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Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by sytelus » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 2:03 AM UTC

crpatino wrote: post #226

sytelus wrote: post #214

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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…

We obviously don't give wheels to interns and all go on vacation. Initially interns gets work that is fairly low risk to your business. You observe their quality and evolution and gradually give them work that has higher stacks. Same for residents, I would think they would get work that is at Nurse+ level initially, then may be they start as helping hand in operating rooms and so on. As you see they are reliable and consistent, you increase your risk tolerance. Although tech industry don't get as many law suits I think they face much higher financial consequences for screwing up. Imagine Facebook intern bringing down a service because of an error. That would be equivalent of many lawsuits in terms of loss of revenue.

Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by sunnybg » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 2:49 PM UTC

NewDispAccount wrote: post #122

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…

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…

My story is very similar to yours. Seeing a sleep doctor I was diagnosed with Idiopathic Hypersomnia, then later Narcolepsy.

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Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by crpatino » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 6:30 PM UTC

sytelus wrote: post #231

crpatino wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

We obviously don't give wheels to interns and all go on vacation. Initially interns gets work that is fairly low risk to your business. You observe their quality and evolution and gradually give them work that has higher stacks. Same for residents, I would think they would get work that is at Nurse+ level initially, then may be they start as helping hand in operating rooms and so on. As you see they are reliable and…

> Although tech industry don't get as many law suits I think they face much higher financial consequences for screwing up.

Agreed on that, though there is an upper limit on that, you cannot lose more revenue than you make over the time it takes to resolve the incident.

On the other hand, doctors can be assigned punitive charges (is the term correct?) well beyond the "objective" loss of the patient. That kind of stuff can bankrupt health care practitioners... that's why they have insurance AND legal departments.

Maybe it is just the perception of risk, but I think that explains why there's much more caution around it.

Another data point. Medical schools in US accept only people that has successfully completed an undergraduate degree with transferable skills. In many countries, you can enter medical school after highschool (though the degree takes more years of study than your standard 4 year bachelors).

Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks

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Post by sgt101 » Tue, Dec 09, 2014, 9:53 PM UTC

NewDispAccount wrote: post #229

sgt101 wrote: post #163

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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 dif…

I worry for you, and I hope you get to see people who do the right tests and scans and help you.