I could totally see how someone could think Huckleberry Finn was hell of racist if they didn't finish it. And it is a long book.
But all of that is just the nescessary buildup to the main character realizing how deeply shitty and racist his culture and religion and everything he had been brought up to think was good really was. That just because someone does the right and Christian thing doesn't mean they aren't terrible people.
It is worth slogging through that long, long book just for this if nothing else.
"All right, then, I'll GO to hell"--and tore it up.”
No no, these papers I'm talking about are not written by silly or stupid people.
They have very, very specific examples and opinions and they deconstruct every single moment where Huck Finn is supposedly 'doing the right thing' or having a moral crisis moment and explain why he hasn't changed a bit and is still really racist and sort of awful.
If I were allowed to write about the book like they are, these would actually be very good papers.
But the essay topics are like "discuss the symbolism of the river as it relates to social constraints."
And none of these essays care to talk about any of that, they are all interested in breaking down Huck and/or Twain's racism.
Jeep, the river isn't really about the river. The awfulness and racism is what they want you to talk about.
Man.
I'm really starting to get my feelings hurt that everyone here thinks I'm just really, really, really dumb.
Personally I think the per procedure model of healthcare is a shitty one that encourages overtesting, over utilization and profits over actual results.
Well, then you get into a similar problem as with education, where the results matter as much (or more) on the characteristics of the customer as they do on the effort or techniques of the professional. You start paying providers based on results and the only providers who treat the elderly, the poor, the mentally ill, and the obese are the providers who are doing it out of some internal moral compass.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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I have eaten far too much yoghurt.
Discuss.
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
my pet suspicion is that you can't get political pressure to control costs in hospitals until you get some way to relieve hospitals of a duty to treat
Other countries seem to control costs way better than we do and don't give up the duty to treat.
because they adopted the universal duty to treat after they introduced state healthcare
moving in the opposite direction requires hospitals pushing back against being driven to bankruptcy in a difficult direction
Hospitals don't have a duty to treat in the US.
Emergency departments do, but that covers the ED only.
Emergency costs are one driver of overall healthcare costs, but they're not a primary driver.
it's ballooning admin costs, if I followed the debate correctly
Ballooning administrative costs and overutilization are the least controversial drivers. (But of course no two people will ever agree on what exactly constitutes "over"utilization versus appropriate utilization.)
Rising costs were masked for a little while in the 90s by insurance companies profiting more off of float via stock market investments.
Diversion of patients from low-cost primary care offices into high-cost emergency departments due to lack of health insurance is a cost driver. On an overall national scale it's not that big of a cost driver, but when looking at public expenditures specifically it's important because EDs receive a disproportionate share of public funds.
Poor record-keeping and inter-provider coordination cause more medical errors, which can be ameliorated by better use of electronic health records, but the adoption of EHR usually turns out to be much more expensive in the short-run than the medical errors that it prevents, which is why Medicare is offering incentives for it.
I also firmly believe that the AMA and the AAMC are flagrantly rent-seeking by trying to keep the supply of MDs artificially low and their value artificially high, but I recognize that this is a controversial interpretation.
Is it really controversial? I mean, I guess if you're completely ignorant.
They also rent-seek by trying to keep going to an MD as your only option. Being a GP shouldn't involve having to put on pants on most days. Most days, a GP should be able to sit at home at his computer, and just wait for calls to come in from the large group of PAs and nurses he or she consults for. But we don't want more PAs or nurses, because that would reduce the need for MDs, and would reduce the incredible amount of money they cost.
I should not need to see a fucking MD when I have an ear infection or strep throat and need some antibiotics, unless there is some sort of strange complication going on that requires more advanced knowledge.
This is why we should be encouraging Nurse Practitioners and making them more viable as a GP replacement.
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i fucking quoted structure sign and play in here last night
where were you podly
you would quote structure sign play
call me when you're ready to talk Speech and Phenomena
edit* and so help me god if you come at me without having devoured the Husserl first
SO HELP ME GOD
Truth be told, I am not super well versed in criticism. I think the sprinkling I have is useful, but I don't want anymore exposure. All criticism is observation, privilege, and patterning. All of it. I know how to do that. I know how to find interesting things in texts.
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I could totally see how someone could think Huckleberry Finn was hell of racist if they didn't finish it. And it is a long book.
But all of that is just the nescessary buildup to the main character realizing how deeply shitty and racist his culture and religion and everything he had been brought up to think was good really was. That just because someone does the right and Christian thing doesn't mean they aren't terrible people.
It is worth slogging through that long, long book just for this if nothing else.
"All right, then, I'll GO to hell"--and tore it up.”
No no, these papers I'm talking about are not written by silly or stupid people.
They have very, very specific examples and opinions and they deconstruct every single moment where Huck Finn is supposedly 'doing the right thing' or having a moral crisis moment and explain why he hasn't changed a bit and is still really racist and sort of awful.
If I were allowed to write about the book like they are, these would actually be very good papers.
But the essay topics are like "discuss the symbolism of the river as it relates to social constraints."
