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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Urban Wastelands
I pass by hundreds of abandoned houses and storefronts here in Cleveland. It is sickening to meditate on the conditions of Chicago, Detroit, Youngstown and other industrial cities.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
RDMS: Preventive Care
How would preventive care become common when...?
1. Most people don’t talk to doctors that often.
a. Why? Usual reason starts with socialization (not trained to think that way), then with it costing money, not enough doctors for common rapport
b. How do you start up rapport? Supporters build rapport with lower health officials like nurses. Build the new system with anything given, hoping to upgrade later.
2. Most people don’t want to change their health habits.
a. Why? Inertia, pride, stubbornness, disagreeing with preventive care, dismotivation
b. Why do people that DO want preventive care not change their habits? The sea of detractors keeps support of change low. Change is difficult when no one else cares.
c. Why do people who don’t want preventive care keep their habits? Who cares? If they don’t want preventive care, they aren’t the ones being serviced. Why bother with persuading distracters? The focus should be on building a preventive care system that can sustain itself even with the few people who would want it. In time, by the virtue of our truth, will we become “common”. We can only build that system by ignoring distracters and focusing all attention and resources on the supporters: separating them from distracters (Black), supporting them (White), reminding them to support us (Yellow), and building a proper, legal, inclusive alternative (Red).
3. Training one general practice doctor takes 10 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
a. Why? System demands a pre-med degree, then medical school, then fellowship as standard. Training facilities compete to be revolutionary, costing money. Colleges are systematically expensive and rising.
b. Where is the equilibrium between time (and money) to train and the quality needed for preventive care doctors? Research needed. Look into how developing countries train doctors and other training standards, like for registered nurses, dentists and unconventional doctors.
i. How would a sub-standard doctor become credited? By truthfully stating an efficient standard for a preventive care doctor/nurse and providing results using that standard, you can build credit and respect for the standard.
4. Most American doctors are surgeons instead of general practice doctors.
a. Why? The cost on a student to become a doctor is so great they are forced to specialize to get out of debt. Laws are designed to keep up demand for surgeons. General doctors require more commitment on patient’s end, which is not in demand.
b. How many doctors would be willing to go to a new system? Probably not many, but that is only a temporary problem. Doctors training other doctors makes more doctors in the future. Look to people who are attracted to Doctors Without Borders and other humanistic ways to practice. There is no point in looking to people who want money.
c. Could we reduce their debt? In time, maybe, but the point of the process is to start with leftovers from the old system and build a new one that wouldn’t put medical students in so much debt to start with. By that logic, why waste energy transfiguring the old when we are meant to birth new?
5. The present industry controls its regulation and laws.
a. Why? Because all industries eventually insure their survival by the law.
b. What could we do about this? Request separate laws applicable to us. We will live alongside the old system.
c. How do you start a medical school? I don’t know.
d. What about insurance and liability? Insurance goes hand in hand with the medical industry, mostly because the medical industry is systematically expensive, thus requiring an auxiliary insurance industry that is systematically miserly. At the same time, the miserable treatment of patients backfires with lawsuit-happy patients. The whole mess breeds contempt and distrust between client and professional.
i. How do we protect ourselves from misery? By working under the established system to cover liability, with full intent of separating and strictly discriminating based on attitude. By working under the establishment but not for it, we observe misery in its natural habitat. We can understand it. Human nature breeds misery.
1. What is breeding these problems? Greedy people taking advantage of human nature, companies looking to profit off the sick instead of an output-based operation, the industry being systematically expensive thus making a starting point for change difficult to isolate, people speaking on the topic with intent to deceive, organizational and bureaucratic mismanagement…
a. And then? And then we separate. If a person is not willing to address these breeding pits immediately, they do not really want to separate.
ii. And insurance? The insurance market exists because healthcare is expensive. By having a “universal” pool of funds for all members, insurance is obsolete. The goal is to heal, not to pay for healing. Research the most common procedures done in medicine, how much they cost, and why they charge their fee. If 30% of members may have one blood transfusion at some time in their lives, and a blood transfusion costs $1,000, then the pool of money should balance out to having $30,000 per 100 members for blood transfusions.
1. Most people don’t talk to doctors that often.
a. Why? Usual reason starts with socialization (not trained to think that way), then with it costing money, not enough doctors for common rapport
b. How do you start up rapport? Supporters build rapport with lower health officials like nurses. Build the new system with anything given, hoping to upgrade later.
2. Most people don’t want to change their health habits.
a. Why? Inertia, pride, stubbornness, disagreeing with preventive care, dismotivation
b. Why do people that DO want preventive care not change their habits? The sea of detractors keeps support of change low. Change is difficult when no one else cares.
c. Why do people who don’t want preventive care keep their habits? Who cares? If they don’t want preventive care, they aren’t the ones being serviced. Why bother with persuading distracters? The focus should be on building a preventive care system that can sustain itself even with the few people who would want it. In time, by the virtue of our truth, will we become “common”. We can only build that system by ignoring distracters and focusing all attention and resources on the supporters: separating them from distracters (Black), supporting them (White), reminding them to support us (Yellow), and building a proper, legal, inclusive alternative (Red).
