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WCDT 4116-4120 (October 21st-25th, 2019)
hedgie:
NP. The system here for both outpatient and inpatient is just terrible. I still can't get the most effective medication that has the fewest side-effects for my anxiety because unless one pays a premium or has good coverage, doctors won't give out controlled substances.
Edit: I know that I've ranted about this before, but honestly, I'd rather risk becoming a functional addict working with my doctor to manage things than completely non-functional because literally everything else out there either doesn't work, or makes me too sedated to function.
rtmq0227:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 29 Oct 2019, 11:05 ---I still can't get the most effective medication that has the fewest side-effects for my anxiety because unless one pays a premium or has good coverage, doctors won't give out controlled substances.
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To jump on your tangent, even WITH coverage and a doctor on your side, you can get shafted by the US medical system. I was prescribed a medication once to assist with mental health issues, and was super excited to start this new medication as my doctor seemed to really have a handle on what was messed up in my headspace. I was excited all the way until the pharmacist told me it would be $400 for my 1-month scrip. I was still on my dad's health insurance at the time, but was living on my own and struggling financially. It would have drained my savings to pick up the scrip and then I'd be unable to continue to pay for the scrip. The problem? There wasn't a generic alternative, and it wasn't viewed as a life-critical medication, so it was on the list of meds that insurance didn't cover. So I had to walk away from the specific med that may have solved the problems I was struggling with and gotten my life started up again because someone didn't think the medicine should be covered.
hedgie:
That too. I used to pay for my meds entirely out of pocket. It was painful but doable. Then one day, the cost of all my scrips went up from ~$200 to ~$700 a month pretty much overnight. I found that by shifting them all to Costco, I saved about 80%, and one doesn't even need a membership to use the pharmacy there.
Tova:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 29 Oct 2019, 01:17 ---I have the feeling that the notion that power “reveals” rather than corrupts is unfalsifiable.
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Fundamentally? Yes. It's impossible to fully explain a person's motivations as opposed to actions, not without being able to read their mind.
But it's possible to point to earlier, less obvious behaviour and show that there is no apparent pattern of worsening behaviour when a person gets more power.
In other words, when a dictator has a history of acting like a power-hungry, petty tyrant, saying that power influenced their behaviour and restraint may be a stretch.
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True. Power isn’t revealing anything in that case, though, is it?
--- Quote ---Besides, isn't "power corrupts" also unfalsifiable on a fundamental level? And it's a commonly accepted wisdom.
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Both theories are adequate explanations of observed changes in behaviour.
But if you want to claim that, in a specific instance, an individual was already “evil” but exhibited no behaviour or evidence of that evil, then fundamentally you are making a claim based on zero evidence. Unless you want to claim that all humans are evil. Which I don’t feel inclined agree with.
Mr Intrepid:
Hmmm... no new strip has been posted as yet.
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