance and make arrangements for what I'm going to do with it after the fact. It's a little odd, at first, when you're used to just two or three months' notice, but it also means that you have an ironclad argument for why you need that particular week off.
Yes, but those as a retrospective... they all assume that their lives would have had the same overall trajectory if they hadn't worked so hard or delayed their own gratification. It's entirely possible that, had they not worked so hard, they would never have fulfilled even the small fraction of their dreams that they did. How many successful entrepreneurs, while dying, wish that they had kept working for someone else?
What, pediatric surgery? Yeah, you see some neat stuff... and then you've seen it all, and it's just another surgery job with bad hours, declining reimbursement, and endless paperwork.
Or a fecalith, or mechanical kink. Lymphoid hyperplasia is a frequent culprit, but the treatment for appendicitis is surgical excision. The antibiotics are too late once you have symptomatic appendicitis, because the blockage is due not to bacteria in the appendix but to cell proliferation (in response to bacteria that may be in either the colon or the appendix) that will not resolve with mere killing of the bacteria that caused it. Meanwhile, the bacteria in the appendiceal lumen are multiplying rapidly, and will eventually produce pressure necrosis of a portion of the appendiceal wall and rupture.
Appendicitis is caused by a blocked appendix, not one full of bacteria. And rupture leads to gut bacteria running loose in the abdomen, which is a Bad Thing.
I have reread Tolkien once or twice. I recommend a policy of skipping all songs and poems out of hand. Every time you get bored, read only a few lines from each page until you realize that you've hit the meat of the action or you've switched to a new scene.
Not only does it take a lot less time, it's actually a reasonably entertaining story.
I drank stuff purchased for me by older friends in my dorm room. I could have done the same thing in an apartment - indeed, I did just that during the summer. We'd invite people over and have a party. As long as you know to keep the noise inside after 10, the neighbors won't bother you.
Go look at the weather in The rest of the country (say, Mombasa) before you get high and mighty. Nairobi is the capital because it had a climate that Europeans found comfortable when they were looking for a place to put their administration.
Urgent care is usually a terrible place to go. Too many nurse practitioners supervised by too few MDs, many of whom are not all that great on their own and who are doubly bad when relying on someone else's observations.
Factually incorrect. Someone who has graduated from a US medical school with an MD does have to do one year of postgraduate training before entering practice. At that point they can apply for (and obtain) an unrestricted medical license that will allow them to do neurosurgery, should they choose. Hospitals require residency training before they will allow someone to practice in their facilities, and malpractice insurers will not cover you for something outside your training, but in the comfort of his own office and on his own nickel a licensed physician can legally do anything that the patient consents to.
Furthermore, the apprenticeship involves a pretty significant educational component. Residency programs get suspended when graduates can't pass the specialty board examinations (which, as noted above, are not actually required to practice at most hospitals).
I was astonished at how few of my classmates knew how to competently write something as simple as a research paper.
Most people can't write at all. I wrote some stuff as a high school senior and college freshman than now makes me recoil in horror, but at least it's reasonably clear and grammatically correct. They invited me to be one of the writing coaches for the next batch of freshmen. I declined. A friend took the bait, though, and she showed me some of the piles of shit that people wrote - at a fairly selective university. Amazing.
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"Stabilizing" is often all that is needed; there are people whose needs aren't addressed by this (cancer patients are probably the largest group, because their treatment isn't "stabilizing" and isn't cheap), but the vast majority of people who are admitted to the hospital have a limited condition that can be fixed - you can't ignore the guy who is having a heart attack, or appendicitis, or a broken leg.
Saw a parallel issue a while back... the Atlantic had a feature showing some images of the US in the 70's. Lots of pollution porn, but the part that gets left out is... that's what working steel towns look like. (Check out the third image.) As dirty as they were, they were cleaner than the places where steel is being made in China today. I'd rather live in a cleaner country... but then again I'm not an average guy who's working for peanuts because all the manufacturing jobs are gone.
once treatment starts the doctors don't have any clue if you can pay or not
Actually, we do. But the fastest way to get a non-paying patient out of the hospital is to treat them, so they get treatment.
Remember not having to support your mother while trying to raise your own family because he didn't leave anything to her. It's not as though there's no benefit to all that work.
The typical American used to live, work, and die in the community... that they and their ancestors were born and died in.
What Americans are these? Because - last I checked - this is a country composed almost entirely of immigrants and their descendants. None of my family has ever died in the town they were born in, and it's often been a different state. Maybe in parts of New England or the tidewater South this happens, but not for most of us.
