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I am not a doctor.Θα χρησιμοποιήσω αυτά τα διαιτητικά σχήματα που θα ωφελήσουν τους ασθενείς μου σύμφωνα με τη μεγαλύτερη δυνατή ικανότητα και κρίση μου, και δεν θα κάνω κακό ή αδικία σε αυτούς. https://t.co/ZfECEeILPW
This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.I am not a doctor, I am not a lawyer.For educational purposes only.Unauthorized use is prohibited.https://t.co/mdMCf1QSV2
Delusions of Grandeur? What's that?https://t.co/bEwOV4huVf
"During therapy, grandiose delusions were linked to patients' underlying beliefs by using inference chaining [...] the patient is asked repeatedly [...] explain [the] jumps in thought from one subject to a completely different one." https://t.co/ksCasVmf1Mhttps://t.co/XMIGHnFSh5
My memex (twitter) is an attempt to express what I see and take you on a journey thru thought linkages and try to illuminate the divergence between what I see as possible vs what is real.https://t.co/t4qsdjj6O5
A doctor describing the challenges they face."Which leads us to the endless paperwork and meetings needed in order to get that support. [...] While I’m grateful that the support is there, the barriers to it are real."https://t.co/onbCuBNS8Dhttps://t.co/mFzQrmXBD6
TL;DR: why paperwork makes me suicidal now.I specifically asked to get paid below amt necessary to file taxes because paperwork makes me want to die.My emergency plans involve living in woods / going homeless. Its easier than getting help.https://t.co/Jlqcbfocu5
I don't even have a formal degree despite passing 4 years of coursework in computer engineering (which, at my school, meant associates level skills in electronics)Turns out they don't give you a piece of paper if you can't get all your loans squared up to pay the school, lol.
I was arguing with a DNP about weening my GF from a bad medication. They were using how they went to a conference in London; argumentum ad verecundiam. Found out after fact that, at the time, the person who did the keynote speech was following me on here.https://t.co/viDJNXEeCn
I can't talk to practicing doctors anymore. I'm sure somewhere out there is one who actually knows what Bayesian reasoning is, and might have an idea of what I mean by causal modeling. But most of them think of genetics as a game of dice.https://t.co/qMRVFGJmlK
Not being able to get on disability has changed my plans. And after all this time seeing how insipidly ignorant some doctors are, I no longer value someone's credentials. It tells me nothing about the quality of their ideas. I will never get a degree.https://t.co/aHFezJ2cNW
I can respect someone who's spent time to go thru the processes, and I understand the value. There are certainly people who's ideas I trust whom have achieved a high level of credentials. But for every one I find, I see 100 more who are naively regurgitating wrote knowledge.
There are also aspects of credentialism that I see as valuable. Certifying someone knows basics in biochem + lab safety, ethics/welfare, and that proper steps are taken while doing experiments? Seems wise! But many are little more than security theatre & bureaucratic run around.
The only thing that I think seems worth while at this point is if I were to go after a PE. That one seems rigorous enough to signal competence. But even then, I don't plan on working in any field that requires anything close to that. So meh.
I think the answer for anything that has red-tape is for me to act as a consultant of an otherwise larger initiative. Things like IRB review can be covered by someone who's got an appetite for the process. But in the meantime my focus is on N-of-1 designs and Citizen Science.
Ultimately if we're talking about this in terms of risk to the general public, most of what I'm doing seems sheltered enough from that. I don't think anybody else is in a better position to judge personal risks than myself. It'd be a diff story if I was experimenting on others.
I also recognize I'm in a particularly biased position. I was the first in my fam to get access to higher ed & I see this credentialism as particularly pervasive form of gatekeeping. The federal program (TRiO) that helped me is consistently attacked.IMHO: We can do better.
My first year in college was $8,000. All full time professors. Well funded clubs. A student lounge on every floor.My last year in college was $13,000. Many professors were part-time or adjunct. Student lounges had 5+ people in them.https://t.co/ATur9Wc8PP
I don't recommend my college to anyone. It's not the same."isn't worth saving"https://t.co/QbUymtKq4l
If I was offered an opportunity to go back to college for something I was interested in (and my sleep schedule cooperated with it). I think I'd still go. But I would be very selective on what courses I took and not waste my time with bullshit teachers & make-work.
Stop caring about a piece of paper or hitting some arbitrary milestones decided by a board of directors trying to appease donators & industry. That's a game. They wanna look good and attract parents and sell prestige. This sets up a poor incentive alignment.
I can't really count the number of classes we had at Vermont tech where we spent hours and hours preparing for publics speaking and presentations. We were required to do 1. Each class had one. Mindlessly following a dictum from on high.
Jumping thru some arbitrary hoop of required course, that were only required because of some focus group with industry decided that "communication skills" were important. So instead of actually, you know, teaching those skills, we were thought how to write Memos.
If I had to do it all over again, I'd just skip required courses that were only there to appease some accreditation requirement or some bullshit metric. These were being done b/c the school needed them, not that I needed them.I look back and think about how much time I wasted.
I can actually go thru and calculate how much money I wasted on these courses, and by extension how much time I just threw away. Credits were calculated by how many hours you had your ass in a seat, not by learning outcomes. The whole thing reeks of institutional charades.
If I add these coures up and assume that these could be compressed down with some reasonable algorithm (scheduling is 'NP-hard'), I can compress my housing costs down to a third as well.But then I wouldn't meet those credit-hour reqs for a piece of paper!Its a tragic waste.
I learned a lot at college and I do value my time there, but for much of this is *in spite of* the environment, not because of it. Nearly every positive experience I had ended up being eventually systematically removed thru some kind of management shenanigan or structural change.
There is value in education. I am the last person in the world to speak against that. But there's a huge gap b/w learning something and being 'educated'. I hope to see a world where more people are given opportunities to avoid the credentialism trap.https://t.co/mczTqNspoN
I have no idea what I'm doing.https://t.co/j2auEknTRP
I think smell is important.https://t.co/D2tylJvgpv
And I am good at the google.https://t.co/clQdxr1JV4
I am not a doctor.https://t.co/eQMyorTEck
"Amber began mocking and tormenting him. She also reminded House that every option would be terrible for him: Schizophrenia meant that he could never work again as a physician, while Multiple Sclerosis or stopping Vicodin would cause him severe pain."https://t.co/zKWh1Cz5rn
I want to be a "naturalpath" that grows their own herbs on a regenerative farmhttps://t.co/o38GoAymlEhttps://t.co/g8MyRrAxcL
A hypocrite~ "A doctor’s aim, Hippocrates argues, should be to push medicine forward, taking what has already been discovered and improving it further, to advance The Art" https://t.co/UX9zIqZZPs