The BG Health Care Thread: Decreasing the Surplus Population

[Meresgi]

[kuronosan]

Viagra's mechanism alone was designed to decrease blood pressure by acting like a vasodilator, so that's not surprising. Sex also decreases blood pressure due to decreasing levels of stress.

But of course, because this is about getting men harder dicks, it will be asked for by literally every person I talk to now.

[Meresgi]

Viagra's mechanism alone was designed to decrease blood pressure by acting like a vasodilator, so that's not surprising. Sex also decreases blood pressure due to decreasing levels of stress.

But of course, because this is about getting men harder dicks, it will be asked for by literally every person I talk to now.

I don't need a pill to get hard when you're around kuro



I had to double take that story since it's NY Post, isn't the Post the shit one?

[Andalusian girls]

ye the Post is sensationalist tabloid garbage, but they namedrop the study and its original publisher, easy enough to go investigating

[archibaldcrane]

At least we know how Bob Dole lasted so long

[synistar]

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1...259622922?s=20

For example, one screenshot is for sutures — that is, medical thread, a.k.a. stitches. Scripps’ system put the basic “cost per unit” at $19.30.

But the system said the “computed charge per unit” was $149.58. This is how much the patient and his or her insurer would be billed.

The system helpfully included a formula for reaching this amount: "$149.58 = $19.30 + ($19.30 x 675%).”

You read that right. Scripps’ automated system took the actual cost of sutures, imposed an apparently preset 675% markup and produced a billed amount that was orders of magnitude higher than the true price.

This is separate from any additional charges for the doctor, anesthesiologist, X-rays or hospital facilities.

Call it institutionalized price gouging. And it’s apparently widespread because the same or similar software is used by other hospitals nationwide, including UCLA, and around the world.

I shared the screenshots with Scripps and asked why such staggering price increases are apparently built into the hospital’s automated system.

Janice Collins, a spokesperson for the hospital, declined to answer beyond confirming that the higher amounts shown in the screenshots reflect the hospital’s “chargemaster,” the inflated list prices used for haggling with insurers.

Collins sent me a statement that characterized Scripps as a victim of circumstance, a reluctant player in a healthcare system “that was established decades ago and which is outdated.”

[kuronosan]

If they didn't bill $150, insurance wouldn't even post the $20 they cost.

I feel like enough people don't understand that how much is billed to insurance is neither what the patient pays nor the insurance company.

If I bill $300 for an evaluation, I'm not getting $300 from insurance or the patient.

[Meresgi]

If they didn't bill $150, insurance wouldn't even post the $20 they cost.

I feel like enough people don't understand that how much is billed to insurance is neither what the patient pays nor the insurance company.

If I bill $300 for an evaluation, I'm not getting $300 from insurance or the patient.

I would want to say a good chunk know that...but probably not. People just see how much having insurance is "saving" them so why would they ever want to give up insurance for healthcare for all?! It might not save them as many dollardos as insurance does!

[Andalusian girls]

we understand we just think the system is fundamentally broken and horribly inefficient

[6souls]

https://www.king5.com/article/tech/s...9-7d7e5e16c81d
https://depts.washington.edu/clinician-study/

The University of Washington's School of Medicine is conducting a study on the effect of shrooms (psilocybin) on frontline healthcare workers.

UW Medicine's Dr. Tony Back has seen it in his colleagues.

"There was a lot of witnessing people who were just dying and gasping for breath," says Back, a UW Medicine oncologist, palliative-care specialist and professor of medicine. "Also, it's one thing to be a doctor and have a patient say, 'Thanks for the recommendation. That's not for me.' It's another to have one spit at you."

Now, researchers at the UW School of Medicine want to find out if psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in "magic mushrooms," can help with severe depression in those healthcare workers.

"There’s an opportunity here to help doctors, nurses, and other clinicians who are really having a hard time now during the COVID-19 pandemic," Back said.

[kuronosan]

The answer is yes, but not because it "cures depression". It's being studied in several areas of psychedelic medicine and our region is looking into it as well.

[Guitarman]

Im terribly excited for the potential implications. Allowing a person to get out of circular thought patterns and form new, healthier patterns.

[kuronosan]

Im terribly excited for the potential implications. Allowing a person to get out of circular thought patterns and form new, healthier patterns.

Honestly I can't wait until it goes to trials here. It has amazing potential done properly. Much like ketamine, though, a lot of other things need to change as well in a patient's life. The promise of changing unhealthy patterns is unbelievably essential.

[Outlaw]

Call me old fashioned but I would rather not have the person holding the scalpel or needle, who literally has my life in their hands, to possibly be tripping balls.

[Gadritan]

Call me old fashioned but I would rather not have the person holding the scalpel or needle, who literally has my life in their hands, to possibly be tripping balls.

Yeah. Cuz they're gonna dose (not micro dose) and go to work.

Besides, it's shrooms. It's the weed of the psychedelic world. Very tame and mild compared to most.

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[kuronosan]

Call me old fashioned but I would rather not have the person holding the scalpel or needle, who literally has my life in their hands, to possibly be tripping balls.

In doses needed for depressive symptoms someone shouldn't be tripping.

[Guitarman]

Microdosing is entirely predicated on a sub-perceptual dose. You shouldn't be experiencing any effects at all. With proper prescribing and a doctor's guidance, you'd have the correct dose to not impair your ability to function. Full sized doses that induce trips would be done so in a controlled setting under a psychologists' care.

I know the situation is fluid, but last i heard the general theory was a full dose in a quiet room under the care of a trained medical professional, then the micro doses as an ongoing treatment between larger trips.

[mallister]

Now those are clinical trials I'd love to be in.

[Outlaw]

In doses needed for depressive symptoms someone shouldn't be tripping.

That's good to hear. I just don't trust people though. I picture in a decade psilocybin being the new fad to treat depression, alcoholism, etc. People's Rx will say, "Take 1 tablet in the morning with breakfast" and SOME people will take a dozen because they like the sense of euphoria.

[kuronosan]

That's good to hear. I just don't trust people though. I picture in a decade psilocybin being the new fad to treat depression, alcoholism, etc. People's Rx will say, "Take 1 tablet in the morning with breakfast" and SOME people will take a dozen because they like the sense of euphoria.

I mean that's what people do now anyway.