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Kognito simulations "allows PCPs to learn through role-play conversations with emotionally responsive virtual patients how to build trust, collaborate on a treatment plan, and address the patient's request for antibiotics." Except for this pitch, it'd be simulations for #opioids.
Also from LinkedIn: "Ron was the Co-Founder, CEO, and Chief Simulation Strategist of Kognito, a virtual human health simulation company acquired by Blackstone Private Equity."
Blackstone Private Equity: "As of 2020, the company's total assets under management were approximately US$619 billion."
You know what? I DID ALMOST DIE. Everything is NOT fine. I still cant get essentials for my family. I am still in shock and trying to process what we are STILL going through. Dont DM my FRIENDS to talk shit about me. More than just meds went wrong, EVERYTHING DID. #Austin
I havent had much of a chance to write anything about it yet because I'm STILL IN THE MIDST OF AN EMERGENCY and I'm still processing all of this. I also havent taken charity so I dont see HOW you think you're entitled to tell me how I should or shouldnt respond.
Are we seeing a version of Milgram's experiment play out on patients because "experts," who never treat physical injuries or illnesses, told our government that it's almost never appropriate to relieve pain with medicine? Do we blindly follow "experts"?
Do we blindly follow them even when they provide absolutely no scientific evidence? All signs point to yes. We saw addiction psychiatrists with fringe views attempt to convince the FDA to implement dosage caps for medicines but they failed to provide evidence & were refused.
It appears they were attempting to use a government agency to implement a policy that wasn't supported by evidence. The group didn't give up. They subsequently got involved with a CDC workgroup on the development of a "guideline" for prescribing pain medicines.
Addiction Psychiatrist, A. Kolodny has repeatedly made this claim (and others which are just as outrageous), but hasn't provided evidence to support them. To continue naturalizing this claim with no evidence not only confuses the public, it is also patently false. See thread.
To further prove my point, multiple studies had been done before these claims became part of the popular narrative, and after. When the evidence continually debunks a claim, it needs to stop being repeated ad infinitum, i.e., naturalized. Please stop normalizing this.
“less than 1% of chronic pain patients without a history of substance abuse problems became addicted to opioids during treatment.”
You shouldn't seek to prove your hypotheses right. *If you're a scientist, you should only seek to prove them wrong.* This is widely accepted & has been naturalized long enough to be normative. So WHAT are we doing to pain patients?
It appears a twisted form of methodological skepticism is being forced on us. #Patients are routinely told by psychologists, who don't treat physical diseases or injuries, that the psychologists' & drs' Cartesian doubt about a patients' subjective knowledge of their OWN ...
physical experience, is a MEDICAL TREATMENT. What do I mean?
Translation: Patients must simply accept that pain is inherently in one's own mind because perceptions of one's own sensory in/output are interpreted by the brain via electrical impulses. "I think therefore I am."
.@austinenergy I have to hand it to you, once again. Now you're double billing me and claim you can't refund the money you took out of my account (without my permission) when RENT is due. You've taken over $600 from a disabled single mother that PAID her bill EARLY...
But my voluntary payment wasn't enough for your company, you took another $374 out of my account AFTER I paid you early and now refuse to refund it so I can pay my rent and have a couple hundred to LIVE ON for the next two weeks. Thank you for putting my living situation in peril
This, after sending an email to customers claiming you're 'helping' people through #COVID19 by 'working with struggling customers.' Well, I AM A STRUGGLING CUSTOMER and I received no substantial help or solutions to my dilemma of not being able to pay my rent...