I don't think I've had a particularly bad doctor, at least in my memory. Though my parents have told me that the guy who treated me when I was really young was terrible. That may be the only time, honestly.
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Yeah. It is not easy to be or even study for.
Say well over 90% if not higher are good at their job as doctors. Personally wise though I have no idea though it is most likely much lower. Depends on what field they are as a doctor. Never had a bad doctor either just one was usual but I really did not care never even said anything about it. Mean really do not care about people's personal taste no matter what they do as a job.
Say well over 90% if not higher are good at their job as doctors. Personally wise though I have no idea though it is most likely much lower. Depends on what field they are as a doctor. Never had a bad doctor either just one was usual but I really did not care never even said anything about it. Mean really do not care about people's personal taste no matter what they do as a job.
I am surprised the year is almost over. Seems like the more older you get the quicker the days, months, or years go.
Indeed. It doesn’t seem that long ago it was the start of 2025. Or even 2000!
It would be interesting to figure out which year or even decade where things changed the most with technology!
Even more so to see it but that would be impossible.
Personally I’d say when the internet was born, or when it became available to me.
That was a big change. Then when smartphones became widespread. How we became connected in a new way.
Most likely. It might be when corporations and companies focused away from TVs to what mostly everyone has and most part uses everyday. Not sure of exact year but like 2006. Maybe not even that year exactly. Most a little earlier.
In what way for you? For Thanksgiving, my brother is coming out to visit on the 25th as a surprise for my boys who adore their uncle like crazy. We did not tell them so it’s a complete surprise. They’ll be so excited
My brother lives about 1400 miles from me.Christmas will be fun. It always is. We start here at my mom n dads in the AM and then go up north to my in-laws who are about 1.5/2hrs away from us. We stay there for a few days and take the boys up in the Sangre de Cristo mountains for big snow sledding and tubing
The day after or sometimes on Christmas Day (One of my favorite holiday traditions for our family - lots of fun).
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I know some private practice GPs who still make house calls from time to time but it is extremely rare in privatized HMO or govt run healthcare which is more an expression of bean counters finding more efficient ways (not necessarily better ways) to provide care. I still see home visit healthcare as an option in some PPOs.
I believe Doctors make house calls when needed in the UK. But then our health service is very different to most.
I would be dead or a vegetable without the docs in my life. It can be a very thankless, high risk (in many ways from exposures to financial ruin) and stressful job. I asked my mom what the worst day as an anesthesia provider was for her and she said it was when she had a baby boy in for surgery with a congenital heart deformation pass away on her. She tried and did everything she could do to keep this little boy alive but his little heart just couldn’t keep going. That was really hard for her. She said he reminded her of me - very happy baby. She stopped doing little babies or kids for a long time after that. It took about a decade for her to heal from that trauma of losing that little boy and start doing children again. That’s part of what I mean - the invisible costs. Not only the family carries the emotional burden of poor outcomes regardless of why they occurred. The care team feels and carries that as well.
Being an internal medicine doc is not for everyone.
Really, there will always be situations where home healthcare/visits still happen. How else would we get care to home bound elderly folks for example. The builders of the medical system will always try and pivot away because it’s high cost and low efficiency and muddies up their machine but a human visit is the only way to provide care to a population like that. In the states since we pay for our insurance from our paycheck vs our taxes, HMO structure is very common here and is rigid/doesn’t flex much. PPO is a bit more flexible in that it allows you to go out of network to private practices outside of network at a premium but who may provide that home-service where as the HMO or in network PPO may not offer it.
Regardless, by design it is rare but you can still find in-home services.
I do not understand the mindset of the sort of stupid sniggering little gits who stick chewing gum, or tightly wedged tissues, (as I saw today, to my considerable annoyance) into the provided usb slots on a public bus.
Feeling quite sentimental, for two reasons. We had our absolutely spectacular big band concert last night, which was a huge success. So that already made yesterday very special. But what made it really special for me was that my very best friend, who graduated last year, came up to see it. We hung out together afterwards (with a few other friends) until the crack of dawn. I just can’t tell you how nice it was to have him in my life again this weekend. He has this presence that no one else does. We “get” each other on so many different levels. He leaves this evening, so hoping to see him one more time today. Either way, I’m planning to visit him next summer most likely. He’s in grad school and thoroughly enjoying it, and I’m very happy for him. Anyway, yesterday/the early hours of this morning was the best day ever.
