American medicine has a tendency to pay for things that are fantastically expensive, but aren’t really what the patient actually needs. I found this blog post about this phenomenon a few years ago:
Seems like this was revived via the second-chance system. I noticed it on the front page (1-30) this morning, but when I looked ~two hours later it was #447.
I've sorta followed this doctor's posts for a while. He has some good insights on the deterioration of the medical profession, and its capture by big business. I particularly appreciated his post on the deterioration of the competency of surgeons.
A lot of the comments below seem to not want to acknowledge that the dissidents against the status quo might be more correct in their philosophy for making the most of our lives.
Russia was supposed to rapidly collapse after the sanctions were applied ~2.5 years ago. I think vastly more damage has been done to Britain and the EU’s economies.
I read that Russia has gotten most of the businesses that were abandoned going again.
> This also applies to shorter sentences. Even these can completely turn an offender’s life upside down. You can lose your job, home and social network. And you rarely become a better person during a short stay in jail.
I had a few experiences helping people who were trapped or harmed by Arizona's criminal justice system. I eventually decided Arizona's jails and prisons are make-work programs to remove people from the labor supply.
The second one was about the passenger who remembered me from the night she got the 'catch and release' treatment. Her second taxi trip was almost 2 years after her first trip.
It takes about 7 days of confinement before people begin to develop PTSD...
> 1. Yes, the COVID treatments we're using today are vaccines.
There were efforts to figure out how to treat SARS-CoV-2 with existing safe medications, but these efforts were suppressed.
In the early days Dr. Zelenko treated his obviously-COVID patients with hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and azithromycin. His logic was ‘why let the patient deteriorate while we wait for the test to come back, when we can just start treating now?’ Most of his patients made a full recovery.
Eventually some scam-treatments got approved - remdesivir (“run, death is near”) and… paxlovid were two ineffective treatments.
My introduction to Hallelujah was via Malcolm Gladwell's podcast. A good portion of Season 1, Episode 7 (2016) was dedicated to the evolution of Leonard Cohen's song from 'forgotten B-side track' to the song that is commonly known and covered today.
The author of this submission mentions this podcast:
> On his podcast, Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell presents his theory on two types of artists: conceptual innovators and experimental innovators. Conceptual innovators create their best work early on in their careers.
I have an old CO detector in the hallway. I think fire departments have the ability to test these to make sure they still work, but I haven't done this yet.
We don't have any more ability to test a CO detector than you! Replace the batteries, press the test button and/or buy a new unit if the old one fails. Please don't call 911 unless you have an actual emergency.
> We don't have any more ability to test a CO detector than you!
I'm sure you're technically correct.
But if you want to, then it's easy to test CO detectors. Industries do it all the time. You just buy spray cans with known CO concentrations ("bump gas") and check that they go off when sprayed.
> Please don't call 911 unless you have an actual emergency.
Sure. But if the city decides to prioritize fire safety, then CO detector testing would be a good preventative measure that can be offered to the local residents.
Good CO safety is more than just the detector working. It's also about placement in the room, how many in each apartment/building, etc.
On top of that, the more the fire department interacts with the local residents, the more they can educate them about all kinds of fire safety matters (do you have a fire blanket in easy reach in the kitchen when cooking with oils?).
It also provides a relaxed way of fixing fire hazards (please don't stack unused furniture in front of the fire exit).
The blog post seems to indicate the problem is systemic in the criminal justice system's attempts to integrate Science into its rulings:
> Once convicted, however, defendants in cases of faulty science run up against an anti-scientific defect in the system.
> Legal principles dictate a certain deference to the trial court’s decision. ... the court system would be hopelessly bogged down ... if the losers were entitled to endless rehearings of the facts. With scientific and medical questions, however, it means a reversal of the logic by which science moves.
(note to self: "... there are
four primary facets or canons (i.e., rules or
principles that guide a field of study) that define
the scientific method. They are empiricism,
determinism, parsimony, and testability." https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/469...
Interesting article, thanks. This is about the legal aspects of Shaken Baby Syndrome, and how Robert Roberson's was sentenced to death in Texas on the basis of now-obsolete science.
It's almost impossible for the medical profession to admit that mistakes were made, especially when the mistake takes on a life of its own. I guess the judicial system has a similar problem.
Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law” (hcrenewal.blogspot.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728864
I had lots of experiences with people who weren’t helped by the money that was spent on their behalf.