ReallyAnonymous

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by ReallyAnonymous 8y ago
if it's any consolation, I'm a surgeon, and in my town, another surgeon's wife was diagnosed with lung cancer right after his last weekend of call. She underwent surgery / chemo / radiation and died within 4 months
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by ReallyAnonymous 9y ago
surgeon here - the "robot" is not a robot - you 100% control the instruments. It just allows the instruments to mimic the movements of your hands inside the body, without the big incisions. I've sent patients with lymph nodes
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by ReallyAnonymous 9y ago
surgeon here - 15 years - thinking about, but haven't received training to allow me to use the robot. I consider myself a moderately advanced laparoscopic surgeon - I do lap cholecystectomies (gallbladder), laparoscopic hernias, adrena
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by ReallyAnonymous 9y ago
My parents saved their whole lives and now make about $100,000 / year in qualified dividends - They pay about 6K in federal taxes with all that income. My dad bought pcg_pe for $12 / share when they went into bankruptcy protection
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by ReallyAnonymous 10y ago
I think universal healthcare would definitely improve the system. So in the US, healthy, employed by big corporation people, pay about $17k / year for family healthcare. Then, when they turn 65, they join medicare and the insurance com
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by ReallyAnonymous 10y ago
High charges of low cost items are because of the amount of free care hospitals provide. I'm a physician in South Carolina and I take care of a tremendous number of fully employed people with no health insurance. Those of us with insur
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by ReallyAnonymous 10y ago
medical school is humbling and difficult. Being a physician is difficult. I finished medical school in 1996 - didn't find it ridiculously hard, but then again, studying a lot was what I did in my youth. Now, I'm 47 years old, and
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by ReallyAnonymous 10y ago
As a surgeon who is 48, I will say that on my transplant rotation ( I am not a transplant surgeon ) the theory of the safety of donation was in the Vietnam War era data that said that soldiers who lost a kidney from injury were at no increa
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by ReallyAnonymous 10y ago
I work for a >10,000 employee health care system as a physician. What I have seen is that the front line workers are considered disposable, and should be grateful for a job. The superstars ( always nice, compassionate, and excellent at t
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by ReallyAnonymous 10y ago
It'll take 20 years, but slowly over time, informed, intelligent people will choose another profession. And then there will be no one qualified to teach. And then the universities charging $90,000 a year tuition will panic. The problem
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by ReallyAnonymous 11y ago
As stated below, the real problem is wage suppression by those with the money. As more wealth gets concentrated to a few, they can decide what someone is worth. That is why there is no middle class. Everyone is replaceable and everyone that