Allopathological

Allopathological t1_jegrg6a wrote

I make ~60 K per year as a resident doctor. After taxes it’s about 3.5 K per month and I pay about $1k /mo for rent. My car is paid off, not that I need it cause I can walk to the hospital from my apt. I get health and dental through my job. I have 200/mo going automatically into my retirement investment account with employer match. I spend probably $300-400 per month on food because I like to splurge on good ingredients to cook with.

Admittedly I don’t spend a lot of money on basically anything else as I don’t have time outside of work to spend the money so I’ve been able to put a few thousand in my savings account.

I definitely don’t live like a king but I don’t feel like I have problems affording the essentials and the occasional splurge purchase.

Definitely doable. But I couldn’t raise a family on this salary.

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Allopathological t1_jdisva4 wrote

Like a baby because I don’t intentionally traumatize other people by driving recklessly into oncoming traffic. I’ve seen dudes like these in providence literally play “chicken” with oncoming traffic just to scare the drivers.

Sounds like they encountered the consequences of their actions and by doing so traumatized an innocent driver who has to live with this now.

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Allopathological t1_j9w650w wrote

Because when you don’t fill a pain med script for 8 months it looks super suspicious when you suddenly start filling it again without an explanation. Asking people online for a recommendation for a vet specifically because your current vet wouldn’t fill a pain med script is likewise suspicious. Because that’s exactly what people who divert/misuse pain meds do when someone tells them no.

You down “own” the refills. The pharmacy does, and they can refuse to fill a med in situations where things are suspicious just like this one.

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Allopathological t1_iwqk6q6 wrote

Republican controlled states have higher rates of poverty & maternal death. Republican economic policies often mathematically make no sense and are literally impossible to implement. Republican controlled states also have worse health care outcomes and shorter lifespans for their residents.

Empirically it is worse to live under Republican control. Their policies are bad, unpopular, and really only benefit the rich and those in power they’ve leveraged this power to stay in power for decades longer than they should have be it be via gerrymandering, voter suppression, or propaganda outlets. Fox News was literally developed to be a propaganda box with the intention of painting republicans in a good light.

They know their policies are unpopular which is why they rely so heavily on the electoral college (nationally) and gerrymandering (within states) because if it were up to the people of this nation to choose who they wanted to represent them republicans would lose every time. They’ve lost every popular vote since GHWB in 1988 nearly 35 years ago.

Was that well thought out enough for you?

Democrats have their fair share of problems and bullshit but you really can’t compare the two.

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Allopathological t1_iwqhrj5 wrote

oil companies are using the global geopolitical climate to gouge prices. Oil and gas companies are posting record profits. It’s not an issue of lack of oil supply, it’s an issue of artificially reduced supply to jack up prices. OPEC nations literally burn a portion of the oil they dig up 24/7 365 to prevent extra oil from reaching the market and reducing prices.

I’ll remind you, Biden does not set or control gas prices.

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Allopathological t1_irurkb8 wrote

I’m a healthcare worker and a first responder.

No damn way I’m going near a mentally ill person waving a knife. I’ve been punched, scratched, bit, kicked, and spat on by plenty of patients who are “mentally unwell” and admitted to the hospital and the fact they “didn’t realize what they were doing” didn’t make my ribs any less bruised.

I’m sick of people expecting healthcare workers to be martyrs. I worked too hard and for too long to get killed by some fucked up dickhead who thinks I’m a space invader trying to abduct him. “Oh but you swore an oath” bro I’m not getting stabbed just because you guys don’t want to deal with the problem yourselves. Walk the other way and leave them alone. But on the off chance they really do lose it and hurt an innocent person just remember you’re complicit.

Let the cops deal with it.

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