Tag Archives: Geisinger

Quora Query: What Will it Take for the United States to Acquire Universal Healthcare?

Posted on 14 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

There are two sets of answers to this query: Political and operational/organizational. Let me address each in its turn. The Political Issues: There is, to my analysis, nothing special about the United States and its people that make a rational … Continue reading →

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Quora Query: As Someone Who isn’t a Conservative, What Do You Wish All Conservatives Would Start Doing?

Posted on 14 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

I normally don’t venture into this area on Quora, sticking to health care and science. However, events of the past several days have unnerved me, so I respond – more or less – to the query. In reality, I wanted … Continue reading →

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Quora Query: How Likely is an Authoritarian State if the US Gets UBI, Universal Healthcare, and Universal College?

Posted on 14 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

What an odd query! How likely is an authoritarian state – in the United States – if we, finally, get a national health system, a rational educational system, and UBI? Really? Firstly, in case you haven’t noticed, the present US … Continue reading →

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Quora Query: Is the UK NHS the Best Healthcare System in Europe?

Posted on 14 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

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How, indeed. Perhaps the first principle in answering this query is to point out, briefly, how healthcare systems are judged and ranked. This is done in multiple ways: Ease of access; waiting times; quality of each encounter, this itself is … Continue reading →

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Quora Query: As a Doctor, What’s the Most Shocking Thing to Transpire While Delivering a Baby?

Posted on 14 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

Shocking? SHOCKING?? On the one hand, as I am not an Obstetrician, I don’t have many stories about assisting women in the delivery of their children. On the other hand, however, there was a time – when I was a … Continue reading →

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Quora Query: Why do you believe that people who abuse the healthcare system in the US should be enabled, through not telling them, in no uncertain terms, that their non-emergency issues are just that…non-emergencies?

Posted on 14 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

There are several fine answers to this query – see, particularly, the one by former Nurse Mara Obelcz on Quora. And just as there are several answers to your question, there are several – many – reasons that people come … Continue reading →

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Quora Query: What are Some Odd Jobs You Had Before Medical School?

Posted on 14 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

Well, they weren’t exactly “odd jobs”, and most of them weren’t paid, either. I was a student at Grossmont Junior College in El Cajon, CA, and then UC San Diego at a time when we in California had – essentially … Continue reading →

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Quora Query: How do I donate my body to medical research? Can I choose the institution? Is there some reason I might choose one over the other? I’m in Iowa, USA, by the way. I’m a young 70, but a dear friend recently did this and it seems like a wonderful idea.

Posted on 14 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

It IS a wonderful and generous thing to do. I can still remember the start of our anatomy year in medical school. We – as I remember there were 4 or 5 of us to each cadaver – were introduced … Continue reading →

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Quora Query: Can I Get Into Medical School with an Associates Degree Instead of a Bachelor’s Degree

Posted on 14 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

One of the issues with medical students in general is NOT that they are too broadly educated, but – just the opposite – too narrowly so. I once, some years ago, entered into a very public argument with our then-University … Continue reading →

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Quora Query: What can you do if you rack up a huge ER bill, make too much money for assistance, and can’t afford to pay it off in the max 24 months? The lady at hospital said I can pay whatever I can afford but when I called, they said no.

Posted on 14 January, 2020 by AJ Layon

Firstly, I’m sorry you have to deal with this. In a rationale and humane society, healthcare is a right. It is funded from general taxes so you would NEVER worry about this. But we live in a neoliberal America – … Continue reading →

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