ejstronge

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by ejstronge 2y ago
> When was the over supply. A google search for '1990s physician oversupply' will give you many articles, like this one: https://www.bmj.com/content/312/7026/269.1
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> Educating doctors is really expensive. It would really suck to invest all that money in someone (or in yourself) just for them to fail a final test or whatever. This happens already, today. There are dozens of reasonable questions you
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> The article clearly shows the skills necessary to work as a doctor are a lot wider than academic ability. Where does the article show this?
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> And the schools prefer it (at least in the US) - limited highly paid doctors means they can charge exorbitant tuition. What's the evidence for your position? Researchers who study this question have shown that the cost of medical
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> Because doctors' associations and regulatory bodies (like AAMC in the US) lobby to keep it that way to keep the value of their profession up. This isn't true of the AAMC position in the US today, and when it was true in the 9
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by ejstronge 2y ago
> Those aren’t fancy cuts or prime grade beef. Just regular steak... I don’t know how the low income families deal with a 30% increase in their grocery bills I don't think low income families are buying steak - and price increases
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> Ahh yes, nothing treats heart hypo perfusion quite like forcing the heart into overdrive and massive vasoconstriction. Why is the US so far behind on this??? This is actually quite reasonable, especially if it’s paired with an existing
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> That’s ridiculous because in a single per system the government stands in front anyways. > There are plenty of drugs in Europe doctor might want to prescribe but the government says “nope, not going to pay for it” Not only does this
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> Ion Torrent and Genapsys are barely used due to accuracy problems, Accurancy didn't have very much to do with Ion Torrent's demise. As we're reminded in the OP, Illumina pushed the MiSeq platform, and there wasn't m
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Many drugs are prescribed in ways that take advantages of their side effects. Indeed, many drugs are designed for one purpose but perform a second purpose much better. It’s clear that these drugs cause weight loss (in everyone) so I’m not s
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by ejstronge 3y ago
It is a compelling study, but retrospective trials, in general, aren't the correct design to answer this kind of question. I am not saying the results aren't accurate - just that in medicine, there have been instances where a pros
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by ejstronge 3y ago
I am not disagreeing that cannabis may be a cause. This kind of article doesn’t offer any evidence toward the idea outside correlations - and this kind of correlation is very tenuous. A good example to demonstrate the idea is the outsized u
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Won’t have the space/time to respond fully, but the allusions to bipolar disease and, especially, schizophrenia need to be viewed quite cautiously. I do not believe these disorders are thought to originate from environmental factors pr
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> They also usually prevent one from applying AP credits or IB credits to college courses Maybe this was your experience, but I have not ever heard of this, so ‘usually’ may not be the correct descriptor.
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by ejstronge 3y ago
It is not disingenuous - it is quite clear that the kind of driving that happens in rural settings (fast, two-lane roads, no lights) is different from the kind of driving that happens in cities (slower, larger roads, street lights, stop lig
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> They count pure # of accidents and not accidents per miles driven from what I heard. > misleading I will agree that the data presented could be much better than they currently are. To call this misleading, however, wouldn't you
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by ejstronge 3y ago
It would seem to be the same - but also restaurant workers likely don’t hit the minimums frequently, since the kitchen would probably be unprofitable to run in settings where front of house are only making $3/hr.
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by ejstronge 3y ago
They used tips (and may still use tips) to refund themselves for the minimum pay offered to dashers. The language was very deceptive, as giving a tip did not always increase the amount of money received by a dasher.
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Are you referring to the LinkedIn case? There has not been a decision on the legality of scraping in that matter
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by ejstronge 3y ago
You and I are in agreement (see my responses earlier in the chain). All of this has nothing to do with a land value tax; instead, some people believe that cities should not allow vacant properties. This is a fine opinion, but it does not ne
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> If a developer wants to sit on a parcels for 3 decades, they're still able to do so but they'll also need to pay up for keeping high-value land vacant. That money can then be reinvested into the community. How is that differe
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by ejstronge 3y ago
I hear you, and I can sympathize as someone who has lived in cities that have changed rapidly. However, I can see a long-term venture fund taking the exact bet you suggested. If the value of the new building that combines parcels is high en
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by ejstronge 3y ago
I know you were not using the term incorrectly. My problem is with the term, altogether. As you've said, you wish to have a higher tax on land. That is very reasonable, and a policy position that one could examine within the establishe
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by ejstronge 3y ago
I don’t have examples but in my coastal city, land values (for homes) are near 20% of the improvement. Edit: I'm seeing 40% land value compared to total assessed value for homes in my neighborhood, incidentally
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Yes, but instead of proposing a new phrase, it would seem that one could simply propose an increase on the tax rate on land values? I am aware of the history of the term - just frustrated that it’s thrown around as a brand new idea. A probl
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by ejstronge 3y ago
> Property tax has a low tax value for the land itself and a high value for the improvements on the property. This is not true in cities like NYC or Boston; also likely not true in many parts of LA. This is why people tear down houses to
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by ejstronge 3y ago
How would a land value tax change this? The developer was paying a property tax the whole time, and this tax explicitly considers the value of the land. A vacancy tax may have helped but maybe not. A useful disincentive would need to reduce
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by ejstronge 3y ago
I again don’t have a sense of how this works, but the activities performed by a resident are overseen by a qualified doctor. Eventually, the residents are able to supervise other residents and only consult the qualified doctor for important
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Residents are not fully qualified physicians, so it does make sense that they cannot bill for their work. Further, residents, by and large, are paid for by Medicare. > While they may provide value in other ways, they are viewed as cost o
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by ejstronge 3y ago
Other nations have longer post-graduate training requirements, sometimes including compulsory national service. For many specialties, a US high school grad will be fully qualified before her UK peer

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