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andrewducker) wrote2023-09-13 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 13-09-2023
- 1. Loughborough University student's device detects sport concussions in 10 seconds
- (tags:brain injury Technology )
- 2. Inside Russia's undercover crackdown on gay men in Chechnya
- (tags:lgbt russia OhForFucksSake torture homosexuality )
- 3. One in three female surgeons have been sexually assaulted at work in the last five years.
- (tags:doctors abuse assault OhForFucksSake women uk )
- 4. Note: attempting to get rid of sunken explosives by dropping explosives on them, while moored directly above, is not a good idea
- (tags:explosions history ships ocean viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. Everyone in America is getting a Covid booster (unlike the UK, where it's only the very old)
- (tags:USA vaccination Pandemic )
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I hope that this report helps to change things.
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So if I were going to pick an industry that would be slow to change surgery would be on my list.
At least, judging by the conversations I've heard medics have with each other.
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I'm going to note wrt. surgeons and sexual assault that (a) there's reputedly a higher than normal rate of psychopathy among surgical specialities -- having low empathy can be an asset when your job involves cutting people up -- and (b) surgery is an artisanal specialty: surgeons take years to train, are minimally interchangeable, and skill/experience makes a profound difference to outcomes.
So (b) means there's intense pressure on management to put up with asshole rock stars, and (a) means you're more likely to get predatory/assholish behavior.
(Finally, there's the subsequent reporting that most medical students get zero training on sexual harassment in the workplace and how to deal with it. Which doesn't just affect surgeons, but almost all medical staff.)
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And also possible that there are lower levels of empathy because shitty behaviour by some has driven out anyone with a shred of humanity left in them.
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The systematic use of sleep deprivation and acute stress is central to the process of training (and selecting by elimination) junior doctors in teaching hospitals.
It's remarkably effective in eliminating empathy.
We observe this in other professions - law, banking, and the larger accountancy firms - where 'the last man standing' from the graduate intake acquires a grisly collection of adaptive psychoses and a distinctive management style which generates profits (and further career advancement) by burning people out.
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That's another good point.
(I'm going to say nothing about how front-line military service generate stress and induce severe sleep deprivation: the implications should be obvious.)
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(5) is very annoying and rather wtf.
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It makes sense to vaccinate everyone because
a) everyone, even healthy people in their 20s and 30s, can suffer long-COVID, increased rate of stroke, increased rate of heart disease
b) having a large % of vaccinated people in the community acts as a "ring" of protection around medically high risk people because it helps cut down on transmission
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Headline's misleading. CDC has said it's recommended for anyone over 6 months. If the shots aren't covered by private health insurance or medicare, retail price is around $100 per dose. CDC has stated that they'll work with communities to provide free or low-cost doses to help transition because the federal emergency is "over."
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As far as I know, it’s impossible to get a COVID jab in the UK (even privately) unless you are in an NHS approved category.
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No, you can't.
Although the Tories did hint that they're going to let patients pay for a booster privately within the next year.
Which is utterly shitty and offensive but I'm going to be queuing up and yelling take my money the instant it's available ...
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And of course I'd pay too. Anyone with the cash to spare would. I've had COVID (once) and even though it was mild (likely because I'd had 3 shots, but not one for 9 months) it wasn't something I want to repeat if it's at all avoidable.
If vaccination everyone is not being done for "the looks", because it makes it obvious that COVID isn't "over" or "nothing to worry about" then that's both illogical and despicable.
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The problem is that the government has agreed (with itself) that "the pandemic's over". So rolling out boosters would be a tacit admission that they were wrong, and if they're wrong about something as screamingly important as "plague's over, people", what else could they be called out over?
They're only bothering with the crumblies and clinically vulnerable because if they didn't a whole lot of people would certainly die at great expense, clogging up ICUs for weeks on their way out. Somebody might notice.
Remember, the current government is a bunch of cynical asset-strippers and neoliberal ideologues as deeoly stupid as Liz Truss. And there's not a scientist among 'em. (I can't help thinking that even Thatcher would have been better at handling this crisis than the post 2019 shower.)
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Everyone seems to exclude the uninsured, because if you still don't have insurance you probably also don't have $130 for a shot.
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Only 17% of Americans got the last booster, so it's not likely to be a much higher percentage for this one. I am glad we will have the opportunity to get it though.
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Polls I've seen suggest that it'll be higher this time around, but with an even sharper blue/red divide in whether people plan to get it.
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