3. Training one general practice doctor takes 10 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
a. Why? System demands a pre-med degree, then medical school, then fellowship as standard. Training facilities compete to be revolutionary, costing money. Colleges are systematically expensive and rising.
b. Where is the equilibrium between time (and money) to train and the quality needed for preventive care doctors? Research needed. Look into how developing countries train doctors and other training standards, like for registered nurses, dentists and unconventional doctors.
i. How would a sub-standard doctor become credited? By truthfully stating an efficient standard for a preventive care doctor/nurse and providing results using that standard, you can build credit and respect for the standard.
4. Most American doctors are surgeons instead of general practice doctors.
a. Why? The cost on a student to become a doctor is so great they are forced to specialize to get out of debt. Laws are designed to keep up demand for surgeons. General doctors require more commitment on patient’s end, which is not in demand.
b. How many doctors would be willing to go to a new system? Probably not many, but that is only a temporary problem. Doctors training other doctors makes more doctors in the future. Look to people who are attracted to Doctors Without Borders and other humanistic ways to practice. There is no point in looking to people who want money.
c. Could we reduce their debt? In time, maybe, but the point of the process is to start with leftovers from the old system and build a new one that wouldn’t put medical students in so much debt to start with. By that logic, why waste energy transfiguring the old when we are meant to birth new?
5. The present industry controls its regulation and laws.
a. Why? Because all industries eventually insure their survival by the law.
b. What could we do about this? Request separate laws applicable to us. We will live alongside the old system.
c. How do you start a medical school? I don’t know.
d. What about insurance and liability? Insurance goes hand in hand with the medical industry, mostly because the medical industry is systematically expensive, thus requiring an auxiliary insurance industry that is systematically miserly. At the same time, the miserable treatment of patients backfires with lawsuit-happy patients. The whole mess breeds contempt and distrust between client and professional.
i. How do we protect ourselves from misery? By working under the established system to cover liability, with full intent of separating and strictly discriminating based on attitude. By working under the establishment but not for it, we observe misery in its natural habitat. We can understand it. Human nature breeds misery.
1. What is breeding these problems? Greedy people taking advantage of human nature, companies looking to profit off the sick instead of an output-based operation, the industry being systematically expensive thus making a starting point for change difficult to isolate, people speaking on the topic with intent to deceive, organizational and bureaucratic mismanagement…
a. And then? And then we separate. If a person is not willing to address these breeding pits immediately, they do not really want to separate.
ii. And insurance? The insurance market exists because healthcare is expensive. By having a “universal” pool of funds for all members, insurance is obsolete. The goal is to heal, not to pay for healing. Research the most common procedures done in medicine, how much they cost, and why they charge their fee. If 30% of members may have one blood transfusion at some time in their lives, and a blood transfusion costs $1,000, then the pool of money should balance out to having $30,000 per 100 members for blood transfusions.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Yahoo! Answers :)
Hullo, hullo.
I've been writing questions on Yahoo Answers. The result is just as I expected--So I won't go into that negativity. :P
But if any of these questions strike you, feel free to give a reply-answer.
What would you contribute...
to increase basic nutrition for underclass kids?
to build a Progressive media outlet?
to make childhood easier for the underclass?
to improve your neighborhood?
to improve the teamwork/communication of your favorite civic group?
in a village based on a common social goal?
to see "kids respect authority" in your neighborhood?
to get your city/town off coal and oil?
How can society/gov’t/the health care industry raise prevention care demand to meet supply?
(Asked the same question thrice in different areas... I'm pretty sure thats breaking policy. :S)
Would you live in a village based on a common social goal?
What enables you to actively live your cultural ideals?
What prevents you from actively living your cultural ideals?
Do communists, socialists and democratic socialists set up credit unions amongst themselves?
(I've been really interested in what fringe groups actually DO in America...)
I've been writing questions on Yahoo Answers. The result is just as I expected--So I won't go into that negativity. :P
But if any of these questions strike you, feel free to give a reply-answer.
What would you contribute...
to increase basic nutrition for underclass kids?
to build a Progressive media outlet?
to make childhood easier for the underclass?
to improve your neighborhood?
to improve the teamwork/communication of your favorite civic group?
in a village based on a common social goal?
to see "kids respect authority" in your neighborhood?
to get your city/town off coal and oil?
How can society/gov’t/the health care industry raise prevention care demand to meet supply?
(Asked the same question thrice in different areas... I'm pretty sure thats breaking policy. :S)
Would you live in a village based on a common social goal?
What enables you to actively live your cultural ideals?
What prevents you from actively living your cultural ideals?
Do communists, socialists and democratic socialists set up credit unions amongst themselves?
(I've been really interested in what fringe groups actually DO in America...)
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