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Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by nocman » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 5:44 PM UTC

sireat wrote: post #215

nocman wrote: post #208

A cousin of mine recently lost her life in a very short battle with cancer. She was only 41 years old -- both of her parents still living. In the past few years there have been a lot of deaths among my family and friends. Some of them were very old, some very young, and some in-between. I would like to encourage readers here to consider this. Your life here is temporary. Even if you are very healthy your whole life,…

Why become a Christian out of multitude of religions? And if one is to become Christian then which one (Catholic, Lutheran, etc etc)? I've read some Christian apologestics (Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, GK Chesteron, CS Lewis et al) and they spin a good yarn but obviously you can not reason your way into/out of religion. So why should one believe Jesus was the Real Thing and Brian was not ? One way I can see religion w…

"Why become a Christian out of multitude of religions?"

"So why should one believe Jesus was the Real Thing and Brian was not ?"

Those are fair questions. I would suggest that you read the book I recommended. It might answer those questions for you.

Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by mahyarm » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

idaniboy wrote: post #205

mahyarm wrote: post #138

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So how about a residency system that doesn't depend on medicare government funding? Or accepting foreign residency programs? I wouldn't think canadian, scandianvian, british, german, australlian, etc residencies and doctors should be considered invalid for example. From what I know, even being a Sweden trained doctor makes it hard to transfer into the USA and get a licence. Residents from what I know are not well pai…

The reason why foreign residency programs aren't considered valid in the US is quality control, from both competency and medico-legal standpoints. If you were CEO of a private practice or hospital in New York City, who would you hire? A grad straight out of a US residency or one out of Swedish residency? The safer bet is the one straight out of US residency for numerous reasons: you can more easily trust and call his…

As a CEO of a hospital that wants to make money I would hire the Swedish grad for less and give him a 4 month US legal medical mess class for a lot less in cost that wouldn't involve a doctor. Since I'm known as a hospital that accepts non-us residency people, I can save a lot of money until the market resolves this inefficiency.

Also there are the other 5 anglo countries, which will have no problems with english. Many of these UK, german, etc grads could also be people from the US originally, so there wont be english competency problems there. Many europeans also have excellent english on average, like germans and scandianvians. It would be miles ahead of the average non-west euro immigrant software engineer that is very common in the USA.

QC and skills wise, I don't have much worries from these top tier countries medical practices. Do you freak out if you have to go to a hospital in Sweden because the doctors may be bad!?

Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by qb45 » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 7:57 PM UTC

sireat wrote: post #215

nocman wrote: post #208

A cousin of mine recently lost her life in a very short battle with cancer. She was only 41 years old -- both of her parents still living. In the past few years there have been a lot of deaths among my family and friends. Some of them were very old, some very young, and some in-between. I would like to encourage readers here to consider this. Your life here is temporary. Even if you are very healthy your whole life,…

Why become a Christian out of multitude of religions? And if one is to become Christian then which one (Catholic, Lutheran, etc etc)? I've read some Christian apologestics (Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, GK Chesteron, CS Lewis et al) and they spin a good yarn but obviously you can not reason your way into/out of religion. So why should one believe Jesus was the Real Thing and Brian was not ? One way I can see religion w…

One way I can see religion working if there is a way to reconcile most of world's religions (that is they are all working to the same end just from different directions).

Second way would be the second coming. This would be even more effective. Why settle for some miracles 1970 years ago, when you could do real miracle stuff every once in a while to remind people that God is indeed something they should consider. Otherwise we get some questionable miracles like the gold plates from Mormons etc.

So if you believed that Christianity is the only religion you would be a Christian and if you believed it's the Egyptian mythology then you would believe in Seth and Osiris?

This doesn't really look like you feel any genuine need to believe in any religion; it looks like you expect "others" to provide you with verified, certified-correct worldview.

That's unfortunately a typical symptom of overdose on media and schooling.

You may read religious texts and if something sounds "right" stick to it. You may act on the world, observe it and discover its rules. You may strive to recognize others' influence on you and filter it critically. In any case, you have to work.

Only lemmings get free lunch.

Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by zo1 » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 7:59 PM UTC

Multics wrote: post #27

zo1 wrote: post #24

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As someone that is overly conscious about my own mortality, and fear of it. I can see it being much more preferable "in the moment" to be oblivious to such things awaiting us. And at times I really don't understand why people aren't afraid/concerned about their inevitable mortality. However, I wouldn't personally choose such obliviousness. I'd rather know, and perhaps plan for it, and do my best to mitigate it as far…

You should check out longecity.org, if the subject interests you, zo1. Edit: In particular, the forum! http://www.longecity.org/forum/

Thanks for the link, I'll definitely check it out!

Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by 1958 » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 8:21 PM UTC

chaostheory wrote: post #107

madaxe_again wrote: post #50

I don't have a brain tumour, but I have had, and am still having, an experience which has made me think seriously about my mortality. I'm 31. About three years ago I started having three/four day long bouts of total delirium, roasting fever, extreme nausea, can't even keep sips of water down when it happens - by day three or four, I'm usually too weak to move, totally dehydrated. Two years on, my GP is still going "c…

Since Steven has a child coming, I really hope that he had some life insurance.

I have found out through his family that he didn't ! So everything thing that is being donated is for the future of his baby . I too was hoping he had life insurance :-(

Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by crpatino » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 8:44 PM UTC

sytelus wrote: post #214

maxerickson wrote: post #142

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Is there some reason that hospitals can't fund the programs themselves? Or do they just choose not to? More usefully, what could be done to get hospitals to fund the programs? Some hospital systems have billions of net income, they can clearly afford to fund at least a few residencies.

Couldn't it be same incentive why we like interns in tech? In tech, we love internships and most top companies go out of their way to have attractive internship programmes. This allows you to (1) filter future hires much better than hour long interview (2) lot of less complicated stuff can be offloaded to them (3) well, yeah, cheap labor (4) much better cultural training (5) young energetic employees with passion to…

If consumers of IT products were given the right to potentially sue for every bug that resulted in adverse situations arising for them, the whole industry would collapse in less than a year.

Now, put yourself in the shoes of a company/NGO that arose to fill in the abandoned niche afterwards. Would you be willing to take in a junior employee and let it do unsupervised work? Would the affordability, cultural fitness or "passion" of said junior employee make a big factor in your decision?

Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by 1958 » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 9:04 PM UTC

danielweber wrote: post #110

chaostheory wrote: post #107

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Since Steven has a child coming, I really hope that he had some life insurance.

I hope I don't derail by telling everyone: if you have someone who depends on you, get life insurance.

Apart from his wife who was working as well ,he didn't have anyone anyone who depended on him . They found out they where going to have a baby until after the tumour.

Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by 1958 » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 9:59 PM UTC

chaostheory wrote: post #107

madaxe_again wrote: post #50

I don't have a brain tumour, but I have had, and am still having, an experience which has made me think seriously about my mortality. I'm 31. About three years ago I started having three/four day long bouts of total delirium, roasting fever, extreme nausea, can't even keep sips of water down when it happens - by day three or four, I'm usually too weak to move, totally dehydrated. Two years on, my GP is still going "c…

Since Steven has a child coming, I really hope that he had some life insurance.

To answer you question no Steven did not have life insurance ! So everything thing that is being donated is for the future of his baby . I too was hoping he had life insurance :-(

Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by NewDispAccount » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 1:51 AM UTC

sgt101 wrote: post #163

NewDispAccount wrote: post #122

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First, I'd like to say thank you for writing this. I'd also like to add a little for others who may be in a similar situation. Just to set the background, I'm in my mid-40's, was a responsible adult, and had a house and family, and worked as a programmer for 15 years. I was fairly typical as a programmer -- a bit overfocused, had an excellent memory, strong reading skills, etc... I wouldn't say I was a great programm…

have you seen a consultant neurologist? or a consultant virologist?

I've seen a neurologist who my GP thought highly of, but it quickly turned into probably the worst doctor's visit I ever had.

About ten minutes into the exam he told me that it was either depression, or sleep apnea, and that I was just looking for a way to get out of working.

I'll admit that the Part of it was my fault -- I was beyond exhaustion and not exactly on my best behavior. But I also had seen maybe eight different doctors before then, and, other than sleep apnea, had been misdiagnosed and mistreated for several things already. My GP didn't seem to believe that there was a real problem, and I was just falling apart physically, financially, and emotionally.

That's about where I gave up hope of getting useful medical help, and decided that I was just going to tough this thing out, and if it kills me then that's just how it goes sometimes... Not a smart choice, but that's where I was at the time.

Any way, that was then, this is now. Writing these posts has gotten me to think about how long this has been going on, and, now that I'm more clear-headed, it's time to start seeing doctors again and see if I can get this fixed.

Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by NewDispAccount » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 1:59 AM UTC

raelshark wrote: post #149

NewDispAccount wrote: post #122

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First, I'd like to say thank you for writing this. I'd also like to add a little for others who may be in a similar situation. Just to set the background, I'm in my mid-40's, was a responsible adult, and had a house and family, and worked as a programmer for 15 years. I was fairly typical as a programmer -- a bit overfocused, had an excellent memory, strong reading skills, etc... I wouldn't say I was a great programm…

I'm not trying to do that "diagnose you over the Internet" thing, but did any of your doctors ever mention or look into autonomic nervous system issues? Reason I ask is that what you describe is somewhat similar to the kind of cognitive impairment ("brain fog") and fatigue I experience with dysautonomia. Although it sounds like your symptoms are much more extreme, they're not inconsistent with what I've seen other pa…

Thank you, I'll find out more about dysautonomia, and get on with finding a solution to this thing.