Posted by alexandra_k on November 12, 2018, at 0:13:06
In reply to Re: baseball?, posted by alexandra_k on November 11, 2018, at 23:58:54
and i said to them 'give me the swab and i'll take it myself'. i understand you need to collect a sample of cells from the cervix.
but really what the smears are about is about it being something that med students need to sign off that they've done.
and they worry that nobody in their right mind will give informed consent to have a cervical smear done by someone who doesn't know what they are doing / isn't likely to collect cells from the right place so... uh... they sort of don't tell the person that they are only a med student. they pretend that they've done it, like, a million times before. you know how it is, just get in there and have a go. beggars can't be choosers and all that.
and even if they did find abnormalities in my cervical smear they likely wouldn't tell me that they've found them. they'd be more interested in observing my natural history to see whether the abnormalities get better or worse or remain the same. maybe to see whether our medical students get better or worse or remain the same in tehir ability to detect cervical abnormalities.
and even if they did decide to tell me that they found abnormalities then they would put me on a waiting list for surgery... and then the district health board would take me off the waiting list for surgery because they'll have found some academic willing to write a report that says that there is no proof these surgeries are cost effective and it would be cheaper to do nothing.
and even if i did get called up for surgery that would likely be an exercise in 'get in there and have a go!' for our medical students, too. under anasthesia how many medical students can all practice giving me smears?
so you see our health system is a joke. it's an awful f*ck*ng joke. there's nothing here. there's nobody home. just a bunch of awful bullies getting in there and taking what they want beause they want it... nobody teaches them anything... nobody that knows anything would want to teach them anything...
i have no confidence in our health system.
none whatsoever.
we don't have a health system. we don't have competent doctors. we don't have anything...
we have a bunch of managers and administrators.... a bunch of boards of directors... a bunch of psychopaths who sold out the people for embarrasingly little...
i hope they are held accountable.
the problem is what do you do with all these people? when 3/4 of teh ppulation behave like that if circumstances are conducive. circumstances have been mighty conducive for them, here. this whole nation is just a dumping ground for the developed world's trash. the inferior goods. teh inferior people. that sounds awful. morally inferior.
apparently the problem is wicked problem which is a techical term. i see... a bunch of short sighted psychopaths blaming the world for their own shortsightedness and narrow pursuit of their interests.
thanks for posting what you did on psychology, baseball. it was... so true. i thought. yeah. you are right, i think. about the inequality in the relationship. there is an inherant inequality. but that's kind of like the inherant inequality there is in a healthy parent - child relationship, too. the child's is inherintly selfish, i mean. growing up / letting go / being in the genuine position to pay it forwards. yeah.
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