Private universities used to be a lot cheaper, too, so it's not just state subsidies.
Much like rein vs reign.
Standard path residency is 4 years. Med school is 4. What are your other 5? (I'm an anesthesiologist.)
Don't be silly. Slavery was very productive; that was why it proliferated. It was evil, but it worked. The USA beat the CSA because the USA had better natural resources, the factories necessary to turn those resources into weapons, and the will to bring them to bear. The USA turned out enough food to feed its workers, but there were hotbeds of Confederate sympathizers in New York and London because the cotton supplies had been cut off - the CSA had specialized on non-food crops. Even today, cotton is a major product of the South.
For some fields, this is no doubt true, but a lot of fields have relatively fixed productivity per hour, so that output directly correlates with hours worked. This applies to gas station cashiers, but it also applies to concert pianists and ICU nurses.
Who gives less than 30 days' notice of a vacation? I'm in an odd position, being in a partnership where only two of the eleven can be off at any time, but I schedule my vacation nine to twelve months in advance and make arrangements for what I'm going to do with it after the fact. It's a little odd, at first, when you're used to just two or three months' notice, but it also means that you have an ironclad argument for why you need that particular week off.
I'm going to assume that you missed that only because you were busy banging each others' brains out after leaving around midnight. Otherwise, wtf?
the US is STILL sitting on more natural resources than just about any other country on earth
Shh... don't let them know. Nope, nothing here but the Gobi Desert.
Where do you think the money to pay for them will come from?
Yes, but those as a retrospective... they all assume that their lives would have had the same overall trajectory if they hadn't worked so hard or delayed their own gratification. It's entirely possible that, had they not worked so hard, they would never have fulfilled even the small fraction of their dreams that they did. How many successful entrepreneurs, while dying, wish that they had kept working for someone else?
What, pediatric surgery? Yeah, you see some neat stuff... and then you've seen it all, and it's just another surgery job with bad hours, declining reimbursement, and endless paperwork.
Or a fecalith, or mechanical kink. Lymphoid hyperplasia is a frequent culprit, but the treatment for appendicitis is surgical excision. The antibiotics are too late once you have symptomatic appendicitis, because the blockage is due not to bacteria in the appendix but to cell proliferation (in response to bacteria that may be in either the colon or the appendix) that will not resolve with mere killing of the bacteria that caused it. Meanwhile, the bacteria in the appendiceal lumen are multiplying rapidly, and will eventually produce pressure necrosis of a portion of the appendiceal wall and rupture.
Appendicitis is caused by a blocked appendix, not one full of bacteria. And rupture leads to gut bacteria running loose in the abdomen, which is a Bad Thing.
I have reread Tolkien once or twice. I recommend a policy of skipping all songs and poems out of hand. Every time you get bored, read only a few lines from each page until you realize that you've hit the meat of the action or you've switched to a new scene.
Not only does it take a lot less time, it's actually a reasonably entertaining story.
Yes, but I always wondered why they left out the scene that explains the entire name of the book/movie.
I drank stuff purchased for me by older friends in my dorm room. I could have done the same thing in an apartment - indeed, I did just that during the summer. We'd invite people over and have a party. As long as you know to keep the noise inside after 10, the neighbors won't bother you.
Go look at the weather in The rest of the country (say, Mombasa) before you get high and mighty. Nairobi is the capital because it had a climate that Europeans found comfortable when they were looking for a place to put their administration.
Urgent care is usually a terrible place to go. Too many nurse practitioners supervised by too few MDs, many of whom are not all that great on their own and who are doubly bad when relying on someone else's observations.
Factually incorrect. Someone who has graduated from a US medical school with an MD does have to do one year of postgraduate training before entering practice. At that point they can apply for (and obtain) an unrestricted medical license that will allow them to do neurosurgery, should they choose. Hospitals require residency training before they will allow someone to practice in their facilities, and malpractice insurers will not cover you for something outside your training, but in the comfort of his own office and on his own nickel a licensed physician can legally do anything that the patient consents to.
Furthermore, the apprenticeship involves a pretty significant educational component. Residency programs get suspended when graduates can't pass the specialty board examinations (which, as noted above, are not actually required to practice at most hospitals).
I was astonished at how few of my classmates knew how to competently write something as simple as a research paper.
Most people can't write at all. I wrote some stuff as a high school senior and college freshman than now makes me recoil in horror, but at least it's reasonably clear and grammatically correct. They invited me to be one of the writing coaches for the next batch of freshmen. I declined. A friend took the bait, though, and she showed me some of the piles of shit that people wrote - at a fairly selective university. Amazing.