Jesse May

Dell Cameron @dell.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

Stories about Elon’s bans build up a lot of steam b/c he’s so braggadocios about it. But he could block a dozen reporters a day and never catch up to Meta’s censorship of the news media. It purposefully bans information on a massive scale to manipulate the world’s opinions toward certain subjects

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 09, 2024 at 00:05 UTC

I proclaimed my first (knock-off) robot vacuum “best family member of the year” when I got it, which led friends to joke that it was my baby. It then became BRV - baby robot vacuum. All erv’s since have been an upgrade and thus the best family member of the year and so inherit the name.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 02, 2024 at 19:05 UTC

And because I’m not sure we’re getting anywhere I’m gonna bounce. I wish you in all honesty an absence of suffering, and an excess of happiness, health and safety.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 02, 2024 at 18:55 UTC

The conditions in the field are why they’re leaving. The specialty has been in distress for awhile and family doctors have been leaving for awhile but now the ones who are morally distressed by leaving are speaking.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 02, 2024 at 18:53 UTC

And this will be the answer of everyone who has the same opportunities that current family doctors have no matter how many fam doctors you add to the field in any realistic training scenario (there are real limits to training numbers if you care about quality).

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 02, 2024 at 18:46 UTC

Frankly every generation of family doctors for the last 40 years has seen conditions in their field get worse. Gov’t used to at least pretend to want to solve their problems. Now they just get told to deal with it. So they are - by finding better ways to make a living.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 02, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

They have been kind and conscientious doctors I’d be happy for my loved ones to see who have been burned out by too many demands on too little time for too little benefit (both spiritual/emotional/psychological and material).

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 02, 2024 at 18:38 UTC

I know im just a picture on the internetz but the docs I know who left family med have not been the money-grubbing meat-movers you’ve described (and frankly those people don’t go into family med).

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 02, 2024 at 18:36 UTC

There is no mass conspiracy by family doctors. Dismissing the concerns they raise because you don’t like the answer they propose only means letting the problem get worse.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 02, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

I’m not saying conditions are unfair. I’m saying drs are making rational decisions. If (all else equal) you could suffer less, while getting same or more material or non-material benefits you’d have to be an idiot or a saint to say no. Individual family doctors are making that decision every day.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 01, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

Taking out ur mads on famdr’s b/c of a dislike of ppl making money rather than focusing where the real issue is (continued wealth hoarding by the 0.5-0.1%, conscious underfunding of social safety net, medical system, etc) is just sad to see especially when the proposed solution harms regular ppl.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 01, 2024 at 19:20 UTC

Stop the doctors that is.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 01, 2024 at 19:19 UTC

Your blithe rx for 2.6million un-doctored folks condemns them to worse healthcare for a decade at minimum(the rough length of medical training pipeline) and does nothing to stop them from moving to other provinces or continuing to leave the field.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 01, 2024 at 19:13 UTC

A construction worker makes 75-200k/year with less knowledge, training, and responsibility (ask me how I know). In the society we have, asking someone to spend 60-120hrs/wk for 6 years (minimum) to do the same is busted.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 01, 2024 at 19:09 UTC

Ontario has more family med trained Dr’s than ever before. They’re not leaving for other countries - they’re doing other work here in Ontario because it’s as gratifying while paying better and being less stressful.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 01, 2024 at 03:33 UTC

Being a famdoc is a job like other jobs. You don’t have to be a saint (or martyr) to be a great one. Which is good - there aren’t enough of either around. But if you don’t fix FamMed you lose the non-saints. And they provide a pretty necessary service.

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Jesse May @drmay.icu [ View ] Mar 01, 2024 at 03:12 UTC

The argument is not that family doctors deserve more - it’s that they have other options. If the issues in the field aren’t addressed they will keep leaving and no one else can do what they do as well as they do it.

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