Yes, Peer Review is a scam. Basically it means that your paper does not disagree with the current dogma. Not much different from the social media censorship of "unacceptable ideas". Add to that that about half of all medical papers have fraudulent data (this from editors of top journals) and you see where we are. BTW, most of the real ad…
Yes, Peer Review is a scam. Basically it means that your paper does not disagree with the current dogma. Not much different from the social media censorship of "unacceptable ideas". Add to that that about half of all medical papers have fraudulent data (this from editors of top journals) and you see where we are. BTW, most of the real advances in medicine are "disruptive", that is they go against the current paradigm. It takes decades for the true breakthroughs to be accepted.
Yes I know this content. I tell patients a lab test is not a disease. If you do enough testing you find false positives (especially when the disease is rare) or meaningless biologic variation. I found it useless to try to explain that the rapid COVID tests and PCRs are not helpful in most cases. Many false negatives and positives based on duration of illness and symptoms. Yet the cars line up and wait hours to be tested. Part of the Mass Formation Psychosis. Also most young doctors do not know how to take a history and do a competent physical. I am an ER DOC. Most patients need someone to listen to them and simple tests; yet twenty percent of ER visits get expensive imaging.
Apparently there is a word limit for comments. This is the rest of my ramble from below...They don't project their personal biases due to the color of the patient on the gurney. They are saving machines, that's what they do. I don't know what higher purpose in life there can be. And if saving people's lives is not a radical enough job I can't imagine what it's like to be approached by people on the street who walk up to you and say, You saved my life, or you saved my daughter's life. Or if it weren't for you I'd be a pile of ashes in a jar on a shelf somewhere. Yikes. Sorry but Yikes is all I got at the moment. I don't know, maybe saving lives is something you can get used to. But I don't see how.
I am enjoying our ships passing in the night chats. You know how it has become a national 'thing' to thank service member for their service. That's a nice gesture. I want with all my heart to thank nurses for their service too but I am having a big problem with doing that. While I know that it's probably a small percentage of nurses who are literally involved with the killing of Covid patients, and they surely do not want to kill patients ( I would hope.) they are still part (even if peripherally) of the killing. That's a problem for me. And there are nurses who truly believe in the Covid fairy tale and believe in what the doctors are doing to the patients and even believe that people who are not vaccinated (it's not a vaccine) should not receive medical care. Yes they exist. And the nurses in that group surely make my skin crawl. So I want to say thank you for your service to the nurses but the words stick in my throat. And then we have the Emergency Room docs and dockettes. Those people (You) are substitute Gods in my mind. I hope this does not sound like I'm disrespecting God but when people have had horrible accidents and are in the moment, asking God to save them, I believe they are misdirecting their pleas. God does what God does, or doesn't do, and frankly I'd rather trust in an emergency room doctor than God when the pressure is at its highest. Maybe God is busy. Maybe God is off for the day. Maybe God has some issues with me and might figure, what the heck, I'm not so sure I like that guy all that much anyway. I'll pass on this one's pleas. Whereas the emergency room doctors have no such issues. They are there all the time. They do not judge who gets attended to. (That's for the triage nurse) They don't project their personal biases due to the color of the patient on the gurney. They are saving machines, that's what they do. I don't know what higher purpose in life there can be. And if saving people's lives is not a radical enough job I can't imagine what its like to be approached by people in the street who walk up to you and say, You saved my life or you saved my daughter's life. If it weren't for you I'd be a pile of ashes in a jar on a shelf somewhere. Yikes. Sorry but Yikes is all I got at the moment. I don't know, maybe saving lives is something you can get used to. Maybe it can become just another day at the office kind of job. But I don't see how.
Yes, Peer Review is a scam. Basically it means that your paper does not disagree with the current dogma. Not much different from the social media censorship of "unacceptable ideas". Add to that that about half of all medical papers have fraudulent data (this from editors of top journals) and you see where we are. BTW, most of the real advances in medicine are "disruptive", that is they go against the current paradigm. It takes decades for the true breakthroughs to be accepted.
Just saw this here somewhere. Bookmarked it to look at later. It may interest you or you may already know what it's talking about. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/10/05/feature/doctors-are-surprisingly-bad-at-reading-lab-results-its-putting-us-all-at-risk/
Yes I know this content. I tell patients a lab test is not a disease. If you do enough testing you find false positives (especially when the disease is rare) or meaningless biologic variation. I found it useless to try to explain that the rapid COVID tests and PCRs are not helpful in most cases. Many false negatives and positives based on duration of illness and symptoms. Yet the cars line up and wait hours to be tested. Part of the Mass Formation Psychosis. Also most young doctors do not know how to take a history and do a competent physical. I am an ER DOC. Most patients need someone to listen to them and simple tests; yet twenty percent of ER visits get expensive imaging.
Apparently there is a word limit for comments. This is the rest of my ramble from below...They don't project their personal biases due to the color of the patient on the gurney. They are saving machines, that's what they do. I don't know what higher purpose in life there can be. And if saving people's lives is not a radical enough job I can't imagine what it's like to be approached by people on the street who walk up to you and say, You saved my life, or you saved my daughter's life. Or if it weren't for you I'd be a pile of ashes in a jar on a shelf somewhere. Yikes. Sorry but Yikes is all I got at the moment. I don't know, maybe saving lives is something you can get used to. But I don't see how.
I am enjoying our ships passing in the night chats. You know how it has become a national 'thing' to thank service member for their service. That's a nice gesture. I want with all my heart to thank nurses for their service too but I am having a big problem with doing that. While I know that it's probably a small percentage of nurses who are literally involved with the killing of Covid patients, and they surely do not want to kill patients ( I would hope.) they are still part (even if peripherally) of the killing. That's a problem for me. And there are nurses who truly believe in the Covid fairy tale and believe in what the doctors are doing to the patients and even believe that people who are not vaccinated (it's not a vaccine) should not receive medical care. Yes they exist. And the nurses in that group surely make my skin crawl. So I want to say thank you for your service to the nurses but the words stick in my throat. And then we have the Emergency Room docs and dockettes. Those people (You) are substitute Gods in my mind. I hope this does not sound like I'm disrespecting God but when people have had horrible accidents and are in the moment, asking God to save them, I believe they are misdirecting their pleas. God does what God does, or doesn't do, and frankly I'd rather trust in an emergency room doctor than God when the pressure is at its highest. Maybe God is busy. Maybe God is off for the day. Maybe God has some issues with me and might figure, what the heck, I'm not so sure I like that guy all that much anyway. I'll pass on this one's pleas. Whereas the emergency room doctors have no such issues. They are there all the time. They do not judge who gets attended to. (That's for the triage nurse) They don't project their personal biases due to the color of the patient on the gurney. They are saving machines, that's what they do. I don't know what higher purpose in life there can be. And if saving people's lives is not a radical enough job I can't imagine what its like to be approached by people in the street who walk up to you and say, You saved my life or you saved my daughter's life. If it weren't for you I'd be a pile of ashes in a jar on a shelf somewhere. Yikes. Sorry but Yikes is all I got at the moment. I don't know, maybe saving lives is something you can get used to. Maybe it can become just another day at the office kind of job. But I don't see how.