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Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by rickydroll on Thursday July 11, 2024 @05:38AM (#40934961)
In the US, I am waiting 6 months for an eval appointment to redo an eval to see if a brain problem has progressed enough to put in a shunt.

how is this different from NHS?

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Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by throw73488 on Thursday July 11, 2024 @08:00AM (#40935726)
It is not different, that is the point. Theme of this thread is that NHS is somehow better because it "does not have financial incentives"!
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Re:I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon Now I'm Unemployed and... by rickydroll on Thursday July 11, 2024 @10:05AM (#40936983)
whereas here, if I paid more, I would get faster service, which means there is a financial incentive to provide slow service, pushing people to a higher-priced but not necessarily better-quality service.
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