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I agree that this was a bit flippant (though accurate), but if you took the time to look through my posting history over the last nearly five years, you'd learn why I made this acc…

Going all in on the "unintelligible black box" model of health insurance, I see.

Since I can't respond to my own child comment as it was flagged, I'll just note that when I made it, this comment said only: The rest of us have to compete in a free market for our…

What an utterly contentless response (and no, you're not in a free market). Based on your other comments on this post, I would recommend you spend some time learning about the syst…

a profession as wealthy as medicine needs the taxpayer to fund its training is preposterous Most doctors already come from wealthy families (specifically, they have doctor parents)…

Healthcare is much closer to auto repair than software development. Sure, on a car that's running that you can't turn off, with parts you can't replace, a maintenance history you c…

This is manifestly not the case, and there are a large number of studies showing why this is true (many linked elsewhere in this thread). Most people do not have a good understandi…

you are basically accusing them of foolish behavior at best, fraud/unethical behavior at worst Given the conflict of interest in this article, I'd say that's the least of what the …

I'm sure he's proud to have his name on the only major trauma center in the US without a helipad due to NIMBY pressure.

The way many metabolic conditions work is that essential products are not synthesized, or toxic products are not cleared. These can cause unrecoverable damage within hours or days …

We (for the most part) intrinsically understand the internal nature of naturally generated thoughts, even spontaneous ones. If someone played a recording of your own speech, would …

This is a reasonable statement to want to make, but (with a vanishingly small number of exceptions), suicide is not a choice. It's the result of depression combined with loss of in…

A favorite of mine from medical school... "two drinks a day!" Oh yeah? What do you usually drink? "A box of wine and a handle of whiskey."

Residents barely have time to eat (we called it "low food security"), let alone consider their mental health. I've actually heard it vocalized as a strategy for hospital administra…

Easily, the single most vocal group about piece work payments are the medical doctors I've talked to. To be fair, there are unusual incentives in place here -- depending on the spe…

Re imaging, throw away the community hospital crap that IBM's been peddling. We need quality imaging, with diagnostics, with followup data, from major quaternary care research cent…

Run some numbers on outcome-based repayment -- nighthawking no longer makes sense for the hospitals.

No, it would not work. Neither fMRI or "bulk EEG data" (whatever that is) reproduces brain activity patterns for even the most basic ideation, I have no idea why you would think th…

That is an extreme and unfortunate example (and there is an entire additional set of issues around bedside manner and how our current training and practice environments select agai…

There's definitely not enough information in the article to draw that conclusion. Moreover, the description is entirely compatible with a disassociative episode. You have some pret…

I'm on my way out, so this'll be quick, but a few other restrictions on supply: * There can notionally only be as many fill-able residencies as there are graduating medical student…

And I can tell you that quality of care poor get is the same as rich ones get. That's because you're an anesthesiologist, and you see the acute cases which have already been admitt…

I would highly recommend that anyone who finds this interesting read the book by Rokeach (there's a good, cheap edition from NYRB that I buy a lot of people as a gift) -- goes into…

This is a poorly considered view of experimental treatments. Particularly in the case of aid work, experimentation on the patient population is not only unethical in every formaliz…

I do partially agree with you, but it's at least worth noting that people in the medical field are much more likely to have the capacity to genuinely consent to the receipt of expe…