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Given she's a health care professional I'd probably follow up with her for more of her reasoning. Has she seen it fail clinically? Is she aware of any adverse s
by TheBlight 3y ago
Given she's a health care professional I'd probably follow up with her for more of her reasoning. Has she seen it fail clinically? Is she aware of any adverse side-effects? Is it an issue with this specific brand?
- iamflimflam1 3y agoHealth care professional covers a huge range of people. This is not in any way meant to dismiss the incredible hard work that these people do, but health care is a notoriously low paid profession and many people have little to no qualifications. If you are assuming the “health care professional” equates to informed and well trained then I have a bridge that you might be interested in…
- vGPU 3y ago> health care is a notoriously low paid profession Where is that, exactly? Because it certainly isn’t in the US.
- dartos 3y agoIt depends where in healthcare. Geriatric nurses tend to not get paid well, but resident nurses in hospitals do. It’s a wide field.
- Tagbert 3y agoSurgeons and specialists are high paid. Regular physicians not so much. Nurses are not at all highly paid.
- vGPU 3y agoAs a nurse I make $100/hr. Try again.
- Tagbert 3y agoSince you are closer to the profession, do you think that wage is at all typical of a nurse or are you in a specialized area that pays higher? Just trying to understand what level of compensation is really happening.
- mikeyouse 3y agoYou must be in California.. in many states, RNs are making more like $15/hr and BSNs closer to $20-$25/hr.
- vGPU 3y agoNo, I’m not. Nor am I in any of the other high paying states you might name.
- selimthegrim 3y agoYou are a travel nurse?
- Tagbert 3y agoThat is surprising and does not track with what I have heard from other nurses. Are you in a specialized unit with extra care or something?
- shadowgovt 3y agoGlad to hear it, but your income is way past the 90th-percentile for nurses in the US. The 90th is something closer to half that number.
- nradov 3y agoMedian annual wage for a Registered Nurse in the US is $81K. That is way higher than the national average worker income of only $54K. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291141.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291141.htm
- shadowgovt 3y agoTrue, but the current national income level is so poor that it's threatening to actually crack the country, as people who recognize what a raw deal they've been dealt get less and less interested in perpetuating this system. We should probably stop comparing incomes to the global mean to decide if they're "fair" or "correct."
- iamflimflam1 3y agoIn the UK nurses appear to start around £22K https://www.nurses.co.uk/careers-hub/nursing-pay-guide/ https://www.nurses.co.uk/careers-hub/nursing-pay-guide/
- TheBlight 3y agoEvery profession has a spectrum of quality of worker. Any health care professional is more experienced than me. What does it hurt to follow-up for clarity? Her rationale may be completely unconvincing and that's fine I can then ignore it. Or she might tell me something interesting I can keep in mind and see if it gets corroborated by other sources.
- Izkata 3y ago> Has she seen it fail clinically? Flu vaccine efficacy has been <50% for over a decade. Usually it floats around 30-40%. So even by the official numbers, it doesn't do a lot for groups not really at risk. This is not a surprise: The yearly shots are for a subset of flus, created in the spring/summer for the strains they think will be most prevalent in the fall.