I suspect they are the same vermin who like to toss their fast food wrappers out the window as they drive along.
However I will confess to have never seen a USB slot on a bus. I’m not sure it had been invented last time I was on a bus.
Lately I've been thinking about how my views on things have changed a lot in light of things that have happened this year. I am definitely not the same person in terms of what I think and believe compared to a year ago.
The hotel company I booked for Minneapolis in February just canceled my reservation, due to "licensing issues with Marriott." UNBELIEVABLE. Absolutely unbelievable. What the hell. That's all I can say. Hope I can get a refund but I booked through Expedia so I'm rolling the dice on that. Flights are non-refundable because I booked in Economy so this trip may just be a complete loss and I will be out the total cost of the trip. I hope that doesn't happen but it's not out of the question. I have insurance on the trip but I kind of doubt this would be a covered thing.
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I am not joking but I seen someone who was stopped at a traffic light once open their door and dump tons of trash out of their car on the street like it was nothing.
Scum of the earth. I live in the countryside and have driven down a lane here and seen all sorts of things dumped. Like TV boxes. The local tip is free to use and only 4 miles away. Or cut it up and put it in your recycling bin (also emptied for free).
Yeah in other parts here, never seen it around this area, tons of tires dumped.
I do remember a few years ago after a natural disaster when we were waiting in line for just simple stuff from military, most likely not exactly, still they helped plus official help. Even if not official can help I know which is sometimes what it takes to fully recover after any mother nature natural disaster depending on how harsh the disaster was. It was just for bottled water and food. The thing is a lot of places lost even water after. That has never happen before.
My point is there was 2 lines of cars going into store parking lot that was now a temporarily Emergency Relief like center, it really surprised me too, when we were waiting in line a car that was suppose to wait because the car before it had already went but they instead cut in line I guess you could say. We realize it instantly but it did not bother us. Not worth getting stabbed or shot over. Even though highly doubt that would of happened because of the person and other people in the car did not seem like that. Still you never know. Now to the point the car behind us, both people in it driver and passenger obviously saw it too. The lady passenger out of that car got out and started yelling at the car that cut us in line. She actually stood in front of the car too. While the driver kept yelling to at them from their car and beeping the horn at them. I was in shock and very surprised. No point in it in my opinion. Still not going to change anything. It was simple to see how many people and who they were in the car who cut in line with the trunk open a few minutes later. Anyone could of easily posted it online if they wanted to. Do not think that ever happen. Not worth it or anyone's energy. Just thought it was interesting and strange. Still wonder everyday why would random people do that so easily for just something like that ? We even said after the lady got out and stood in front of the car to not worry about it.
My point is there was 2 lines of cars going into store parking lot that was now a temporarily Emergency Relief like center, it really surprised me too, when we were waiting in line a car that was suppose to wait because the car before it had already went but they instead cut in line I guess you could say. We realize it instantly but it did not bother us. Not worth getting stabbed or shot over. Even though highly doubt that would of happened because of the person and other people in the car did not seem like that. Still you never know. Now to the point the car behind us, both people in it driver and passenger obviously saw it too. The lady passenger out of that car got out and started yelling at the car that cut us in line.
She actually stood in front of the car too. While the driver kept yelling to at them from their car and beeping the horn at them. I was in shock and very surprised. No point in it in my opinion. Still not going to change anything. It was simple to see how many people and who they were in the car who cut in line with the trunk open a few minutes later. Anyone could of easily posted it online if they wanted to. Do not think that ever happen. Not worth it or anyone's energy. Just thought it was interesting and strange. Still wonder everyday why would random people do that so easily for just something like that ? We even said after the lady got out and stood in front of the car to not worry about it.
I booked through Expedia because they had a deal to bundle flight/hotel. That's the only reason, really. I just wanted to save a bit of money, but of course beggars can't be choosers.