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The $43M Veterans Affairs simulation hospital where doctors pilot new tech
- floydnoel 2y ago[flagged]
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- AndrewKemendo 2y agoAs a victim of the veterans administration health care system let me just reinforce all the bad stereotypes and horror stories about it. It’s so much worse than you even hear about. My primary care doctor was basically zoned out every visit and almost all the staff were impossible to communicate with with no desire to try. Simply trying to get someone on the phone that has the ability to do anything was a joke. You know the hospital scene in idiocracy? We’re like three iterations away from that at this point, and this BS pilot program is exactly how we get there
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- uslic001 2y agoThe VA is a system that is about to implode due to its DEI policies.
- AndrewKemendo 2y agoWhenever I see a comment like this, it just tells me that whoever was structurally exploiting some low power group is just mad that they actually have to care about the people being exploited If making a system more equitable leads to its “implosion” then it was exploitative at it’s roots and shouldn’t exist in the first place
- brudgers 2y agoA laboratory for testing hospital scale operations offline seems like an obviously good idea to me. I wonder if there are others.
- Taikonerd 2y agoThis makes a lot of sense to me. In software development, it's standard to have a testing environment, rather than rolling new code out directly to prod. ("Prod" in this case would be VA hospitals serving real patients.)