Ha, fair enough. But if you want to save calories, grabbing the non alcoholic alternative is actually a decent choice. (And if you want to get drunk on the least calories possible, pure gin/vodka/schnaps/white rum are your best options. Beer is reeeally energy dense.)

Alcohol has a lot of calories, so that would have to be non alcoholic as well.

Youth corrections staff is still a whole other story than doctors though. A physical examination is probably one of the most vulnerable positions one could be in. These cameras would record people getting naked, multiple orifices being examined, and patients talking about symptoms or things they are unsure and often ashamed about.

The cost would be enormous. I imagine many people would be even more reluctant to go to the doctor than they are now.

And the benefit, in my opinion, would be very slim. Medical malpractice is far more subtle than the examples from the article. As patients we’re rarely worried that our doctor will physically assault us, we’re worried about errors in judgement, delays in care, and prejudices based on gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and so on. And those aren’t directly observable most of the time. Even if you get the moment on camera where your doctor decides to trivialize your symptoms you mostly wouldn’t be able to prove it happened for discriminatory reasons.

Why doctors? Filming patients would be a nightmare in terms of privacy and data policy.

In my line of work (psychotherapy) it would be equally impossible. People are having a hard enough time as it is opening up to medical professionals, I don’t think that the additional barrier of being actively filmed would help anyone.

It doesn’t seem to work on the German Wikipedia. Super weird decision to tie display settings to a language.

You’re right, but the same must be said for July 23rd. Both are abbreviating “day in the month of july” to a simple mention of the month.

At the end of the day both work, both are equally efficient, and simply come down to habit.

Coming from somewhere with the format the other way around, we do indeed say “23rd July” without all that extra fluff. So exactly the same efficiency wise. We simply count days like we’d count other stuff. For example I definitely didn’t had my coffee fourth just now.

Ironically, behind all this is a misconception that we’re actually constantly working on with our patients. The truth is that the clinics would function better and we could offer better therapy if, for example, we weren’t so overworked and enough staff were employed. But in order to achieve this, we would have to make decisions again and again in specific cases, which are less pleasant for patients in the short term. Specifically: saying no to our employers more often, strikes, and in the worst case resignation. Sensible in the long term, unpleasant in the short term. For our patients. And that’s the crux of it.

Unfortunately it is always easier to discover those mistakes in the thinking of others. I have met dozens of colleagues who avoid fighting for better working conditions for precisely these reasons (while advising their patients to avoid this error in particular). And clinics of course know this and take advantage of it.

So better negotiation skills are really only party of the solution (although also very important). I think in the long term we need better education and more focus on socialist ideas, specifically on how and why employee rights (and the ability to self-care) are such an integral requirement to a job well done.

That’s an interesting one. As a psychotherapist from Germany I can say we’re definitely not low paid, but it is much less than other academic professions, and especially in relation to the time it takes to get qualified (roughly 10 years) and the cost of approbation itself (varies from 30k-160k, and that’s in a country where education usually is free) it’s really not a good fit for someone who is very financially motivated. (Ironically because of the high upfront cost the job tends to attract people from well endowed backgrounds though.)

I think like in many helping professions we have a majority of very idealistic people who don’t negotiate very well. Employers get away with way too much because refusal at our side at first only ever hurts the patients, so we kinda keep up with it. Maybe something similar is happening in the professions that are in my mind actually the most underpaid for their time, and that’s nursing and care work of all sorts.

Sure bud.

Well and here I thought it’s because we evil Europeans are after Ukrainians resources.

Your mental acrobatics are the funny part. I don’t want to force Ukraine to surrender, so I’m a Nazi. I mean that sounds like a totally sane take 👍

Lol

Moving the goalposts I see. Now that your opinion is out in the open and so obviously baseless, suddenly it’s not about harm reduction anymore, no, the Ukrainians are actually the bad guys.

Hit me up when you have an actual opinion to discuss and are willing to stick to your story. Because this is a waste of time.

I don’t know why you did not have the guts to say it, but you very obviously didn’t. That’s why I said it for you.

I’m just glad you’re such a minority. After all with your mindset the Allies would have left the world to the Nazis in the 1940s and the thousand-year Reich would have been realized.

That is the reality of your attitude.

You don’t have the guts to say it, do you? You want Ukraine to SURRENDER.

We have a word for people who kneel before fascists. How fortunate that such small-minded people don’t determine the fate of the world.

But what should they do? Like actually, right now?

Seriously if you can’t even manage to formulate your opinion clearly there’s no point in taking you seriously. Either you already know how stupid your opinion is or you’re just trolling.

So what do you want Ukraine to do?

It’s easy hiding behind passive-aggressive rhetoric. I’ve yet to see you actually argue in favor of anything.

Again, if I assume you’re a sane adult it still sound to me like you’re asking the west to do even more.

Another way to read this would be if you’d claim the adequate response to fascist warfare is to instantly surrender and give the aggressor whatever they want - which would obviously completely ridiculous.

So enlighten me, which one is it?

Well, sounds like we should help Ukraine even more, since Russia’s idea of peace negotiations can be summed up as “lol just give up”.

I mean certainly that’s what you’re advocating for here, right? Better support for Ukraine to survive the war of aggression, which, as we established, is Russias fault and entirely reprehensible.