Remember when the AMA fought against Nurse Practitioners having increased responsibilities in care providing settings?

Look at the trains - we said things would break if we allowed workers to strike to pursue things like better staffing ratios and safer working conditions. The strike was prevented/broken and East Palestine is paying for the greed of the railroads.

It seems like these hospitals *will* break as a matter of when, not if. The number of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other neurodegen. disease patients is going to increase significantly as boomers and millenials age.

The for-profit hospitals' dilemma during the pandemic (a short-term shock of many patients everywhere at the same time) could not be resolved by clever management of travel nurses. Just-in-time deliberately removes as much slack as possible to turn it into profit, patients and care providers be damned.

We can pull the band-aid off sooner or we can deal with infection and sepsis later, but the bill for these profits that most of us don't see will come due.

Knew some scientists in Philly who were *always* having coke zero and pulling 9-12 hours days 6-7 times a week most of the time.

I'll never know whether or not that was spiked, but I have my suspicions.

It's so strange to me, I grew up in Orlando and went to school with someone whose father worked with another lawyer at his firm in the late nineties.

There used to be youtube videos of him getting *trashed* at this place in Orlando called Will's Pub.