Recent content by nobody's prefect_sl

Well, the businesses use marketing to create needs. And it's been well researched in marketing that even when we think we haven't been influenced by marketing, we've been influenced by marketing. Chilling stuff. Yeah, I'm pretty much in opposition to marketing existing in the world. Creates...

When I worked in a hospital, my colleague got shit spat on him. Yup, the patient, not content with slathering themselves in shit all over, had hidden shit in their mouth just in case we'd restrain her arms. Thing is, here in Finland the patients that can afford private health care are well-off...

Right, but Ibelievea more important incentive than money would be choosing to live like good doctor, or that your colleagues think you a good doctor. edit: found some empirical studies. 'job satisfaction was more frequently associated with achievement, recognition, characteristics of the...

Just a really quick reply. None of the nurses and doctors I personally know need pecuniary incentives to work hard. Sure, they need money like everybody else (until the coming of the glorious barter economy :P ) but it's a severe mischaracterisation of the typical nurse or doctor to say that...

It's about ethics in health care. I was not talking about hitman. No, wait, I was talking about hitman. Never said nurses are physicians nor that all physicians and nurses working in private sector were greedy. Just that greedy nurses would likely work in private sector, because the salaries...

I went over some papers in healthcare and economics and it looks like it's a much more complex subject than I thought. I don't think the fundamental tension between caring for patients vs. marketing to stimulate demand goes away, but I admit I completely overlooked the inefficiencies that result...

Naah. Some of them are probably greedy. I do think it's more admirable (andmorallymore worthy) to work underpaid and overworked in the public sector and more admirable still to join the Red Cross and work pro bono in Africa. Or in the USA helping the disadvantaged. If you're a greedy individual...

So you did not read my posts? Where I think out loud on the merits of going to med school? The point was to show the conflict of interest between a private health care provider and the patient, not to discuss how to treat something, but quick googling gave...

English, motherfucker. Do you read it? Do you have any idea how diagnosing and treatment works? If I sprain my wrist while playing golf, I do not, medically speaking, need a MRI or CT scan. Yet you can bet that any private provider would be extremely happy to slap on X-Rays and ultrasound, too...

So there's a physician deficit in the US as well? Guess that's what is to be expected what with the advances in diagnosing and treatments, eh? Sorry to hear about your wife's difficulties in job seeking. I'm remembering that money spent in therapy and counseling is money saved several times over...

1) the free market only exists as an idea. 2) even if it did, that's nonsense. Look at the discussion of dessert. Just as a really, really, short overview of Rawls' objection to dessert: 1) we see that people who prosper generally share characteristics, right? Able to put off satisfaction...

The vast majority of nurses (83%) DO work in the public sector. Maybe I should've called the few who work private sector 'normal people' and the vast majority who do not 'morally exceptional, altruistic and admirable' because they damn straight are. Nurses rock. (Brad image here) I don't know...

I'll reply to this in a little more depth. The flippant answer is, of course, routinely acting out of greed, same as any other person. More specifically to nursing and Finland, though: absolute majority of all (health) care given in Finland is paid for by the taxpayer. All nurses have been...

The reason I'm currently somewhat meh about going for a doctorate in philosophy of law is the begging for grants. I really, reallyreallyreally, like knowing how much and when I'll have money coming in. (yep, a flawless victory for working in public sector health care, again.) And it's not...

Edit: thanks mates, different perspectives indeed. Just what I hoped for! Vanderhoof: so you're saying you shoulda gone for melee DPS instead of ranged psi-CC? I'm thinking forensic psychiatry. (Here, it means your patients are prisoners and those whose mental state precludes culpability...