Sarah Wells

Quiet lately.

[Physics Geek @physicsgeek]

"Scientists": We think it's fine to unleash a bioweapon on the population because of our politics

People: ::people respond angrily and with venom::

"Scientists": Oh noes, teh backlash

Me: A real backlash would involve ropes, stakes, honey, and an anthill. Keep going like this and see how long it takes to get there.

[Sarah Wells @SarahWW]

@neoavatara Whooping cough is endemic and even the vaccine is poor protection. I was vaccinated and had whooping cough in my thirties, when vaccination of children was ubiquitous

[alexandriabrown @alexthechick]

There should not be a single solitary H1B for an entry level position.

[Leftwaffen-Watch ⬜️ @LeftwaffenWatch]

Henry Nowak may well have survived if Digwa had called an ambulance or if he hadn’t stolen Henry’s phone and he’d been able to call an ambulance himself

The hospital was a few minutes away

Increase Digwa’s sentence and charge the brother as well

[Sarah Wells @SarahWW]

You persist in your delusion that there is a bright line between those who can work and those who are permanently disabled. There is not, it is a muddy, messy grey area and the most deserving are burdened the most. Rhe sick and injured will be cut off, face delays in care and under treatment - treatment that kept them productive.

[Sarah Wells @SarahWW]

Again you just DO NOT GET IT. They can’t get an attestation that they can’t work, but they will lose benefits the first time their hours drop if there is a flare or complication or needed surgery. If you have no money yiu get no doctor, and even established relationships are disrupted. Its unworkable and unfair. lowlifes who won’t work, addicts, etc, have no burden. poor working people with chronic illness bear the brunt. They will lose their health, their work, and
body function like sight. they will lose their meds. they can lose life as their co diction worsens.

[Sarah Wells @SarahWW]

@DrDiGiorgio Younwant to take away a safety net for contributing people because they get sick. You want to force sick people to work for free. Yet the bill exempts lowlifes and drug addicts from the same burdens.

[Sarah Wells @SarahWW]

@DrDiGiorgio There you go again. Completely dismissing the burdens on sick people who WORK.

[Sarah Wells @SarahWW]

It was absolutely malicious

[Angry Arizonans @AArizonans]

@doc_gero The kid was obviously in distress and they just dismissed it. It was cold and callous and intentional.

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

So either you understand why Alabama was allowed and Virginia wasn’t (different laws) and you’re a liar, or you don’t understand how this works and you’re a moron.

[Brent A. Williams, MD @BrentAWilliams2]

People forget that one of the original goals of the ESRD program in the U.S. was not just to keep people with kidney failure alive, but for them to be able to continue to work.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

We need more men like the one on the right. I feel so bad for the woman in the bathroom, trying to pee while under siege from a yelling, hysterical, obviously male pervert. The absolute state of him, my god. Entitlement upon entitlement.

[Physics Geek @physicsgeek]

@BridgetPhetasy When I mention to some that no such thing exists in real life, they become quite angry. So I say it again.

[Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 @ChristinaPushaw]

Ah yes, the Soviet Union. Famous for cutting taxes and protecting private property rights.

[🐺 @LeighWolf]

@AaronBlake If it’s baseless suspicion, why do I, a long time Virginia resident, have a live ballot for the California primary?

This despite repeatedly informing the state that I left (over ten years ago)?

[Sarah Wells @SarahWW]

@RealLuthen What do you mean “burning the world down”

[Sarah Wells @SarahWW]

@OliLondonTV Should have dealt with the little monster when he was a school aged terror.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

My job is to make sure your surgery center never gets built.

Eleven years, and I have never lost.

The kid had it all lined up. Board-certified, two partners, a lease on a space where he could do the same procedures my client does across town. He showed up to the hearing with a slide deck and patient testimonials.

Adorable.

I did not bring a deck.

I brought one sentence.

“This facility is not necessary.”

That is the whole game.

In this town, you cannot pour a foundation until a board agrees the community “needs” the place. The people who get to argue that you are not needed are the incumbents who would lose the business.

My client gets a seat at the table where his own competition is approved or killed.

I have sat in that chair for eleven years.
I have never once said yes.

The kid drained himself dry to file.

The application alone is the moat: thick, slow, and expensive enough to stop most physicians before they ever reach a vote.

He cleared it anyway, which I respected, right up until I buried him in it.

We said “duplication of services.”
We said “protecting the safety net.”

Language that tested well in 1974 and continues to test well today.

The board tabled him for review.
Review became a year.

The year became a withdrawn lease, and three physicians quietly returned to working for the health system.

You want to know what we were actually protecting?

A physician down the street doing the same procedure for less. Medicare pays us more. Which means commercial pays more. I don’t share.

That is the threat.

Everything else on the record, the duplication, the waste, the safety net, we wrote for the transcript.

Patients kept paying more.

My client called it a win.

I bought a boat last spring.
I named her Certificate of Need.

[Catherine Blaiklock @blaiklockBP]

Summary - the police pulling Henry’s arms back, massively increased the blood flow and opened the wounds - so he went from consciousness and survival to dead in 3 minutes.