This might depend on the country for EU. In France especially if you're an adult, getting an appointment for a diagnosis is either extremely long (public health sector delays regularly exceed one year), very expensive (over a 100€ out-of-pocket) or downright impossible (if you're in a big city you're fine, some places don't have anyone available at all). Sometimes it's a combination of those (yay).
And then if you're getting medicated, another whole world of fun begins (restricted prescriptions, shortages, etc)
You're talking about Paris here, not France. Even 'big' cities like Rennes or Nantes I never had to wait more than a week or two, and in the small city I live in I usually get appointments within a week (but I'm in a high QOL area so we might have a large concentration of specialists), and never out of pocket. But yes, in some areas you will have to drive up to two hours before finding a specialist.
Hey this is not my experience. Getting an appointment for my daughter - in France - was a few weeks wait. But also the whole diagnostic was around 500€, barely touched by the Sécurité Sociale and totally reimbursed by the insurance (mutuelle). This was in a minor city.
My understanding is that you typically pay something like this in the US for a specialist visit even if you have insurance, especially if you haven't already paid the year's deductibles.
Maybe it is policy. If you have three experts in the field and you redact the details for two of the interviews taken, you can’t work it out that Bob was one of the two. Granted, they borked the redaction here.
Same policy that "redacted" the brand of the SD card, even though anyone that would be able to do anything with that information would immediately recognize it as a SanDisk.
It has more to do with the American food supply than anything else. The obesity rate skyrocketed as we started to consume food-like substances instead of food.
Strip out all the signals that let the body know it has enough, and it is easier to overeat.
Often leadership doesn’t speak to the lowly plebs, or if they do, they don’t see the problem the same way.
I’ve worked at a company where customer service costs were higher than the contribution margin. The solution from leadership was to turn off the phones. If they can’t call in, then no one needs to be paid to answer calls.
I asked the VP how customers who need help now (appointments were involved) could get help? Well they could email in and wait for a response.
Shockingly, customer lifetime value dropped like a rock. So their solution was to lock every new customer into a hidden subscription plan that had a cancellation fee of 2-4x of one appointment. Then they had to walk that back when they had too many chargebacks.
The company was later bought out. Only people in the earliest of rounds made money from their equity. The CEO went on to be the CEO of the acquiring company.
The people deciding on the decision were will insulated from dealing with the consequences of that decision.
One thing that's missing: a single whisper about "hey guys, maybe trashing the xbox/windows/clippy business is not a wise thing to do, it's not too late to change course tho".
There are companies where employees have no effective voice. Maybe Microsoft is such a company, I don't know, I've never worked there. But their employees do make their voice heard by others, if no one else - just not on every topic that matters. And that's my point.
I’m pretty sure the others are suggesting that you don’t generate the word list through coding but when you encounter words you don’t know. What helps us remember is context (“I saw that in the Doctor Who episode where the big bad is-“) where a word list doesn’t give that context.
Yes, you can crank through and memorize things without context. It is more painful and less effective overall.
