you ever just read a story that breaks your heart and leaves you begging for more?

unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

at my local clinic, if a practitioner doesn’t meet the quota of patients set by the company who owns the clinic then their pay gets docked, but if they see some arbitrary number above their quota they get a bonus. This quota doesn’t take into account things like sick days or vacation time or if the office closes for the weather or something, and causes a huge source of anxiety for the doctors and nurse practitioners causing them to focus more on cycling through enough people on a day to day basis to pay their bills than taking the time to actually get to the bottom of a problem. The first contract they were offered was worse, but the staff only managed to get through one round of negotiations before the company said that if they didn’t like the terms of their offer they could quit and find work elsewhere. A few did, but we’re in a rural area so alternatives are limited.

Private equity and insurance companies are a special kind of evil and can burn in hell.

"Why does a 15-minute visit with a doctor cost 150 bucks in America???" you're gonna want to read Money-Driven Medicine, by Maggie Mahar, and probably also The Social Transformation of American Medicine, to answer that question. It is not because your doctor is a greedy bastard; your doctor does not see most of that money. It is because the system is broken to a level that is truly impressive in its dedication to making a shit ton of money for insurance company executives and shareholders.

reading Harold Bloom for the first time, and he’s got some wacky ideas, but when he said, “to read in service of any ideology is not to read at all” I felt that deep in my bones

Happy birthday, Brook!

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DO IT PLS

'you still listen to music from 10 years ago 🤨?' bitch if prehistoric humans had audio recording technology id be sat up here listening to grog and unga bunga's greatest hits don't play with me

Hi! In curious about what you mentioned on your other blog, that you recently left a stressful job. Is that nursing? Do you still plan to work in medicine or geriatrics?

I’m still in nursing and long term care. I just transferred to a different building in my company and out of a management role. Since I no longer cry all the time at work I think it was the right choice

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1920s Baroque Works 🥂

Always wanted to do a movie poster redraw of the Great Gatsby so here they are!!

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

— Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

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