This only makes sense if the alternative would actually oppose the genocide… They will not … So then you’re getting the genocide plus all the other problems.

As a GP, I wholeheartedly agree. I have a minor in nutrition before studying medicine. I try to talk to my patients and they brush me off. My clinic has a dietitian, and they NEVER want a meeting with her. The only exception has been pregnant women.

I still do agree some more teaching could be helpful, but it’s likely only helpful in POST-graduate training, like, family medicine. Future surgeons, for instance, aren’t likely to need depth on nutrition, and the degree is already very loaded without much room to trim.

The joke is that Tony depends on exploiting lower class, working people. Hulk is suggesting investing in society, the poor. The next panel is Hulk launched into space (which happens for a different reason in the movies), because Tony doesn’t want Hulk to be listened to, because Tony would lose money.

You’re right that it’s frustrating, but it’s a no win situation (I’m a GP myself, btw).

• There aren’t enough GPs, there just aren’t, so time is scarce. All the surgeries are overloaded.
• each issue NEEDS time. People feel very confident of what they need sometimes, but that isn’t how medicine works. We need to assess, get the details, to give a right diagnosis and treatment
• every extra little thing, borrowed minute, carries forward. An extra 10 minutes at every other appointment turns into hours by the end of the day - unacceptable delays for patients and the staff.
• there is so much added paperwork for each of these things. Most of us finish our clinic at 4-5 and then still have a couple of hours of paperwork.
• most of us are so very burnt out at this point, and appointments becoming more complicated, demands getting higher, pushes us further towards giving up.

It isn’t the patient’s fault, but it is the reality. People fall through the cracks, important things gets missed, we know this and hate it too. We call it moral injury, the phenomenon of building pain because we can’t actually meet people’s needs or fully do what is right.

I hope the reply is clear that this isn’t push back. We wish we had more time with each patient. We wish we didn’t need to reign it in, but we’re already stretched too thin. We know it’s frustrating. We’re frustrated too

The discussions were what really made Reddit, to me. I could see an article or piece of information anywhere, but Reddit often had decent commentary that helped add context and perspective.

Wasn’t perfect, of course, but in general it felt like it really added to the experience.

This is a terrific substitute, which I believe everyone could get behind.