Message from @DrYuriMom

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2018-10-26 03:19:03 UTC  

That's just a variation on "current year" arguments.

2018-10-26 03:19:59 UTC  

Well we now are seeing male hemophiliacs have progeny for the first time in Earth history. Why? Because modern medicine!

2018-10-26 03:20:20 UTC  

Now *there* is an ethical dilemma for you.

2018-10-26 03:21:24 UTC  

I predict within another 200 years human beings will be entirely birthed with C-sections. Why? Modern Medicine! Women who died in childbirth now have kids and pass genes on that are not conducive to vaginal births.

2018-10-26 03:21:31 UTC  

Cat, do you see modern medicine allowing people with heritable aliments reproduce enough that we may go back to the idea of eugenics in a serious manner?

2018-10-26 03:21:46 UTC  

I'm damn glad of that or I wouldn't have kids and my wife might be dead.

2018-10-26 03:22:07 UTC  

@Malt_Hitman , that's a political and not a medical question

2018-10-26 03:22:41 UTC  

I'm a doctor not a politician, Jim!

2018-10-26 03:22:42 UTC  

:p

2018-10-26 03:22:50 UTC  

lets just skip to brains in engineered bodies that live forever and just outlaw having kids on established planets.

2018-10-26 03:22:58 UTC  

want kids, go to the outer colonies.

2018-10-26 03:23:24 UTC  

oh, and we will rip their brains out of their bodies and place them in these human 2.0 bodies. because that is the ethical thing to do

2018-10-26 03:24:20 UTC  

You're a doctor but you work (I assume) in a hospital and I'd guess you deal with insurance companies. Does that idea ever get brought up seriously? I'd assume it would at least arrise when dealing with people who work in insurance companies jokingly.

2018-10-26 03:24:28 UTC  

Mmmm, brains. (hey, it's almost Halloween :p )

2018-10-26 03:25:03 UTC  

"Brians, BRIANS!"
"Caboose its brains"
"Oh....moaning, mooooaning"

2018-10-26 03:25:24 UTC  

@Malt_Hitman , what get brought up? Why should live and who should die?

2018-10-26 03:25:38 UTC  

money

2018-10-26 03:25:41 UTC  

money deicides that

2018-10-26 03:25:52 UTC  

The idea that people with heritable illnesses cost more money to keep healthy.

2018-10-26 03:26:00 UTC  

Oh, they do

2018-10-26 03:26:09 UTC  

But no, we don't judge

2018-10-26 03:26:23 UTC  

Most hospitals are non-profit and exist to serve everyone

2018-10-26 03:26:40 UTC  

I won't work for a for-profit. My profession is my vocation.

2018-10-26 03:27:11 UTC  

That said, insurance companies tinker with it. But ultimately that's a political debate. We're having it right now. It's called pre-existing conditions.

2018-10-26 03:28:36 UTC  
2018-10-26 03:30:03 UTC  
2018-10-26 03:32:40 UTC  

@Grenade123 , as is often the case, this is a very selective presentation. Still watching.

2018-10-26 03:34:05 UTC  

i mean, it is a show, so of course

2018-10-26 03:34:38 UTC  

In can tell you that non-profit hospitals are suffering

2018-10-26 03:34:59 UTC  

are non-profit anything ever not suffering?

2018-10-26 03:35:10 UTC  

Medicaid pays about 75% of the cost (not charges) it takes to treat patients

2018-10-26 03:35:17 UTC  

Medicare pays about 95%

2018-10-26 03:35:38 UTC  

Commercial insurance about 120% but that has to offset the other moneylosers

2018-10-26 03:36:19 UTC  

My particular health system made a 0.7% margin two years ago

2018-10-26 03:38:40 UTC  

@Jasse, you lost me at the "American College of Pediatricians". An organization of about 500 members compared to the American Academy of Pediatrics with about 64,000 members

2018-10-26 03:39:50 UTC  

Have not watched those vids, but here's my stance on trans:
I don't recall the exact numbers, but there is an absurd amount of suicide attempts made by trans people above the national average. Even the most passive google search lists the rates on the LOW end as 35%, and the high end marks some studies as as high as 78%.

And while I fully accept that causation does not equal correlation, I will 100% stand behind the fact that any condition that is this closely linked with suicide attempts, is absolutely mental health problem, and must be treated as such.

2018-10-26 03:40:28 UTC  

We're not talking popularity, we're talking professional associations and their collective wisdom

2018-10-26 03:40:39 UTC  

@Jasse that fallacy equality applies to you