And none of these essays care to talk about any of that, they are all interested in breaking down Huck and/or Twain's racism.
Jeep, the river isn't really about the river. The awfulness and racism is what they want you to talk about.
Man.
I'm really starting to get my feelings hurt that everyone here thinks I'm just really, really, really dumb.
I'll stop talking about school.
No! Jeep! I was trying to help! It is not obvious if you haven't done a lot of writing and reading on this subject before!
Personally I think the per procedure model of healthcare is a shitty one that encourages overtesting, over utilization and profits over actual results.
Well, then you get into a similar problem as with education, where the results matter as much (or more) on the characteristics of the customer as they do on the effort or techniques of the professional. You start paying providers based on results and the only providers who treat the elderly, the poor, the mentally ill, and the obese are the providers who are doing it out of some internal moral compass.
A story about lawyers will perhaps illustrate the point. At a meeting of lawyers at which problems of admission were being discussed, a colleague of mine, arguing against restrictive admission standards, used an analogy from the automobile industry. Would it not, he said, be absurd if the automobile industry were to argue that no one should drive a low quality car and therefore that no automobile manufacturer should be permitted to produce a car that did not come up to the Cadillac standard. One member of the audience rose and approved the analogy, saying that, of course, the country cannot afford any thing but Cadillac lawyers! This tends to be the professional attitude. The members look solely at technical standards of performance, and argue in effect that we must have only first-rate physicians even if this means that some people get no medical service -- though of course they never put it that way. Nonetheless, the view that people should get only the "optimum" medical service always lead to a restrictive policy, a policy that keeps down the number of physicians. I would not, of course, want to argue that this is the only force at work, but only that this kind of consideration leads many well-meaning physicians to go along with policies that they would reject out-of-hand if they did not have this kind of comforting rationalization.
I don't think you're dumb RF, it is pretty frustrating having to approach the monolith that is liberal arts academia and having to figure out how to talk in that realm without a paddle
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Yeah per procedure is really dangerous to nationalized healthcare.
In the Netherlands everyone in the chain makes a profit if an action is taken by the hospital, except the government and/or next years rates. There's just way to little incentive in the opposite direction.
One thing I really want out is a per procedure profit for specialists. The primary decisionmaker should not be able to get more money if he takes decision A vs decision B.
Only took three weeks and minimal effort to arrive at complete demoralization
How is your job hunt going?
I put one new application in
Part of this week I spent volunteering at a nonprofit putting out an amicus brief
Every job posting I look at comes with a whisper "you're not qualified our they'll never hire you"
I've been to a couple networking type things
It's important to stick with it and kind of muscle through the bleakness. Try to treat looking for work as a job, is what they say to do. Create a routine out of it.
ED might not be the bulk of costs, but that doesn't matter - hospitals have discretion over internal allocation of budgets, so if they put ED first in line to be cut, and ED has a duty to treat, then budget control closes the hospital. that's not popular, so there is no call to control budgets
This doesn't make sense and I'm not sure if it's because I'm not understanding you, or because you're unclear on how US hospitals operate, or because you know something I don't, or because you're not talking about the US here.
A hospital may decide to close their ED due to budget constraints; this does not result in the closure of the hospital.
And in fact one of the major problems facing the US right now is ED closures.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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senj is right
also I'm not unconvinced that senj is not the spawn from a threeway Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Steve McQeen had in Shanghai
Personally I think the per procedure model of healthcare is a shitty one that encourages overtesting, over utilization and profits over actual results.
Well, then you get into a similar problem as with education, where the results matter as much (or more) on the characteristics of the customer as they do on the effort or techniques of the professional. You start paying providers based on results and the only providers who treat the elderly, the poor, the mentally ill, and the obese are the providers who are doing it out of some internal moral compass.
Or
or
mandate
mandating on an individual level is bad times and we shouldn't go there
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Podlyyou unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered Userregular
also, my roommate said she was going to be home but ended up having to go do some on-sight fact checking (I HATE HER WORKING FOR THE NEW YORKER WAS MY DREAM JOB WHEN I WAS 17)
so I've got a half a pot of coffee
and I've got a big bottle of bailey's
supposed to meet homegirl's friends tonight that I haven't seen since like sophomore year of college
THEY'RE GONNA LOVE THE PODLY THEY GET AWWWWW YEAH!
Lit crit and art crit is important and valuable but the way they do it in schools and academia is uiuuggghhhbhfhdhrhrhsna
Where else do they do it?
Theoretically, anybody could do it anywhere!
The only requirement is reading a lot and a desire to understand how different texts "interact"
Define text. You can apply literary criticism to the location of streetlights. The whole world is a "text".
This is correct. The entire world is a text. Thanks, postmodernism.
We're allowing into the arena ever-greater things, like race and gender. This is necessary so eventually we can repoliticize notions such as capitalism and property and even just by doing so, like Milton's Satan, find comfort in knowing that our descendants will live in a world where The Authority was questioned, and thus irrevocably broken in a symbolic way
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Deconstruct doesn't have to refer to Derrida or post structural whatevers.
