onmymedicalgrind

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Here's a good story about the current medical care in the US.

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The NP checks him out

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I'm not sure why the NP thought

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:gmt:

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None. They won't be smelling drugs coming from my house.

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…until one says they do. And then how are you going to prove that wrong? To act like there has never been a cop that lied about smelling something bc it is one thing impossible to prove even with cameras everywhere now is so naive.

This is why civil rights are important. The fact there are Americas who think like you would be embarrassing if it weren’t so sad.

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What exactly is probable cause to search for drugs if the smell of drugs isn't probable cause? This strikes me as raising the bar of "probable cause" so high as to make investigating this crime impossible.

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If you have probable cause to search a home, you get a warrant. Absent that, consent, or exigency….you don’t get to just search homes.

Thank God for the 4th amendment.

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Only in a league as entitled and arrogant as the NBA could you have a mf making damn near $60 million a year who still has the balls to bitch about being underpaid.

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You know its possible to even make 100 million a year and still be underpaid? You sound jelly....and poor.

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The superstars are probably underpaid when it comes to their value to their franchise and the leauge. This only applies to a handful of players.

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And Steph is unequivocally in that handful.

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Their ridiculous salaries are based, in part, on revenue sharing, so I don't know what exactly he should be complain about when he's worth almost half a billion dollars.

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If there weren't an artificial cap on what these employees could make, he would be making much more. Hence, he is 100% correct that he had been underpaid most of his career.

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I think that is also the perception of the general public and it's not hard to imagine that the Dems will bring this up in her confirmation process. Whether or not they succeed in derailing her remains to be seen.

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Correct. It’s just such low hanging fruit. As NC pointed out, most people don’t end up at Caribbean med schools by choice, but by necessity. And I think most of the general public who knows nothing about the particularities of medical education still know enough to (accurately) equate Caribbean med school = lesser than. Hell, if I got a dollar for every time I got accused by some simpleton on here of going to a Caribbean med school, I’d retire in a couple years :lol:

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I’m wondering if her medical school will be ammunition to use against her

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It will be, even if one wants to argue it’s inconsequential due to what she achieved post med school. There is no doubt that in terms of overall quality, Caribbean med schools are not the same standard as US allopathic institutions.

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Trump's Surgeon General nominee has a B.A.

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Unimportant

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NC, I learned last week that the majority of this board has a fundamental misunderstanding of BA vs BS.

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I guess we don't have freedom of speech then. Calling for the President to be killed is a federal crime.

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Correct, and thus not protected.

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With respect to government actors, it absolutely safeguards against retaliation for protected speech.

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