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Warp ½, Mr. Sulu!
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I think it is a combo.
Why would we need a 5g network? Wasn’t a 3g network enough? They clearly invented this to activate microchips, aka the mark of the beast.
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3g only zombifies the gullible and easily-controlled 60% of the population. To complete the plans for world domination, it is necessary to control the more intelligent and strong-willed 40% (you and me, for example), and so 5g was developed.
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I was zombified way back by TDMA.
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I warned Samuel Morse about those Satanic wires and their corpse-reanimating emanations
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Nobody paid attention. Marconi invented the wireless telegraph and now we have COVID! Open UP YOUR EYES !!!111!1!ONZE!11
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So you’re not even one of the more effective zombies? Condolences.
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“The editor-in-chief of a weekly report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told House Democrats that she was ordered to destroy an email showing that Trump political appointees attempted to interfere with its publication — and that she believes the order came from Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the agency’s director.” NYTimes
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And then there is this:
Hopeful, yes?
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What is your read on the AMA’s temperature for increasing the total number of physician training slots in med schools and reduction of (especially residents and fellows) work hours? That has historically been the biggest barrier to reducing physician stress levels.
Only if there is room for all the qualified candidates in med school.
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The AMA has historically been torn between advocating for docs and advocating for public health. On the training slot front, they have had a position to keep them pretty lean so the demand stays high. The issue here, though, (as I see it, to be fair) has more to do with the increase in debt load vs specialty choice. Primary care is always the lowest paid field, and the one that is taking a big hit in this pandemic. It is hard to justify taking on $250-300k in student debt to get a job making $125-150k, when for the same investment you can go into dermatology, cardiology or any other subspecialty and make 3-4 times that. For a few more years, you can go into a surgical subspecialty like ophthalmology or orthopedics and clear $1mill. No, it’s not all about money, as I said, I love what I do, but the incentive structure pushes folks staggering under mountains of debt into fields where they can get it paid off as quickly as possible and start a life. Just to be clear, I am not a member of the AMA, I have not been pleased with some of the positions they have taken and do not speak for them in any way, shape or form.
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Stanford reported getting 11,000 applications for 90 seats
Boston University School of Medicine got 12,024 for about 110 seats
That’s an increase of 50% and 27% respectively over previous years, which seems to indicate a huge problem in our system. Edit to clarify that the fact there are so many applicants and so few spots even in less freakish years seems like a failing on our part.
Thank you to all the HCWs out there! I wish there were more of you to share the burden. 
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We’re definitely drifting into conspiracy theories that I’d happily work to cover up.
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$500,000 of college debt for you, $500,000 of college debt for you, $500,000 of college debt for everyone!
Heh, just got to this comment.
If only there were some way to deal with that college debt issue! Alas, there isn’t, I mean how are we going to pay for jet fighters that can’t fly in rain, I mean college tuition for all? Also, if we did we’d just create a nation of dependency, instead of hardworking people like me who paid for school by washing dishes in the summer.
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I am sorry. My bad.
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Thank you! I had forgotten about the specialty/sub specialty vs generalist balance. You would think that would be handled through limitations in residency & fellowship slots, but the big teaching hospitals have generally expanded their sub specialty fellowship programs, not decreased them.
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It’s even worse than that, at least in peds. Now the general peds residencies (at least in some places) have developed a community peds track and a hospitalist peds track, taking the same number of residents and essentially turning out half as many outpatient-qualified docs. I guess, I have to point out that when I was doing it there was really no such thing as “in-patient pediatrics” as a specialty, because the community docs covered the hospitals. No more. And the hospitalists also make a buttload more than we do, so we have not been able to recruit any new docs in years. Our youngest is 48, our oldest is me.(56) We have younger nurse practitioners, and that is probably where the whole field is going. Adult docs are in even worse shape. We have lost 5 adult docs in the last 18 months or so in my community with no one new coming in. SMH, I just don’t know where it goes.
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