St. John's hospital doctors submit mass resignation, warn of 'impending crisis' (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 days ago

Honestly this is my main fear of any kind of single payer system. It's not that the system can't work well - but that it is a single target for right wing assholes to destroy for the sole purpose of saying that system is bad because they can destroy it.

[-] Dtules@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I live in Newfoundland -- our healthcare system doesn't suck because of right wing assholes exactly, in my opinion, it sucks because Newfoundland politics is rife with nepotism and cronyism.

I would still rather this than a world where my family can be bankrupted if someone gets the wrong sickness at the wrong time.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago

To be fair, in a system like in the US, right wing assholes can still destroy healthcare. The common denominator here is that right wing assholes are a death cult

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 days ago

And don't forget that every province refused to sign an agreement that locked the extra billions they received from Trudeau's gov't to only be spent on healthcare.

Honestly, any problems a province is having is their own fault.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

I 'member

[+] theacharnian@lemmy.ca -21 points 2 days ago

What a horribly written article! I couldn't tell the reason why the doctors resigned. There are too many jargon terms in there that I don't recognize. I had to ask ChatGPT the explain it to me. Here it is in plain language:

Five doctors at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital resigned because they say their workplace has become too unsafe to keep doing their jobs. The tipping point came when the hospital pulled out resident doctors — junior physicians who usually handle much of the day-to-day patient care under supervision. That left just five senior doctors to care for around 100 patients, handle up to 20 emergency cases a day, and respond to life-or-death situations like cardiac arrests — all without enough help. But this wasn’t an isolated problem. The doctors say they’ve been raising concerns for months, and that the health authority has ignored them and failed to offer any real plan to fix things. They’re warning that without action, patients will be at serious risk and staff will burn out. Their resignation is a last resort — a way to force the system to face a growing crisis that’s been building for far too long.

[-] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 23 hours ago

How about just read the sources and form your own opinion and words. Using chatGPT to understand something so simple is just going to make you less capable of actually obtaining information.

[-] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago

It's written at a college level per Flesh-Kincaid readability stats obtained from MS Word.

The more often you 'ask ChatGPT the explain it to me' the more often you'll have to do that, instead of investing a few extra minutes, looking up some new terms, and expanding your vocabulary and reading comprehension - gains that you will take with you to everything you read subsequently.

There is some jargon and it's not the simplest piece. But your complaints are more about your decreasing independence at reading texts. Use it or lose it

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Well said. Part of the issue I've been noticing is because Google has fucked their search people I know who used to search for answers are more often using LLMs to search. They don't try alternatives, they just give up doing any kind of searching for anything they might want to know.

[-] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

It's all part of the business model. The LLMs won't be free forever. Build dependence on LLMs and destroy alternatives, to create future paying customers. Convenience is the trojan horse of all corporate tech these days. What tech bros want is for access to human knowledge to only be accessible through proprietary pay-for-access LLMs that they can manipulate (e.g., re-define all racism as anti-white racism)

[-] match@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah! Or just do what the rest of us do and go to the comments to have someone tell the answers to you!

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 day ago

Sure yes absolutely. But that doesn't negate the obligation of the CBC to write more accessibly.

In this case what really threw me off is that "residents" are intern doctors and "internists" are permanent doctors.

[-] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I objected to "horribly written" but I 100% agree with "should be written more accessibly." I'm going to drop the author a line, because this is important info for Canadians to know about, and as you say it should be more broadly accessible.

I see how residents-internists is confusing. The general work-study term "intern" isn't used at all in medicine. Probably because it's vague with respect to training (and thus responsibility) level. Trainee doctors go from "med students" (3-4 years) to "residents" (2-4 years) - and sometimes "fellow" (2-3 years) - before becoming a staff doctor. I'm not a doctor but I work with some