“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Exodus 23:9 (NIV)”
I hope you don’t call yourself a Christian.
“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Exodus 23:9 (NIV)”
I hope you don’t call yourself a Christian.
We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I’d rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere
Oof, yeah. It’ll be time to break out my N95s again
Anticipation of surge? We’re already on the downslope of a recent tiny surge up here in the Boston area:
Ok, that was subtle. Well-played and thanks for explaining
Yes, but that’s different from subjective evidence and I think that’s part of the problem. There’s a difference between somatic symptoms and subjective evidence.
We differentiate between the two all the time without explicitly identifying it as such. “Patient says the feel a lot better this morning” vs. “patient says they still feel rotten” is valid subjective evidence that we really do take under consideration when evaluating treatment response.
Onset, duration, aggravating and alleviating factors, and consistency of reported symptoms are all things that distinguish evidentiary subjective reports from somatic ones. I’ve walked psychotic patients through things that were distressing to them that I knew were somatic. And I’ve caught “real” things where the patient subjective report was really the only indication we had. It IS possible to differentiate.
Granted, this demands more time than the corporations we work for would like to permit us to spend with our patients. Which is a huge part of the problem that we should all be protesting.
The problem is the complete dismissal of subjective evidence as being a valid form of evidence. We have deified objective evidence to the point of hubris, denying the existence of anything that doesn’t show up easily using our current technology. In my experience, it’s less often gaslighting and more often an embarrassing lack of epistemological humility and a pretense that we are have somehow reached the pinnacle of medical technology already and have nothing left to learn.
We’re here to treat patients, not test results. If a patient is reporting that they are experiencing distressing symptoms or that something is making them feel better or worse, they deserve to be taken at their word. Ignoring them because our current tests are not sophisticated enough to identify everything invalidates their subjective experience, and that’s not patient centered care.
This is the real issue when people are talking about medical gaslighting. Every endometriosis patient being told for years on end that their debilitating symptoms are “normal” period pain. The embarrassing statistics on how long it takes someone with an autoimmune disease to be correctly diagnosed.
We’ve become too impressed with our technological toys and forgot how to see the real human beings in front of us.
Funny story, instead of referring to groups of adults as " hey guys," I like to refer to them as “hey kids.” You know how many grown adults I’ve had object to this? Zero. Not one. Ever.
We all know it’s true
Agreed wholeheartedly. That said, Oppenheimer is officially the only biopic I’ve ever watched twice and will definitely watch again someday. Which makes it my favorite biopic, for whatever that is worth about a genre that I loathe.
They’re game devs, not an acquisition and mergers team. “We signed contract to do business with xyz terms” should be plenty reliable enough for conducting business. Not “Lol, whut? You didn’t read the fine print? Psyche! We’re changing everything.”
Unity deserve to get sued into oblivion for this
Maybe let’s try focusing on content and not personal characteristics of the presenters:
https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU?t=1347&si=wZjBIJkdmK8CwzIm
I’m way more annoyed by that terrible echoey microphone
I don’t understand what you mean. We solved sexism and racism, didn’t you hear? These are no longer problems that actually exist in the world and we’re all just whining about nothing.
You have to wonder if we aren’t just confirming what the Great Filter is. There may not be any space faring civilizations.
“Overwhelmingly, we’re seeing these challenges come from organized censorship groups that target local library board meetings to demand removal of a long list of books they share on social media.”
Maybe you should try reading sometime.
Yeah I have no idea how this was arranged, but it’s a very cool thing to have happened. God bless Mo and his family.
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“Women are specifically stating that the direct reason they’re choosing to delay pregnancy is the fall of Roe creating emergency health concerns.”
“I dunno, are you sure you can believe what women say? Did you check the “real” data?”
“The truth is you love censorship, and so does everyone else. The only question is whether you’re ready to admit it.”
https://gizmodo.com/why-censorship-is-part-of-everyday-life-section-230-1850095976
YEP. Same. It’s always entertaining at work to watch a colleague who’s never heard my accent before hear me speak to a patient from Appalachia or the south
Well, I guess at least you’re just a bigot and not also a hypocrite.