DanBC

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by DanBC 4y ago
You not knowing how to use a search engine makes you unqualified to talk about the obsessive use of search engines by KF users.
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by DanBC 4y ago
The study is an independent report. The Royal Colleges are not part of the NHS. > It shut Tavistock All the anti-trans activists think this is some brilliant "gotcha" moment, but they don't appear to know that most trans p
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by DanBC 4y ago
Submitting this because NHS Digital have spent some time making a complicated system a bit easier, and they did it by talking to users.
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Overcoming Barriers to GP Registration(digital.nhs.uk)
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Here is the UK National Health Service's Cass Review: Not NHS. It's not a great sign of accuracy if you're getting this wrong. And the Cass review calls for an expansion of provision of gender affirming care for children
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by DanBC 4y ago
> It's not that different, no. At the scale of large institutions these two things blur together significantly. They "can" fire staff for incompetence in theory but if they actually do that more than once in a blue moon th
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by DanBC 4y ago
Sure, but we have plenty of people who did not paint targets on their back[1], and who didn't reveal who or where they are, and they got doxxed by obsessive trolls at KF. Telling people "you'll be fine, KF won't dox you&
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by DanBC 4y ago
You're using a definition of "run by the government" that is both bizarre but also does not fit the NHS. This belief that the NHS is not run by the government isn't a belief, it's fact, as you'd know if you&#x2
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by DanBC 4y ago
> U.K. is 100% government run I know I'm a broken record on this but people who say this are simply wrong. 1) There is not one NHS for the UK. Health is devolved and there are totally separate systems for NI, Scotland, Wales, and En
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by DanBC 4y ago
This is simply untrue. EG "I am—well, I was—great at opsec. I got doxxed on farms because someone spent 50+ hours trying to nail me down until he ultimately “compare[d] her tweets to weather history to determine her city, and complied
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by DanBC 4y ago
> The NHS is in no way run by anything even resembling corporations, come on. What? Of course it is. This hospital trust has its own budget, it has a board of directors, they're not controlled by local government, they're not c
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by DanBC 4y ago
Right, but "not doing what they should do" is different to "can't do what they want to do". This is the problem with all the anti-NHS posts on HN -- none of them have a clue how the NHS works, so they always miss th
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Maybe the UK is unique in that criticism of the NHS is taboo. Hardly taboo. For one thing this person got her story printed in national news media, and other media also covered it. And there are several national newspapers who run anti
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by DanBC 4y ago
What on earth makes you think this hospital could not fire the responsible healthcare professionals?
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> The hospital in question is an NHS hospital i.e. run directly by the British state as basically all hospitals are. That's not how the English NHS works. The hospitals are run by NHS trusts. This particular hospital is run by King&
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Is it somehow better for unelected robber barons to micro-manage every interaction of private individuals? They can't, because we have laws against monopolies.
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by DanBC 4y ago
Post your name and address here.
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by DanBC 4y ago
The advice can be more nuanced. We know that processed red meat definitely causes cancer. We also know that it doesn't cause very much cancer. Our message isn't "stop eating processed red meat", it's "if you ha
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by DanBC 4y ago
> While I agree with your premise, how the hell do we know the parent is a trained physician? We don't know, but it doesn't matter. We can go to websites like the BMJ and see trained physicians and researchers saying the same t
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Likewise with MRI MRI isn't radiation, but is sometimes used with contrast dye. People can be allergic to the dye. For one person this is a small risk. Across a population we'd be causing harm. We'd balance the risks of
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by DanBC 4y ago
> You are never disadvantaged by knowing more about what's inside your body. Yes, you are. This has a name - over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment. It's a significant cause of harm in healthcare. https://
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by DanBC 4y ago
> We can't have a society that requires CEO to decide who is morally acceptable and who is not. > If law's have been broken we need law enforcement. This argument, that if it's legal there's no problem is calling f
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by DanBC 4y ago
That doesn't rebut my point in anyway. Please address the findings of LeDeR.
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by DanBC 4y ago
LeDeR tells us that premature death is overwhelmingly from poor access to healthcare and substandard healthcare when it is accessed, and it not an intrinsic feature of Down's.
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by DanBC 4y ago
You not knowing history is a you problem. Genuinely weird to see people proud of their ignorance. Black people have been in Europe for many centuries. https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1418911714175750147?s=.
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by DanBC 4y ago
Cloudflare claim to be a neutral web infrastructure company; a dumb pipe. They provide service to a website run by a Nazi. The website encourages stochastic terrorism behind a paper thin veneer of "please don't do this" (wink
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by DanBC 4y ago
When was the goat sold at auction?
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> Launching a lot of methane rockets would be really expensive to the environment. What does it turn into when burnt? Would there be much unburnt methane leaking into the environment from these rockets and the infrastructure to support t
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by DanBC 4y ago
You've got some of the detail wrong. He spent years hopping from job to job in different organisations. Some of them were NHS orgs, but others were charities. When his deception was discovered he left the job. From your link: "the
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by DanBC 4y ago
Well, this backfired. Please, for the love of christ, just read the fucking article before commenting. Also, the New Humanitarian has a lot of interesting articles.

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