On dealing with a lot of patients, and different types of patients:
"Some doctors struggle with the EQ required to see 20-40 patients a day and correctly read the room with how smart the person is, how detailed an answer they WANT to hear, and how paternalist or partnership-minded they want you to be.
There are probably 12 to 15 different ways I approach explaining heart failure to a patient depending on how the patient and family communicate with me in the preceding days or minutes to that conversation"
On why your doctor won't give you a probability:
"Some of the factors that I regularly see limit people getting specifics are: 1. Meeting the person 5 minutes before and simply reading the above factors wrong 2. Laziness or the heuristic of just doing it the same way every time and giving vague cookie cutter answers 3. The perception that giving too many specifics will be used against them - countless times, almost every other day, someone says "well Dr. X said it was an 80% chance I'd recover by now" 4. Not knowing the answer to the specific question and either not having the time or being too prideful to just look up the stat in the moment
An honest assessment of doctors i know who are probably guilty if this is probably 2>4>1>3"
I don't really want to spend tons of time talking about Hasan. So I'm going to make this one long thread and then, god willing, hopefully not have to talk about it for a while.
But it is plainly obvious to anyone with eyes that Piker is an ideological authoritarian.
Hasan spends an astonishing amount of time defending authoritarian regimes, apologizing for them, running cover for them, promoting them, parroting their propaganda, and more. There are dozens of examples of this.
Let's start with what Piker has to say about China.
I'm in @thedispatch today, with a piece about how Renee Good is not going to be the last person ICE kills, because this wasn't a freak accident - it was the culmination of a persistent, ongoing pattern.
(gift link below)
Renee Good's death was a predictable tragedy. ICE routinely escalates to violence at the first excuse. It's an agency filled with substandard officers and given political cover from on high.
Renee Good, or someone like her, was bound to die.