2016 USA Presidential election thread I: The warm-up

[archibaldcrane]

That's the New Yorker's satire section.

and we've taken an interesting turn

[kuronosan]

It's a shame, as he's otherwise a pretty intelligent neurologist.

[Quicklet]

An intelligent neurologist who apparently forgets to remove sponges from his patients' brains on occasion.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.2388847

[kuronosan]

An intelligent neurologist who apparently forgets to remove sponges from his patients' brains on occasion.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.2388847

Oh.


Ohhhhhhh.

Ugh.

[archibaldcrane]

Is 6 malpractice suits over 30 years a lot for a neurosurgeon?

(serious question, I don't know)

[mallister]

I can't comment on the rest of the stuff there, but leaving gauze, sponges and even sometimes instruments in patients is disturbingly common. over the years they have developed strict protocols on keeping track of this, but it is something you'd figure would have been cracked down on a long time ago.

We even have RF tagged gauze/sponges now and special equipment in the OR and labor suites to scan you before they start to close and be sure you don't have any odds and ends left in you.

[kuronosan]

Is 6 malpractice suits over 30 years a lot for a neurosurgeon?

(serious question, I don't know)

No.

[Andalusian girls]

Is 6 malpractice suits over 30 years a lot for a neurosurgeon?

(serious question, I don't know)

no

A report released today by the New England Journal of Medicine bears this out. It finds that in a given year, 7.4% of doctors (on average) get sued by patients, but only 20% of those claims (on average) result in some sort of payment.

So, which doctors were most likely to be sued? Neurosurgeons topped the list, with 19.1% of them facing a claim each year. They were followed by thoracic-cardiovascular surgeons (18.9%) and general surgery (15.3%).

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug...ialty-20110817

[archibaldcrane]

So about average then.

[archibaldcrane]

Can we get Ben Carson to quote some Pokemon or something? I like my black republicans a little more...wacky.

[archibaldcrane]

Hilldog knifes Brobama in the back by coming out against the TPP.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hilla...rride=facebook

[Tyche]

Have you guys seen Biden in debates? He fucking kills it. How could you think he'd falter in debates? Sure, he's derisive, but the dude drops facts that reminds me of old school (Bill) Clinton. He doesn't let bullshit pass. The dude laughed Paul Ryan off the podium, but fuck man, he deserved it. He combines a credibility and likeableness that the American people can relate to that I think Bernie and Hillary doesn't have. And I'm pretty sure he just doesn't give a fuck anymore. It might reflect poorly in the primaries, but I think he'd kill in the general.

[Salodin]

Yeah, I don't know what they were talking about. He was my favorite debater last election cycle. The worst criticism he got was he smiled and laughed too much...I mean really? Dude just releases pheromones through the tv to make us love him, and while he probably isn't the best choice for candidate, that has no bearing on how well he'd do if he ran.

[thetruepandagod]

I genuinely had no idea people liked Biden, I can't even relate this level of shock to anything off the top of my head.

[Byrthnoth]

I am from Delaware, so I am biased, but Biden is probably my favorite "have a beer with" politician. Honestly, he might also make the best president out of everyone running right now. The entire Republican field is a walking punchline in want of a joke. Sanders will only be able to implement his ideas through presidential orders. Clinton seems too likely to roll over for big business. Biden would be more of the same halting, shackled by Congress, progress.

[Serra]

Biden would be more of the same halting, shackled by Congress, progress.

Not necessarily. One of the criticisms against Obama is that he didn't spend enough time in Washington before becoming President -- that he was only a Senator for three years and didn't have time to cultivate a lot of those bonds with members of both parties. I think CNN had an article which touched on this within the context of a concern with Rubio last week(?). Biden was a Senator since the early 70s, so he should have a lot more of those bonds to actually get things done.

[Byrthnoth]

In the current Congressional climate, I don't know that being bros with the opposition is necessarily going to make things very much easier. It might help the opposition trust him in situations where they're doing some informal deal, so it's probably worth something, but I don't think it will necessarily tone down the rhetoric. I do super like Biden, though, and would vote for him hands down in the next election even if it was revealed that he secretly kills babies to maintain his twinkly-eyed smile.

Biden is also very good at taking serious political problems and distilling them down so anyone can understand them. On the Late Show, for instance, he had a bit of a tirade about people in Washington who don't vote according to their beliefs. It was an emotional appeal to the audience, but the reality is that he hit upon a key problem in modern congressional politics. In our Democratic Republic, constituents are supposed elect a highly qualified representative who will make the right decision for their constituency after looking at all the data. Instead, it has become constituents electing officials who will vote the way the constituents would vote given the publicly available information and the constituents' education levels. That's not the point, and that's not how it's supposed to work.

[notorious bum]

Old people love Biden, a bit more than Clinton, but Bernie's got that 18-30's demographic locked-up in the long run. Been away from the Bern-notice updates, but last I saw him only 12 points behind Hillary in Cali, gaining fast, especially in minority vote.

[Sho]

Hooooooooooly shit. McCarthy dropped out of the Speaker race, just broke on CNN. Speaker election postponed.

Dude almost literally had it in his back pocket. No fucking clue what's going on, lol. Guessing the Freedom Caucus would have given him trouble or he honestly believed he wouldn't have been able to control his crazy hyper right base.

[Serra]

He had it in his pocket till last week when he made comments which made it sound like the Benghazi hearings were completely a political move to hurt Hilldog during the presidential race.