They lie because it suits them. I'm not a clinic doctor; I'm an anesthesiologist. People lie to me. Why? I don't know. If there's anyone who really, absolutely, positively needs to know the truth, it's the guy who is about to pour a cocktail of drugs into your veins and put you into a medically induced coma while someone else carves you open. But they lie.
Why on earth would you want a doctor to try to memorize every drug interaction possible (which is both incredibly hard and really a pharmacist's job) when it can be easily searched for with databases that don't ever forget? Do you have any idea how many drugs there are?
It's bad storytelling. I strongly suspect that he expected to find out she was positive for benzodiazepines or opioids, if anything, which is why cocaine was irrelevant to her treatment.
Can't be detected past about three days. It was fresh. I don't know why this gentleman was given the great pulpit of the NYTimes to say he felt bad about when a nurse Googled a patient, but he wasn't looking at an ex-user of cocaine.
The doctor almost certainly looked at the form. But the form relates facts; it doesn't tell a story. Part of the process of making a diagnosis is getting people to talk about their problem as a story - it lets us know what the patient thinks is important and why they came, which may or may not have much to do with what is really wrong with them.
Do you pay your doctors tons of money? I seriously doubt it. I suspect you pay a government or an insurance company tons of money, depending on where you live.
Not to disagree with your broader point, but for those who are still young enough to be deciding on careers, it is worth noting that health care is a notable exception to the rule that moonlighting jobs pay less and are rare. A substantial number of people work multiple jobs.
There is a reason Americans always talk about the weather: we have so much of it. It will be -9 tonight in my home town, which is at about the same latitude as Tripoli.
Because if you treat with antibiotics, it will either resolve or rupture. Rupture has a high rate of complications including death, and if it resolves it may happen again. Best to get it out now.
So what? Intensive agriculture is more efficient at producing dense human populations than hunting and gathering is, but that doesn't mean that it's healthier.
For heaven's sake, why? Were they utterly daft? I mean, there were a lot of awful things about the Christian elementary schools my wife and I went to (hers Catholic, mine Protestant), but western culture is just swimming in references to Christianity, and at least we got exposed to that. You're blind to the most common source of allusions out there if you don't know at least something of the Bible.
If you're a Westerner, you really ought to spend more time getting to know the Bible before branching out. Christianity has been a major factor in Western Civ for nearly 2000 years, and there are a lot of references to it.
Deep frying turkeys is perfectly safe, provided you observe basic safety precautions. I'd try this, assuming I could find a reliable centrifugal fryer.
Libraries still exist. I used to make a twenty-minute bike ride to go to one, several times a week, before I got my driver's license (which was 1990). It didn't hurt that there was a sketchy neighborhood near it that would sell me Penthouse and Playboy when I was fourteen.
I used it with some friends as a shared space for discussing episodes of LOST while they were on. It was like private IRC with a shared document space. I liked it a lot, actually, except that its computational demands rapidly overpowered the netbooks we were running it on.
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They lie because it suits them. I'm not a clinic doctor; I'm an anesthesiologist. People lie to me. Why? I don't know. If there's anyone who really, absolutely, positively needs to know the truth, it's the guy who is about to pour a cocktail of drugs into your veins and put you into a medically induced coma while someone else carves you open. But they lie.
Why on earth would you want a doctor to try to memorize every drug interaction possible (which is both incredibly hard and really a pharmacist's job) when it can be easily searched for with databases that don't ever forget? Do you have any idea how many drugs there are?
It's bad storytelling. I strongly suspect that he expected to find out she was positive for benzodiazepines or opioids, if anything, which is why cocaine was irrelevant to her treatment.
Can't be detected past about three days. It was fresh. I don't know why this gentleman was given the great pulpit of the NYTimes to say he felt bad about when a nurse Googled a patient, but he wasn't looking at an ex-user of cocaine.
The doctor almost certainly looked at the form. But the form relates facts; it doesn't tell a story. Part of the process of making a diagnosis is getting people to talk about their problem as a story - it lets us know what the patient thinks is important and why they came, which may or may not have much to do with what is really wrong with them.
Do you pay your doctors tons of money? I seriously doubt it. I suspect you pay a government or an insurance company tons of money, depending on where you live.
MD here. They lie. They lie all the time. Usually not all that important, sometimes it is. We almost always know anyway.
Not to disagree with your broader point, but for those who are still young enough to be deciding on careers, it is worth noting that health care is a notable exception to the rule that moonlighting jobs pay less and are rare. A substantial number of people work multiple jobs.
My experience is that the British use weather to get a conversation started. Americans consider it a specific topic worthy of its own conversation.
There is a reason Americans always talk about the weather: we have so much of it. It will be -9 tonight in my home town, which is at about the same latitude as Tripoli.
I was in college in VA that year, lake on campus froze hard enough to walk across. Not something a lad from the Deep South was prepared to deal with.
Because if you treat with antibiotics, it will either resolve or rupture. Rupture has a high rate of complications including death, and if it resolves it may happen again. Best to get it out now.
Nope. Wrong. I'm an anesthesiologist, we do appendectomies on uninsured patients all the time.
The WHO says it is. Broken bones are diseases, too.
No, it's not. Appendicitis can be treated with antibiotics and hope, or cured with an appendectomy. Guess which one we do?
So what? Intensive agriculture is more efficient at producing dense human populations than hunting and gathering is, but that doesn't mean that it's healthier.
What's wrong with you? Exactly how much does someone have to take from you before they're literally stealing your life?
Why? His property was purchased with his money - something he had to trade his life to get. Try to steal part of my life, I'll take all of yours.
(which led to some controversy with some parents)
For heaven's sake, why? Were they utterly daft? I mean, there were a lot of awful things about the Christian elementary schools my wife and I went to (hers Catholic, mine Protestant), but western culture is just swimming in references to Christianity, and at least we got exposed to that. You're blind to the most common source of allusions out there if you don't know at least something of the Bible.
If you're a Westerner, you really ought to spend more time getting to know the Bible before branching out. Christianity has been a major factor in Western Civ for nearly 2000 years, and there are a lot of references to it.
Home-rendered lard rocks.
Deep frying turkeys is perfectly safe, provided you observe basic safety precautions. I'd try this, assuming I could find a reliable centrifugal fryer.
Libraries still exist. I used to make a twenty-minute bike ride to go to one, several times a week, before I got my driver's license (which was 1990). It didn't hurt that there was a sketchy neighborhood near it that would sell me Penthouse and Playboy when I was fourteen.
I used it with some friends as a shared space for discussing episodes of LOST while they were on. It was like private IRC with a shared document space. I liked it a lot, actually, except that its computational demands rapidly overpowered the netbooks we were running it on.
True, but that assumes anyone will sell one of those. Do they?