If you told me three years ago Michigan would be my safe haven as a blue state in the civil war I wouldn’t have believed you.
Wait so you’re telling me this picture of Trump isn’t real and all his supporters aren’t super models?
People don’t understand focal length compression/distortion even though they can test it on their phones nowadays
The problem is none of these people have ever lost any real pounds and understand that changes things. More than anything it’s another indictment of how stupid and overweight this country is. Them: It’s a body double Me: He had to drop weight for the betterment of his life after a medical event. This is more because he’s been probably on a restrictive diet and not eating Wawa every day. Them: No, body double. That’s the only thing that makes sense. You sound stupid.
i watched unicorn riot/antifa livestreams from the protests during the summer of 2020 every single day for like 2 months straight. the cities/states/feds mobilized paramilitary forces that brought armored vehicles and automatic rifles. they were ready to kill hundreds if they “had to”. and like someone mentioned in the replies, there were also instances of people getting snatched off the street by plainclothes officers(?) and taken into unmarked vehicles
I was taking to someone that I know votes R and said “isn’t it crazy that a literal medical professional can tell you that you need an MRI and someone behind a screen 900 miles away can be like ‘lol no you doubt.”
I know its David vs Goliath but this is one of the reasons I quit full time medicine and started a healthtech AI company to try and combat this shit about 3-4 years ago. If anyone on the board has a lead on VC or a hospital/clinic that may want to use my software, Holla at ya boy.
I don’t mean to be an ass, but does your product do the same review a human doctor would do? Why is a computer program rubber stamping something a step up from the doctors?
So I'm doing it from the doctor/clinician side, not the insurance side. Its a huge time suck for those that actually practice medicine. Also I'm oversimplifying it a bit and will be happy to go into much more elaborate detail but this is one of the biggest problems out there for clinicians right now.
Tell me my prognosis in a haiku Too much shitposting You need to touch grass ASAP Fuck that. Post away
There isn't enough time in the day for doctors see patients, record the health stuff, and then review it later upon request. The patients also demand a personal interaction with their doctor. The overhead for them to remain profitable is too high. You could solve this by producing more doctors and nationalizing health care. Or you can spend billions of dollars to make a robot that makes decisions for you.
Almost like the bolded part would be a very very easy thing to do given that our political system is going to never grant M4A in our lifetime. I know a few medical schools have become tuition free, but this entirely artificial boundary that Med Schools adhere to to keep enrollments very low is fucking disgusting. My late MIL was a Biology professor and saw so many of her smart students struggle to get into Med Schools despite good grades and decent MCAT scores. I know Lyrtch has been beating this drum too given his background.
You also have to deal with keeping current ones in the current system instead of leaving. M4A might do that but the other way you do that is try to make the system less shitty (which is what I'm trying to do, albeit its a small piece of the system). I'm just trying to help doctors by having it pull from the chart and saying like "yo dawg, you need to make sure this is documented otherwise they are going to deny your claim and waste your time." Because they publish the rules but they don't publish all of it. Its very convoluted on purpose.
Residencies are funded by the government and are subject to the whims of lobbying. Opening more med school spots without increasing residencies creates more problems of newly minted doctors without the ability to further their training and eventually practice on their own. then there’s the continued commodification of healthcare providers and physicians are being turned into managers of mid-levels — which isn’t what they train to do. the whole system is fucked top to bottom.
I don't think I was implying this is a failure in one specific part of our system, naturally you'd have to have the resources (teachers, residency spots, etc) if we doubled the number of med students admitted in the US each year. My point is that this politically would be a lot easier to probably change than somehow dismantling privatized healthcare here.
Mind you Facebook participated in an effort by giving data to a group on Americans to help turn an election. Facebook should be banned as well if tik tok gets banned not to mention we could easily put restrictions in place to change how our data is used but that would fuck over a bunch of their donors so they won’t do the smartest or easiest option
Putting them in Gitmo with people's families who have died due to healthcare denials and letting whatever happens happens would be an ideal scenario
it would absolutely be easier to do a top down restructuring of healthcare in the US, i.e. single payer than any bottom up changes theres so many insane barriers built into the system
One of which is actually stifling innovation and “the American dream(TM)” by making people hesitant to quit jobs because of “health coverage” tied to employment. I could only imagine how many great actual ideas and ways to help people don’t happen. Oh and maybe even a few more good meaning people who want to go to politics but can’t overcome health coverage. Just the dumbest shit.
Might be true, but the billions of profit from the major healthcare insurance companies would lobby so hard it will never happen.
still think it's more likely that way vs any alternative, even if the former is still very unlikely the latter is lower.