I think insurance reform is something like 90% of people agree on.. But it doesn’t mean you just get to murder everyone involved in insurance.
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“Rationality” in that context is just the buttfuckers demanding they not face consequences for their behavior which is quite literally fucking everyone in the butt.
Violence comes in many forms. Don’t act like congress-enabled gangsters if you don’t want to face gangster-type consequences.
I got secondary bacterial pneumonia after a dengue fever infection when I was 18
My fever drifted between 104 and 105 for 5 days and I was too weak to make facial expressions even. Had a nasty cough for about three weeks after and the scarring still shows up on chest x rays which I have to get because I was also exposed to tuberculosis in Panama so I test positive for it. When I get. Tuberculin skin test it swells up the size of a golf ball and itches like a motherfucker.
I didn’t seek treatment that whole time because I was more afraid of going to the hospital in Panama than whatever dengue was doing to me
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The next big thing in organ transplants will be 3D printed organs using your own stem cells, so 0% rejection and no need for anti-rejection meds. I think getting the vascular parts down is the only hurdle at this point. This will be a game changer for alcoholics.
Thats probably 80 years away.
That’s going to be a game changer for lifespan too
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They’re already doing it with windpipes and ears. Major organs are 5-10 years away from clinical trials.
Wasnt the windpipe thing a scam. Saw that on netflix i think.
Not sure about that.
I do pre-surgical psychological transplant evaluations (lung, heart, kidney, liver, stem cell, plus a few other pre-surgical things like bariatric and spinal surgeries) - and active substance use, including alcohol use, instantly either disqualifies someone or else moves them to the end of the line.
Yeah. printing their own organ cuts out the whole factor of “wasting” a good organ that might save someone else’s life - but even then, there aren’t a lot of surgeons doing this, they’re going to want to spend their time on people they can save and not people who will immediately destroy their new livers or whatever by resuming drinking upon hospital discharge.
Maybe in 30+ years when we have robo-surgeons and there’s no wait for anything, hahaha.
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I was joking about the alcoholic thing.
In reality, I think we’re 20-25 years away from this being a thing. Stuff like this takes time but it’s 
where we’re heading.
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I thought about it, and you’re probably right. 
Tech will eventually alter this considerably.
Just one more threat to my job, LOL.
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It’s kind of scary how far we’ve come in a considerable short amount of time. Tech is the ultimate job killer.
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Will we move to a point where “robo surgeons” exist and there is no need for human surgeons?
Future is scary ..
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Yes and it’s definitely made me much more willing to accept something like UBI ..
Any reports on Ben today?
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No sir.
It’s also a job creator.
You don’t do one thing, there’s plenty of people that will want you to do another one. Or you can do nothing instead.
Steam machines or looms or printing presses did the same.
It’s all about incentives.
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We are AWFULLY close to it right now. I’ve been reading a bit on tele-surgery - patient lays in a robotic set-up and a surgeon miles away uses s/t like an XBox controller to manipulate the machine and perform the surgery via what they see on the cameras. It’s a small step from there to removing the human element.
I read one article about a fully AI controlled surgeon having better tumor removal percentage stats on practice dummies than experienced human surgeons did. Not real people, true, but it’s coming soon.
My daughter has had three brain surgeries over the past nine months, with the nastiest part of her tumor wrapped around the front of her brainstem, which controls trivial things like heart beat and breathing 
Her surgeon thinks he got all of what was left in the third surgery, but he isn’t 100% sure. He told me and the oncologist he hopes never to have to do a surgery like that again in a LONG fucking time, primarily because the boundary between tumor and brainstem and also important vasculature like her basilar and vertebral arteries was so tight - a millimeter cut in the wrong direction and her heart stops, or she stops breathing, or bleeds out. He said is aware of robotic systems that will do that even better than he can - and he’s the chief of neurosurgery at St. Jude, he’s a bad motherfucker and knows what he’s doing.
If he’s thinking about being replaced, holy fuck…
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Cool article from last month. The DaVinci 5 machine is like science fiction stuff…
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