From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-16, D  wrote:   
      
   >> I've successfully reduced modern medicine to two bullet   
   >> points:   
   >>   
   >> 1) Sign lengthy, complicated legalese that can be reduced   
   >>   to "Everything that goes wrong is the patient's fault."   
   >>   
   >> 2) Medical expertise means "Try this. If it doesn't   
   >>   work, try that. If that doesn't work, try something   
   >>   else .".   
   >>   
   >> What a great business! We've no responsibility/liability,   
   >> and little to no need to actually know cause/effect,   
   >> because we're just going to be trying things until   
   >> something works anyway!   
      
   > Jesus! Don't get me started. Let me rewrite the above   
   > slightly:   
   >   
   > 1: BEGIN   
   > 2: Sign lengthy, complicated legalese that can be reduced   
   >     to "Everything that goes wrong is the patient's fault."   
   > 3: Hand over a huge amount of cash.   
   > 4: Medical expertise means "Try this. If it doesn't   
   >     work, try that. If that doesn't work, try something   
   >     else .".   
   > 5: GOTO 1.   
      
   I do believe it's time to check in and commit version 2.0!   
      
   > Anything more complicated than a cold, I think the above   
   > pretty much describes my experience. Note that depending on   
   > where you live in europe step 3 is either handled through   
   > your tax bill or directly in case you didn't feel like   
   > waiting in line for 1 year to get your treatment.   
      
   But Europe has completely solved healthcare according to   
   lore on this side of the Atlantic! :-)   
      
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