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by assblaster 8y ago
You make more money paying off debt earlier, instead of investing that same money at a possible return of 6% per year, I've done the calculations myself for my situation. You should do the same.
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by assblaster 8y ago
If your mortgage is $600k, you should work towards paying that off more quickly, depending on the interest rate, so that you can be free from that burden. Once your house is paid for, then your daily work can decrease if you want, or have e
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by assblaster 8y ago
Diabetes and hypertension both increase the risks of coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, renal disease, peripheral vascular disease, blindness, heart chamber enlargement and failure, localized infections, decreased wound heali
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by assblaster 8y ago
I guess the question then is what criteria qualifies a non-disabled person to be considered disabled?
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by assblaster 8y ago
With the unemployment rate so low and the number of jobs created increasing, why would disability application be a logical next step?
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by assblaster 8y ago
Actually that's not that bad for the United States since the obesity rate in the US is 4x that of Norway. If the US got its obesity rate under control, we could save a lot of money (less hypertension, less diabetes).
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by assblaster 8y ago
Alcohol is not safe. Too much can impair judgement resulting in increased agreeableness to sexual advances. Too much can result in impaired driving, and the decreased judgement can allow someone to decide to drive despite impairment. Too fr
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by assblaster 8y ago
First two years of medical school are in classroom, second two years are clinical rotations. Residency is after medical school, and that's the first time you start earning a meager paycheck. In medical school, even when you're &qu
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by assblaster 8y ago
How do you interpret an image if you don't have an understanding of what is in it? In other words, let's say that a patient has a fever. Chest X-ray was done. High-school educated "radiologist" sees the image. Does he un
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by assblaster 8y ago
Since you haven't been through medical education and training, you wouldn't understand that while certain details are forgotten, the core knowledge that serves as the basis for further learning is retained. Do you remember every d
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by assblaster 8y ago
>Why does a heart surgeon need to know anything about psychiatry? Heart surgeons have patients with psychiatric problems. And patients are typically on psychiatric medications, which have cardiac side effects. More broadly, heart surgeon
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by assblaster 8y ago
Medical school is 4 years, pre-medical school is 4 years, internship is 1 year, residency is 2-7 years.
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by assblaster 8y ago
Instead of Latin/Greek root words, you'd have to learn a new system of common words. And not just new trainees, but also practicing physicians, because everyone has to speak the same language.
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by assblaster 8y ago
>so people can just learn the names on the job Ah, yes, the best way to learn all the intricacies of a human: osmosis. Good luck attaining knowledge that takes 8+ years of focused study in medical training today through osmosis over 30 y
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by assblaster 8y ago
How do you acquire knowledge without memorization? What technology do you anticipate using? Johnny Mnemonic neural implantation?
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by assblaster 8y ago
Yet another person with no experience in medicine, finally figured out how to "disrupt" medicine with technology. You can't practice medicine without knowledge. You can't learn how to practice medicine without knowledge.
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by assblaster 8y ago
I don't 100% trust what another person reports to me regarding another subject, I'd rather look into it myself and figure out the truth as I see it. Regarding medical practice, why would a physician rely on what a high school grad
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by assblaster 8y ago
You are not able to ascertain the degree to which restaurant employment would increase if there was a lot of illegal employment or no illegal employment because the statistics are, by nature, unreported.
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The other important consideration is illegal aliens who are likely working off the books and paid less than minimum wage. Without strict rules regarding employment of illegal aliens, businesses will continue to take advantage of illegal hir
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WSJ/Fox/Murdoch have had it out for Google ever since they viewed Google as an existential threat because of the advertising business and YouTube.
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But, our current society already does this, since we're not living under communism and centralized price fixing. Even "public" school salaries are determined by the market.
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by assblaster 8y ago
I think the education market is ripe for disruption with increased online education and collectives for socialization. Homeschooling 2.0, which doesn't require expensive physical plants for every neighborhood.
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by assblaster 8y ago
But why does the "degree" require paying for college football or fancy dorms or student entertainment? College has lost its focus on education and, nationally, colleges are competing on providing amenities and costs of college are
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by assblaster 8y ago
Do you see a responsibility of the federal government in lending money to students who have no ability to reasonably pay back their loans because their degrees don't have a high rate of return? Do you see a problem with universities in
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by assblaster 8y ago
>You're not arguing in good faith. Goodbye. You haven't come up with a single situation where a non-cardiac medical problem can be diagnosed solely with a handheld single vector ECG. You don't mention anything about false
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The alternative is having less minerals available and thus higher prices, which hurts all social strata. I think mining is a necessity to exploit all natural resource opportunities, very similar to how I would view solar and wind installati
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>And who do you think covers the remaining $150-infinity? Primary care office visits of low complexity are typically less than $150. Suggesting otherwise is a sign of profound ignorance.
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Attributing death to a medical error instead of the underlying condition that would have been the cause of death anyway is missing the forest through the trees. If you go into the hospital because you have stage IV colon cancer, and you die
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>Did you know that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US, right after heart attack and cancer? Seems to me that "human" doctors are also a dangerous proposition. Where's your citation? Here's w
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>The point is, right now the majority of (very expensive!) doctor visits are a total waste of everyone's time, and your money. Honestly, what are you talking about? A doctor's visit costs between $0 and $150, depending on insur

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