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Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by DataDive on Thursday July 11, 2024 @02:10AM (#40934054)
The channel contains 10-hour-long videos of natural sounds.

Maybe the post is less about what is right or wrong in medicine and more about the author having gone into the wrong field, which is opposite to what they enjoy in life.

Perhaps all along, the author misunderstood what modern medicine is about and how life really works. There is no miracle cure that would restore the neural system.

There is a miracle prevention however, be active, exercise, eat well, sleep well, enjoy life, contribute to society. That will help your back more than surgery once things go bad.

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Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by jpcookie on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:42AM (#40934486)
Yeah "positive thinking and going with the flow will fix disease". Tell me: why didn't everyone 1000 years ago live to be a hundred everywhere? Oh that's right: because it's not that simple.
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Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by sethammons on Thursday July 11, 2024 @08:28AM (#40935949)
People long ago seem to all have great, straight teeth, and strong bones. Also a lot of them were killed by a rock to the head. Give and take, I guess
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Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by trilbyglens on Thursday July 11, 2024 @01:25PM (#40938758)
Lol.

Or dead in childbirth at 14, or dead from gangrene from a small cut, or dead from diabetes or asthma or simple nearsightedness.

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Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by willsmith72 on Thursday July 11, 2024 @01:48PM (#40938968)
You think more people used to die from fighting in ancient than in modern times?
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Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by sethammons on Thursday July 11, 2024 @11:33PM (#40942549)
Absolutely. We live in the most peaceful and least violent age of all recorded human history.

https://towardsdatascience.com/has-global-violence-declined-...

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Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by deepburner on Thursday July 11, 2024 @12:36PM (#40938333)
"Maybe this person who did this for 20 years did not know what they were doing" is such an HN take.
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