It can just mean "to disassemble or break down."
I mean we already have analyze, but that's a more positive synonym
I am not interested in fighting about my misapplying a word.
I just wanted to clarify if Podly understood what I was trying to say, or if my misusing this word was so confusing that it ruined my whole post.
If that happened, I can try to clarify.
If this is just LOL THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT MEANS U R DUMB
I have zero interest in entertaining that.
I am not defending the position of these authors (like 8 of them so far) who wrote essays about the novel being racist.
But I felt it important to say that these people didn't post essays written in crayon, these are serious academic essays that got published and peer reviewed.
I'm glad that their view isn't completely dominant (as it would seem to be from the essays that are available to me) but I that doesn't mean these people are idiots or wrote bad essays. These essays are carefully constructed, researched with way more sources than I'm going to use, and basically thoughtful.
You can have a meticulously researched well-written paper that also happens to be completely wrong.
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Depending on whether I can read your address properly, I am sending you something.
Man.
I'm really starting to get my feelings hurt that everyone here thinks I'm just really, really, really dumb.
I'll stop talking about school.
I would spend the afternoon watching more Hey Ash Watcha Playin' but those damn ads on gametrailers have got to me
Well, then you get into a similar problem as with education, where the results matter as much (or more) on the characteristics of the customer as they do on the effort or techniques of the professional. You start paying providers based on results and the only providers who treat the elderly, the poor, the mentally ill, and the obese are the providers who are doing it out of some internal moral compass.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Discuss.
I put one new application in
Part of this week I spent volunteering at a nonprofit putting out an amicus brief
Every job posting I look at comes with a whisper "you're not qualified our they'll never hire you"
I've been to a couple networking type things
This is why we should be encouraging Nurse Practitioners and making them more viable as a GP replacement.
Truth be told, I am not super well versed in criticism. I think the sprinkling I have is useful, but I don't want anymore exposure. All criticism is observation, privilege, and patterning. All of it. I know how to do that. I know how to find interesting things in texts.
No! Jeep! I was trying to help! It is not obvious if you haven't done a lot of writing and reading on this subject before!
This is what school is for!
(guess why!)
Or
or
mandate
Theoretically, anybody could do it anywhere!
The only requirement is reading a lot and a desire to understand how different texts "interact"
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
In the Netherlands everyone in the chain makes a profit if an action is taken by the hospital, except the government and/or next years rates. There's just way to little incentive in the opposite direction.
One thing I really want out is a per procedure profit for specialists. The primary decisionmaker should not be able to get more money if he takes decision A vs decision B.
you are v smart and funny and seem like a nice dude
you like the ladies and the ladies like you back
you've done enough Ketamine that your nickname is l'il sebastian
if you had a vagina I would have sex with you
Define text. You can apply literary criticism to the location of streetlights. The whole world is a "text".
It's important to stick with it and kind of muscle through the bleakness. Try to treat looking for work as a job, is what they say to do. Create a routine out of it.
because doctor = better
FOR THE WEEK
CATCH YOU ON THE FLIP SIDE BONERS
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Hello again [chat].
I have acquired a laptop cable.
I will get home with moar wine and we will have a good time tonight.
:winky:
you should never let a job posting convince you you're not qualified for it
people put the weirdest shit in their requirements and they don't mean half of it usually
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
The NHS is pretty keen on telling people straight that they are not getting a particular treatment because they don't need it.
There are plenty of stories of UK trained doctors working in other countries experiencing a fair degree of culture shock on attempting that.
This doesn't make sense and I'm not sure if it's because I'm not understanding you, or because you're unclear on how US hospitals operate, or because you know something I don't, or because you're not talking about the US here.
A hospital may decide to close their ED due to budget constraints; this does not result in the closure of the hospital.
And in fact one of the major problems facing the US right now is ED closures.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
also I'm not unconvinced that senj is not the spawn from a threeway Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Steve McQeen had in Shanghai
This is correct. The entire world is a text. Thanks, postmodernism.
hey
Project Trinity is still classified
No longer shall people judge me for admiring Flex Mentallo's hairy opulence or Nicki Minaj's omnipresent pink locks.
this has been another episode of "hiring managers don't know what the fuck"
Na na nana
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
We would like you to have done this exact same job for ten years but somehow now want to take a pay cut
mandating on an individual level is bad times and we shouldn't go there
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
so I've got a half a pot of coffee
and I've got a big bottle of bailey's
supposed to meet homegirl's friends tonight that I haven't seen since like sophomore year of college
THEY'RE GONNA LOVE THE PODLY THEY GET AWWWWW YEAH!
have you seen the chin
kirk douglass was definitely involved, if only in a fluffing capacity
We're allowing into the arena ever-greater things, like race and gender. This is necessary so eventually we can repoliticize notions such as capitalism and property and even just by doing so, like Milton's Satan, find comfort in knowing that our descendants will live in a world where The Authority was questioned, and thus irrevocably broken in a symbolic way
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
You can have a meticulously researched well-written paper that also happens to be completely wrong.