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Very tangential, but interesting enough story: My dad grew up the youngest in a relatively poor family in Montana with four kids and a father that drank most o
by tombert 2y ago
Very tangential, but interesting enough story:
My dad grew up the youngest in a relatively poor family in Montana with four kids and a father that drank most of their cash away. My dad really needed braces, but they couldn't afford to pay a dentist, so my grandmother got a part time job as a dental assistant and paid very close attention to the process of installing and removing braces.
After a few months, she "borrowed" the materials required for braces, and installed them on my dad, and removed them about a year later. Apparently it worked out fine, my dad's teeth are alright.
Obviously, things going "alright" is more a matter of luck than anything else: there's a reason that people go to dental school, and they were fortunate that there weren't any complications, but I always thought it was amusing that that's how my dad got his teeth straightened.
- mncharity 2y ago> they were fortunate that there weren't any complications I long ago saw a proposal for a country-scale medical training system designed for graceful upgrading. A highly experienced nurse, wishing to become a doctor, just learns the delta, rather than restarting from scratch. Similarly for a community heath worker moving into nursing, etc. And a different proposal, for automated support and oversight of community health workers' hard-to-take-well cervical-cancer screening photos, integrated with ai-filtered city-based expert consults. And then there's patients who become single-disease domain experts. So looking forward, perhaps we could imagine a human-computer-hybrid setup where a grandma training and executing with oversight was gracefully supported? Especially if haptic vr becomes widely available.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoAsk an experienced cosmetologist at a salon how many of their clients come in, wearing a hat or scarf, asking them to rescue a home project going awry. And then scroll around Google Maps to see how many nail and hair "salons" are running in someone's private home.