Sadly this is how hospital stays are conventionally billed. The cost of being admitted covers only the bed and routine nursing, literally everything else is billed separately. As unfair as it is, the best patients can do is vehemently question the necessity of any interaction with a physician, or else get billed for it. And good luck with that if your case is complicated and you're getting referrals to a wide range of specialists.
And honestly, when you're admitted to the hospital unexpectedly, you're probably not in the frame of mind to be questioning everyone who comes by. I know when I was in for a few days, I only recognized the name of one of the hospitalist doctors that later billed me. And the bills can come months later!
Not to mention the historical "lifetime limits", which only since the ACA have been lifted. You could have an unimaginable great plan with a huge network and no deductible, but an extended hospital would still bankrupt you.
Environments like this aren't worth dealing with, +1 for bailing. When you're looking at new gigs, ask questions about what the culture is like, oriented around work / life balance, and try to get a feeling for the number of people with families. I personally am a single guy with no children, but I like working around family oriented folks because they are used to the idea that you have many aspects of your life that are more important than your job (whether that happens to be family obligations or not).
I think a lot of people like using alert() for debugging because it posses execution. Of course, so do break-points / "debugger" statements.
Git pre-commit hooks for alert are helpful since few and far between are the circumstances where an alert is actually wanted in production. While you're at it you can add one for whatever set of profane terms, if you roll like that.
_Doctors can't get jobs because so many people are vying for the same jobs it's difficult to even get a specialty. Nobody will hire you without a specialty._
Source? There is a huge demand for primary care doctors right now ( source: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-06/national/41812... ), and anecdotally, I work for a company that runs primary care practices and we recently hired a recruiter because we are having trouble finding the handful of doctors a year we need to keep growing.
I will never forget the morning I walked by the Waltham Upper Crust location on my way to the commuter rail and watched as workers stripped the place clean. It felt like a victory for everyone who has ever been screwed by an employer and I couldn't help but linger even as I could hear the bells in the distance signaling the inbound train arriving at the station.
> At the very least, regulations designed to protect the financially unsophisticated from themselves are massively hypocritical.
But are they _really_ designed to protect the financially unsophisticated from themselves? These regulations were enacted in response to the great depression. The motivation was to protect SOCIETY from systemic problems rooted in the actions of unsophisticated investors, not to protect the investors from themselves.
I agree that rules designed to protect the stupid from their own stupidity are to be avoided at all costs, but I don't agree that this is an example of such a policy. And I certainly don't buy the idea that people should be able to do whatever the fuck they want, to hell with everyone else, so long as they are not directly causing physical harm or property loss to another person.
There ARE express trains, they're just not scheduled in advance (for example the b line goes express from bu east to Washington to make up for delays quite frequently).
