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by logjam 14y ago
My advice is just choose the place you'll feel happiest at for 4+ years. Think carefully about social support in terms of positive family and friend interactions. Choice of schools doesn't matter much - how interested and excited you are
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Life, death, and free culture in the Mission(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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by logjam 14y ago
No. Ellen Degeneres or The Voice or any of the other false equivalences you're desperately reaching to make is not the professional technical workplace. If you run in any of my technical circles, put on a technical presentation, or otherwis
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by logjam 14y ago
The irrational venom and utter cowardice of those who attacked this woman and her supporters, including here on HN, shouldn't be surprising, but somehow it still is. Tech? I would have thought better of arguably among the most "rational" hu
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by logjam 14y ago
People trying to excuse racism and sexism by claiming "they're funny" are the real jokes.
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by logjam 14y ago
Hi georgeorwell. I just went through your one comment above. You just told somebody who complained of getting death threats because of his comments here to watch how he comments so "his life might get a bit easier?" I can't imagine anythi
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by logjam 14y ago
> Okay, let's get this straight: capitalism drives efficiencies in markets. Efficiencies drive innovation. [citation needed] - please stop trying to argue from your own polemics you'd have us believe are axioms.
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by logjam 14y ago
"The Country That Stopped Reading" vs "The proportion of the Mexican population that is literate is going up, but in absolute numbers, there are more illiterate people in Mexico now than there were 12 years ago." In other words literacy is
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by logjam 14y ago
These are medical residents , not students. Residents have already graduated medical school and are training in their medical specialty. /pedant
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by logjam 14y ago
MD here. The headline on your webpage: "For serious medical conditions, you need direct access to the world’s best researchers ." [my emphasis added] Pardon my skepticism, but that sentence and the rest of your not-functioning-very-well we
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by logjam 14y ago
I'm a little unclear on the concept here, because this doesn't sound at all like Kickstarter. Microryza sound like nothing more than middlefolk between my research and funding sources. They "vet"? And their domain knowledge in my field is..
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by logjam 14y ago
Pharma gives gifts to physicians because giving gifts works to sell pharma's products. When I was in medical school and residency, it was a standard thing that lunches were all sponsored by pharma. These were usually nice catered meals br
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by logjam 14y ago
I was half-dozing on a Southwestern flight when a stewardess came on the PA system calling for any physician to identify themselves. I spoke up, and the crew directed me toward the back. They already had this incredible medical kit opened i
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by logjam 14y ago
Well, my fourth year of med school I did basically the same things, with the same responsibilities for the same number of hours as I did my first year of residency....and paid tuition for the privilege. Residency (and the 4th year of med sc
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by logjam 14y ago
> If it is legal it is no scam. Making patients pay as much as legally possible is legal. Really. M.D. in U.S. here. Your profile page says you're an M.D., too. Please reassure me that you are not a licensed physician and that you have
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by logjam 14y ago
Clearly, allowing easier access to voting is evil. No, definitely we should make it harder for those least able to afford it....working class people... to take time off from work and stand in line to vote. /sarcasm
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by logjam 14y ago
I don't understand how a question with an unsupported/uncited premise equivalent to "do you still beat your wife?" constitutes "an excellent question".
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by logjam 14y ago
Uh, no. I and all physicians and our office staffs get back complete eligibility information for ALL possible care from a single query from existing insurance co queries: eligibility for all surgical, laboratory, radiological, inpatient hos
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by logjam 14y ago
I'm a family medicine doc in a practice with several other docs. Why do you ask? I already read your site's security pages, which in large measure do NOT address the questions I've asked here. However, I believe you're right - neither I nor
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by logjam 14y ago
No, actually your reply doesn't describe your security practices at all. Why are you retaining live data at all? Forgive me, but just claiming "we certainly would not expose your patient's data" is hollow at best - I take the responsibility
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by logjam 14y ago
So actual patient data is being stored and manipulated, and manually "stripped" so that it can be posted (in effect) to the web? Again, I don't want to misunderstand you, but you feel comfortable doing this? I wouldn't. Please provide your
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by logjam 14y ago
Many many. I just discussed this with our office manger - checking eligibility is not a problem for us (nor would it be for most practices in my opinion) using web services already in place....and especially not free vs a dollar per 20 quer
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by logjam 14y ago
I don't get this. I'm a physician, and every insurance company to which I submit claims already has a web service in place to check eligibility...at no charge. Already. There aren't many interface differences between insurance companies: yo
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by logjam 14y ago
Just curious - how is it that you have claim data? In fact, how is it that you (if I'm not misunderstanding) are storing any actual live data whatsoever? Just to clarify...you have some data with patient identifiers already "removed"...or
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by logjam 14y ago
Utter nonsense. Reread what you just wrote. You somehow seem to really want us to believe, say, that because lemon growers choose California as a startup site and that California doesn't have single payer and Canada does, healthcare policy
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by logjam 14y ago
> ...I refuse to support Groklaw... will not start trusting anonymous reporting and support of Groklaw > I have supported everything Groklaw has done to this point. Kindly do two things for us: stop talking out of both sides of your
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by logjam 14y ago
I've long maintained that time estimates should not be a programmer's task, at least in most shops. That's one of the few things that a "manager" should do and do well: insist on realistic and as-precise-as-possible requirements, collect me
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by logjam 14y ago
> Quite honestly I grow tired of seeing any famous person or brand name on HN. It's almost always an indication of time-wasting nonsense ahead. Quite honestly your standards seem wildly inconsistent: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by logjam 14y ago
Confusing. "Pandering"? What possible definition of "pandering" are you using? This is an article about the origins of a technical communications medium, origins which apparently have some relation to semantics, commented on by the most emi
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by logjam 14y ago
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