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  • roadkill

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    In regard to sports I don’t think we will see college football this year and I have my doubts on all stick & ball sports. Baseball has a chance but it’s gonna be difficult with the others.

    NFL has published some of its “Covid” rules. I believe they said no jersey swaps between rival players after the game and no socializing between opposing players after the game??? Let that soak in.........

    We gonna beat, bang, spit, sweat, $ bleed on each other for 4 quarters but we can swap jerseys or visit after the game. I don’t see this happening.

    Wonder what will happen to the foosball scholarship recipients if they can’t play cause the season was cancelled. They still get the free money or are they on the hook for the education they couldn’t afford without the ride?


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    toddnjoyce

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    Gotta love a virologist/epidemiologist and media company that’ll lie their asses off to your face.

    https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/1...-after-network-followed-his-alleged-recovery/


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    Big Green

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    Now back to your regular scheduled programming, I’m hopeful all the major pro and college sports sit out the season.

    Not that I don’t enjoy some UT and A&M football, but it should serve as a reminder that in the end, these things are just games.
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    I’ll say it again, schools just educate. Drop all sports programs and educate instead. Highest paid state employee in almost every state is head football coach at one of the big universities. Reading some of the tweets of the A&M quarterback concerning Sully and BLM further cements this idea for me.
     

    BillFairbanks

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    I’ll say it again, schools just educate. Drop all sports programs and educate instead. Highest paid state employee in almost every state is head football coach at one of the big universities. Reading some of the tweets of the A&M quarterback concerning Sully and BLM further cements this idea for me.

    Sports have become an enormous source of revenue for these schools. That’s why the coaches are paid so much. Unlike the Transitional Gender Racial Equality Professors, Football coaches generate a profit.


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    toddnjoyce

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    And there’s the conflict of interest. Higher education is being managed to generate profits that subsidize/offset losses.

    In a perfect world, I would get all sports except intramurals into amateur/developmental leagues, leaving colleges and universities to educate.

    If an educational program can’t generate enough demand, it should be replaced by programs that will. What this should result in is what higher education looked like for most of it’s history in the US.

    As a nation, we are over-educated and under-skilled. Most roles in the US don’t require a bachelor’s degree; it’s a requirement solely as a discriminator.
     

    etmo

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    As a nation, we are over-educated

    Have to say I disagree. Americans as a group simply don't know how to think, and teaching critical thinking is among the most important jobs that should be performed by an educational system.

    If; however, you're saying that Americans have attended a lot of school but somehow missed out on getting educated, then I do agree.
     

    HKShooter65

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    As I work in a hospital setting, direct pay wouldn’t work. I know roughly how much is billed, but how much is reimbursed is a whole other thing.

    I wouldn’t bill you to quit smoking if you don’t smoke. I only bill you if I spent 3 minutes counseling. 3 minutes is a long time.

    People don’t understand medical billing in general.

    You go to ED for broken arm. 90% of your bill is a facility fee, X-ray, meds. The rest of it goes to the providers who have professional charges. The ED doc sees you, +/- the orthopedists (might see you in the ED or in clinic the next day). If you get admitted, (really shouldn’t for a broken arm, but you can if they need pain control), then you would have the professional charges from the Hospitalist who sees you for every day you are in the hospital. Each specialist will bill you for every day they see you. Surgeries are bundled a bit differently.

    The way I get paid right now, the vast majority of my salary is base, and only about 5% is based on production. Seeing that tobacco cessation counseling is 0.24 wRVU’s, I get paid about $0.75 to do it, paid over 12 months following. Studies do show that frequent recommendations to quit tobacco actually do cause them to quit.

    Also, the things life referrals for cancer screening aren’t billable things, they just are good practice because they help save lives.



    We, as physicians, are encountering an unprecedented challenge with this SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

    I really have no intent to debate those of you who've decided we MDs are a lost cause.

    But......

    For those of you who want insight into the current times......
    Give this at least an hour of your time.
    Enormous insights to be gleaned:
     

    ZX9RCAM

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    We, as physicians, are encountering an unprecedented challenge with this SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

    I really have no intent to debate those of you who've decided we MDs are a lost cause.

    But......

    For those of you who want insight into the current times......
    Give this at least an hour of your time.
    Enormous insights to be gleaned:

    At least an hour?

    That's more than I spend in a week on videos....

    :green:
     

    cvgunman

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    We, as physicians, are encountering an unprecedented challenge with this SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

    I really have no intent to debate those of you who've decided we MDs are a lost cause.

    But......

    For those of you who want insight into the current times......
    Give this at least an hour of your time.
    Enormous insights to be gleaned:

    I wish I have an hour to be indoctrinated...but I don't.
    I can't wait until Nov. 4, the Rona virus will magically disappear.
     

    BillFairbanks

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    We, as physicians, are encountering an unprecedented challenge with this SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

    I really have no intent to debate those of you who've decided we MDs are a lost cause.

    But......

    For those of you who want insight into the current times......
    Give this at least an hour of your time.
    Enormous insights to be gleaned:


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    toddnjoyce

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    We, as physicians, are encountering an unprecedented challenge with this SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
    For reference, here’s an unprecedented challenge. If you’ve got an hour for your video, surely you’ve got 1M 38s for this.



    That you can’t keep the big money making elective procedures flowing isn’t my problem.
     

    HKShooter65

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    At least an hour?

    That's more than I spend in a week on videos....

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    Understood.

    Though, any meaningful professional education for those of us in health care take at least 30-60 minutes.

    Give the "This Week in Virology" perhaps 10 minutes.

    Insightful time spent.

    Too many online data consumers want a 0.6 second headline synopsis and are remiss in even spending 60 seconds to read the content on the article's text content.


     

    cvgunman

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    Yes sir.
    Much as it did by Easter when we were (almost) able to unabashedly open.
    Not that, Trump will have been re-elected and the Rona will be a non issue. It is only hyped up in efforts to damage his re-election.
    Let me ask you this. There are more positive cases daily. Why is that? Is it that now they have the means to start testing everyone? Since there has been a "spike" in number of positives, I'd guess, based on the laws of statistics that the number of DEATHS has grown exponentially as well. True or false?
     
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