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Bridge to Nowhere
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Re: Bridge to Nowhere
#92It may be a bridge to nowhere for the patient but it is a profit opportunity for hospital owners. You're just another input in their number go up paperclip maximizer - where your road leads beyond their number go up is not a concern for them.
In one sense your comment is accurate - hospitals exist to "do something". And yes, in the US the hospital us part of a for-profit health system. But your comment is not limited to hospitals. It's true for every business. If I sell an ice-cream my interest ends after you pay for it. Equally I'm not going to withhold ice-cream from overweight people - my job is to sell ice-cream. If the hospital was a non-profit, and…
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#93It may be a bridge to nowhere for the patient but it is a profit opportunity for hospital owners. You're just another input in their number go up paperclip maximizer - where your road leads beyond their number go up is not a concern for them.
In one sense your comment is accurate - hospitals exist to "do something". And yes, in the US the hospital us part of a for-profit health system. But your comment is not limited to hospitals. It's true for every business. If I sell an ice-cream my interest ends after you pay for it. Equally I'm not going to withhold ice-cream from overweight people - my job is to sell ice-cream. If the hospital was a non-profit, and…
> But your comment is not limited to hospitals. It's true for every business
Yes, the problem being wide-spread in no way diminishes it.
You can apply your logic to slavery and realize it works just as well. Look, everyone's buying and selling slaves, it's true for every business - it's somewhat trite to blame slavery, etc, etc.
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#94More or less, if you enter a hospital, you need a medical case manager. The case manager should be an equal or superior specialty to the treating physician. The case manager should have a medical power of attorney to make decisions concerning your care (not so much to make decisions, but to be allowed into the decision making process to advise you, and then to regulate the execution of the treating physician). In sho…
The last case manager I dealt with (Raymond Rupert) ended up getting banned from practicing medicine.[1] To this day, he still operates and is expanding his case management consultancy service. He even claims Google Canada as a client.[2] His MO is selling people on his "exclusive network" of service providers and getting people not to trust normal doctors. He then comes up with a bunch of fake services to bill peopl…
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#95This is a surgery I absolutely would not have. I would not bet a few healthy months to roll the dice on a few more healthy months against immediate disability for the rest of my short life.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it took me a couple of months to learn to walk and chew gum at the same time If I may ask, I am curious, how was this experience of not being able to do this and learning to do this again? We often overlook how complex doing such two things at the same time is because we master such skills quite early in life.
It was basically a joke, but the tumor was in the cerebellum, which controls balance (amongst other, much more important, things). I was in physical therapy for two months, and it was probably two years, before pretty much all traces of the effects were gone. Nowadays (almost 30 years later), it's as if it never happened. I did get a cool haircut from the whole thing. Very punk.
Long may you continue to have your health and happiness. Thank you very much for sharing your story.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was your original comment talking about ‘religious people’, or ‘American Christians who believe in demonic possession’? You seem to be shifting the subject to a favored target, rather than discussing the comment you originally replied to.
That’s the problem with HN comment threads: if you try to make a general point and use broad generalities, people will object and point out counterexamples to nit pick against those generalities. But, instead if you go into specifics, people will nit pick those specifics. You can’t win. It’s an inevitable part of arguing with software engineers who get paid to find the missing negative sign in 1M lines if code: you’r…
> practitioners’ general and typical inability to separate fantasy from reality.
i don't think that is proven, nor true. simply begging the question.
to hear you debate, it's as if you believe that generally anyone in the role of chaplain, minister, priest is obviously a schizophrenic nut job (general and typical inability to separate fantasy from reality). one of these days, i hope, you will find out that there are people, of all religions, that live for nothing except to help others. why insult them?
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Welcome to the enshittified google. It is becoming increasingly useless to find anything that's not recent and popular.
I’m making an effort to switch to Kagi this month; tried it?
I have used it for well over a year, despite being a stingy freeloader for many other things. I have never hit the usage limit.
Shopping results are terrible, but that is a good trade to have better technical results.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your conclusion does not seem to follow from the premises. > There's very little anyone can do Hence the validity of the "do nothing" option. > If you want to do anything else But you may want to do nothing. There are valid reasons for it. > So a surgery is basically a no brainer Non sequitur. Your context suggests that you think doing something is a good idea because you know of a case where it worked out. This is a…
> Hence the validity of the "do nothing" option. It's hard. If you knew you are doomed that would be a valid option. But you can't know that even though it's likely. And on a slim chance you are not doomed, choosing to do nothing is pretty much impossible unless you already wanted to die and suffer unitl then. As I said, usually you don't randomly find out about tumor in your brain. Usually you learn about it because…
> You don't make decisions in those situations based on some theoretical existential framework. You make them on practical grounds.
Do you actually have this much insight into how all human beings make decisions? Maybe we should nominate you for a Nobel in pshychology.
More seriously, your confident assertion about how everyone makes decisions is baseless. The whole point is to allow people to make their own decisions, and you are denying it based on nothing but the implication that you know how everyone thinks and what's best for everyone.
> You life for you isn't a statistic. It's singular.
And yet you seem oddly confident about how I would decide or what would be best for me to decide.
Re: Bridge to Nowhere
#100The title reminds me of the bridge outside of LA that is a 1 or 2 hour hike to a bridge to nowhere that you can bungee off of. Pretty cool!