The galling part of all this isn’t Trump. Cluster B personality disorder doing Cluster B personality things, like spewing a false reality and demanding people believe in it, is expected.
The galling part is all the dipshits following along. Most people ghost Cluster B, just not this country.
There’s a board who decides which patients qualify for the list. If you are someone who sat in a chair gaming, from teens to 30s, pickling your liver with alcohol for the duration, thus killing it, you won’t make that waiting list. Two reasons. You can’t be trusted to care for the new liver. You’re not a useful member of society.
Organ transplants happen when someone young and healthy dies, is in a position that those organs can be preserved, and the family, in the midst of their horror, shock, and grief, both allows the conversation and then agrees to the donation.
As such, if that sit in a chair gaming and pickling themself individual has a billionaire dad, maybe they go black market? Otherwise it’s hospice care.
Someone says “cream” it could mean powdered creamer, half & half, or the 2 inch list of ingredients liquid garbage that is international delights flavorings.
Milk is adjacent to this category, but unless it’s whole, will add an “off” milk flavor to the coffee which is pretty foul. Skim, for example, will destroy any cup of coffee with an unmistakeable pure milk flavor, no natural sweetness of cream, and no creaminess to the texture.
Pure cream is almost oily in the coffee.
“Cream” is more or less just half and half. Creamy milk, slightly sweet such that the bitter edge is cut. True half and half has 2 ingredients: milk & cream.
That is the idea behind Theil and company, to render politicians obsolete by fueling influence through social media manipulation.
To further this end via personal data such that they personally tweek you during your screen time.
AI is already influenced to bias answers on various topics per owner preference. That’s currently being mass tested now.
Social science data on retractions of bad or erroneous headlines, going back decades, shows retractions don’t work. The initial information blast holds sway. It sticks, for better or worse. Outliers exist, we’re talking middle of the bell curve.
You may already have an opinion, but many more do not and will thus be swayed.
Of course I do. No one should be pressured by anyone in regard to their code status, it’s a deeply personal choice, choice being the operative word.
You made an incorrect statement.
The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.
DNR patients do, in fact, have hospital stays, sometimes extended. They get surgery. DNR is do everything up until I’m dead, then stop.
You’re talking about palliative care and hospice. Those types of care remove various life saving cares.
All hospice and palliative have a DNR code status.
Not all DNR code status patients are palliative or hospice.
DNR is do everything right up until people reach the Miracle Max “mostly dead” state where staff has 10min to start bringing them back to life without brain damage. Brain damage may still occur. What DNR translates into is you let people stay dead once they’re dead, but you keep doing everything up until the point of dead.
Hospice is the state in which people are allowed to die. Often with drugs to make that death less painful due to the underlying pain of medical issues. Relaxation drugs like Ativan are also available so the patient isn’t in a state of panic as their lungs fail, or because they know they’re terminal and on the brink.
DNI is do everything up until it is ventilator time. CPR and drugs like epinephrine happen. The drugs like epinephrine, by the way, do little when your heart, or CPR, isn’t pumping blood through your body. There are still individuals who choose drugs only, no CPR, but that may be more a medical education deficit. Many a code ends in intubation after CPR, or the patient may continue to die and be brought back over and over until they simply die from bodily stress.
I’m not by any means arguing there isn’t seriously shady action happening in the corporate for profit management of medicine, and I’m certainly not defending United. I do think it’s important to understand how code status works though.
I don’t really see an issue with anyone elderly, of sound mind, choosing DNR. My own parents have DNR as their code statuses and they live independently outside any institutionalized care dwelling. Not wanting CPR or a ventilator is a valid life choice.
Know your code statuses. It is relevant to your own life.
Google does similar, stating it’s for safety.