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• On the post: Rethinking Healthcare… Completely

  

  wto605 ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2006 @ 07:40pm

  Re: Way to completely miss the real issues

  Actually... that's medicine's fault...
  
  If we just let everyone who smoked die from lug diseases people wouldn't smoke. If we didn't have liposuction and gastric bypass surgery people wouldn't eat as much. Medicine is being an enabler to the disgusting lifestyles of Americans. Sure... they won't live as long... but with medicine that difference is down to no more than 10 years (and even that's being generous).
  
  Besides... what do you care? they're going to be in your office/hospital/practice more than anyone else and paying you. It's their money their body... if they want to squander away their life's work and earnings to keep themselves alive because they don't want to stop eating its up to them.
  
  I agree its terrible but judging by the trends in society and government's policies Americans are not only very insecure but we are very arrogant and expect everything to adapt to us. (can anyone say metric system?) We're going to keep on doing what we do and make everything else fix it for us... including our personal health.
  
  In conclusion/summary: It's a capitalist market... these people are willing to pay extra for health costs to maintain their lifestyle and companies are more than willing to make money off of this market. It's better than communism... you don't have enough food to make your self obese.

• On the post: Rethinking Healthcare… Completely

  

  wto605 ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2006 @ 07:19pm

  Re: The Power of Ignorance

  Except that that isn't prevention?
  
  In terms of cancer prevention means correcting genetic errors that already exist so that the deadly combinations can never be formed. The only true prevention we have in medicine is the elimination of various diseases such as small pox. We've literally killed it, and that's the only disease that is "prevented". Vaccines come close, but even then that's technically treating the disease before the actual malignant viruss attack the body. With the vaccine the body still believes it is being attacked and is "treating" against the vaccine (which, by the duck test, is the virus except that it doesn't have any genetic material to cause ailments) so that it's ready for the real virus. Screening programs are still treatment, It's just that you treat the ailment before it is a threat and/or symptoms arise.
  
  I may be a tech type but there are 3 RN's 2 LNHA's and a Doctor in the family... don't go telling me I don't know anything about medicine.
  
  By the way... nice projection (don't be ignorant, look it up. Hint: You're looking for the psychological term which is used in literature analysis.)
  
  On second thoughts... http://www.heretical.com/sexsci/bpsychol.html
  Scroll down... sections 2a and 2b (mostly 2a)
  
  To Mike/Tech Dirt: Great post... I've definitely got some reading to do now!

• On the post: Passengers With Dell Laptops Get Special Airline Treatment

  

  wto605 ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2006 @ 07:56am

  Re:

  So true... Continental hasn't let anyone plug in their battery for a while now... (of course very few people ever use them anyway)

• On the post: Punishing Success: Early Digital Music Player Inventor Wants In On iPod Profits

  

  wto605 ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2006 @ 05:00pm

  Why Apple

  As much as I hate apple I can't help noticing that this guy didn't even flinch when Creative commanded the entire MP3 player market (granted it was a niche) for almost 5 years before the iPod came out. Apparently their profits weren't enough to sue about?