DanBC

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by DanBC 3y ago
> US's lifespan is not caused by lack of access to healthcare though, that is fentanyl. How do people with substance use disorders stop using substances? They use healthcare, unless they're in the US where they'll using so
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Designing content for people who struggle with numbers(service-manual.nhs.uk)
98 points by DanBC 3y ago|56 comments
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by DanBC 3y ago
The DH&SC isn't the NHS. How much of that money went from DH&SC to the NHS, vs to Tory pals selling defective PPE? Or private hospitals?
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by DanBC 3y ago
> Secondly, a consultant can refer you back to the NHS for treatment, effectively "jumping the queue". The patient would go to the back of the NHS queue, so I'm not sure how they're jumping anything. The real problem
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by DanBC 3y ago
That's a misunderstanding of the antecedents to death by suicide. We know (from the NCISH work in the UK) that financial distress is a significant factor for many people who die by suicide. People who attempt suicide may be less able t
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by DanBC 3y ago
Most infections were not from "airborne" transmission, but from fomites and particles. It's always weird when people say "show me the evidence" as if it's a win. You don't know what you're talking abo
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by DanBC 3y ago
Gentle reminder that news media reports about suicide are usually full of errors if they didn't have a statistician with them while writing the report. > People in the US might be particularly troubled to learn that the suicides the
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by DanBC 3y ago
> NHS employees in the UK as another example admit privately all the time to not recording things in meetings to avoid FoI exposure. Do you have any examples please?
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by DanBC 3y ago
> a properly fitted N95 mask is infinitely protective against an airborne virus People keep saying "airborne" as if that's the only route of transmission, but we know there are three routes - droplets in the eyes, air t
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by DanBC 3y ago
Read "Britania Unchained" (available at various shadow libraries). Then, when you've read it, realise that it was written by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Liz Truss. It's garbage front to
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by DanBC 3y ago
Look at the suicide rates. World Health Organisation does a bunch of work on safer pesticides because it's so commonly used as a method in lower income countries. https://www.who.int/news/item/17-12-2020-new-s
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by DanBC 3y ago
> Cancer: US deaths are way down since the 1990s, though it's cheating a bit since that was the top of the smoking-related spike in lung cancer. Still, other cancer deaths are way down since then too. [6][7] (Edit: worldwide this lo
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by DanBC 3y ago
> An ambulance in the UK is never more than 8 minutes away from you, an ambulance in the US can be miles from you. Most US road traffic deaths happen in cities and towns. Time to ambo is a factor, but it's not nearly as significant
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by DanBC 3y ago
I don't think you included out of pocket payments for Singapore, but you have for England.
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by DanBC 3y ago
> These are some of the jobs with the highest suicide levels What data are you using please?
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by DanBC 3y ago
The people doing the defunding say that it's defunding. They're proud of it. They wrote a manifesto saying they were going to do it, and then they did it. It's pretty blatant dishonesty to say that healthcare hasn't been
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by DanBC 3y ago
Important to point out that dentistry in England does not follow the NHS model of "free at the point of delivery, available to all regardless of ability to pay" but follows an insurance model, with a bit of state provision for tho
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by DanBC 3y ago
A hospital bed isn't a bed - any idiot can buy beds in bulk from any hospital supplier. A hospital bed is a package that consists of the bed and the long list of stuff needed to support that bed, which includes all the staff (doctors,
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by DanBC 3y ago
> I don't think the UK has ever had a government that actually wanted the NHS to fail. > I also really doubt there are many in government or politics who want a US style system. You might want to read "Britania Unchained&quo
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A commitment to act on data sharing(bmj.com)
2 points by DanBC 3y ago|0 comments
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by DanBC 3y ago
> there is no discussion of the European health systems that appear, at least from the outside, to be significantly better. Problems with the NHS are not about the model, they're about the funding. The current government has defund
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by DanBC 3y ago
Yes, and the rest of this thread shows a few people confused about the meaning of "possibly causes cancer" and how to interpret that wrt their own behaviour. IARCs comms strategy isn't great, and science journalism isn't
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by DanBC 3y ago
There's a big difference between "this causes cancer" and "this causes lots of cancer". IARC look at the quality of the evidence to put things into one of four groups. Some things definitely do cause cancer, but the
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by DanBC 3y ago
IARC will release it when it's ready, and it'll be here: https://www.iarc.who.int/cards_page/iarc-publications/ (probably here: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/ ) Important to remember t
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by DanBC 3y ago
This article is shit. > Last year, the N.H.S. announced that it would be shutting down the country’s only youth gender clinic after an external review showed that the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service had been unable to provi
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Experiences of digital forensics analysts who work with child abuse material(frontiersin.org)
3 points by DanBC 3y ago|1 comments
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by DanBC 3y ago
The full title, which is way too long for the HN title box, is "An exploration of the personal experiences of digital forensics analysts who work with child sexual abuse material on a daily basis: “you cannot unsee the darker side of l
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by DanBC 3y ago
There's a difference between diagnostic testing of individuals who have symptoms and population level screening. Both involve statistics and probability, and the public (and a surprising number of health care professionals) really stru
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by DanBC 3y ago
> So the harm could be CT scans, biopsies, colonoscopies Colonoscopy is low risk, but not no risk, and there are plenty of people who have a colonoscopy that goes wrong and bamn they're taken for surgery, anaesthetised, have part of
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GiveDirectly loses $900k in DRC mobile cash fraud(thenewhumanitarian.org)
2 points by DanBC 3y ago|0 comments

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