Alvaro Hidalgo

Rationalist, loved to be proved wrong, love to read and travel, perhaps a bit autistic. $TSLA holder, but still to buy my first Tesla.

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@GadSaad I am really curious as to where in the US you will be moving to. I would bet Texas... ?

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You can claim whatever you want, and group all doctors in whatever way you think we should "talk". I earned my MD. I earned all I accomplished and nothing you say can take that away from me. My name is perfectly spelled for you to look up what my credentials are. But, my opinions stand on their own.

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@UncleFjester @SarahisCensored I have an MD. I completed residency. I have recently given up on actually practicing my specialty after over 20 years. You can look me up. UCLA grad.

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When I have literally "stabbed" people in the chest, mostly with a needle to relieve a pneumothorax, and then opened up their chest to put in a tube or, only twice, actually opened up their chest with a scalpel and other instruments, it was always because I thought that was the only way we had a chance to save a life. So, I don't have nightmares based on what I did then. My nightmares come from when I made a mistake and missed a diagnosis.

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@CarolynKaronka @SarahisCensored Well, it depends on what they are trying to do to you.

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I can comprehend why some people are not "like us". It is pathological, IMO. Although some might argue it is built into our survival instincts. We, in our violent responses, are in a continuum. I, personally, could not just stab someone across the neck, even though I have done something similar in order to establish airway for a patient.
It also has a lot to do, I think, because when I actually cut someone's neck open, I knew I was doing it to try to save them.

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@DanaDemyst @SarahisCensored I am not sure. It is careless disregard for another person's life. But, I am not a psychiatrist so I can't make a definitive diagnosis.

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@DevilsInJukebox @SarahisCensored I am not sure about this. I am only an ER doc, not a Psychiatrist. But, I would posit that doing something like this is a good indication of careless disregard of someone else's life and that acting such a violent action is very very worrying.

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@queenie4rmnola Ha, ha, ha. Black people, just like any other people, only deserve equal treatment under the law. That's it.

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I was trained as a doctor. An Emergency Room doctor and, as such, I have been trained to do really gruesome things to people in order to save their lives. I have had to cut open people's chests, I have been trained to cut their necks, stick needles into places you would not be comfortable doing. Still, I shudder to imagine myself sticking a blade outside of those scenarios into someone's neck or chest. No matter how much I might imagine hating the person, the action would be so against my instincts... maybe as a soldier in Stalingrad I might somehow become desensitized enough to be able to do that. But, as a doctor that has had to do some really gruesome stuff I can say, IMHO, that even with training, you would never feel crass enough to simply stab someone in the chest.

[Alvaro Hidalgo @erharuspex]

I was trained as a doctor. An Emergency Room doctor and, as such, I have been trained to do really gruesome things to people in order to save their lives. I have had to cut open people's chests, I have been trained to cut their necks, stick needles into places you would not be comfortable doing. Still, I shudder to imagine myself sticking a blade outside of those scenarios into someone's neck or chest. No matter how much I might imagine hating the person, the action would be so against my instincts... maybe as a soldier in Stalingrad I might somehow become desensitized enough to be able to do that. But, as a doctor that has had to do some really gruesome stuff I can say, IMHO, that even with training, you would never feel crass enough to simply stab someone in the chest.

[Alvaro Hidalgo @erharuspex]

I was trained as a doctor. An Emergency Room doctor and, as such, I have been trained to do really gruesome things to people in order to save their lives. I have had to cut open people's chests, I have been trained to cut their necks, stick needles into places you would not be comfortable doing. Still, I shudder to imagine myself sticking a blade outside of those scenarios into someone's neck or chest. No matter how much I might imagine hating the person, the action would be so against my instincts... maybe as a soldier in Stalingrad I might somehow become desensitized enough to be able to do that. But, as a doctor that has had to do some really gruesome stuff I can say, IMHO, that even with training, you would never feel crass enough to simply stab someone in the chest.

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@IsaacHayes3 I don't know what evidence you can claim that justifies a human being murdering another human being other than self defense in what any reasonable person would see such action as an imminent threat.

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@DestroyNations @MaryAnnreports There are some crimes, as those driven by passion, that are actually amenable to rehabilitation. Whether this is one of those is subject to study.

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@HollyLaws9 It seems to me, @HollyLaws9, that some of us have been left homeless. Thank you for letting me know we still have a (small) community.

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This guy is one of my favorite politicians at the moment. He speaks the truth and his values, I'm sad to say, are more aligned with mine now than those of the Democratic Party, which I was proud and happy to align with in the not so distant past. I'm not sad because he is a Republican and I find myself agreeing with him more often than not, I'm sad because of how insane our left has become.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Hey Jasmine…

Black pilot here.

I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.

I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.

Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.

Nobody lowered the standards for me.

Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”

That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.

Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.

I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.

And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.

They care whether the pilot is qualified.

Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.

And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.

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I honestly want to believe he can be made to see the huge mistake he made and perhaps have some kind of introspection to know what he did was abhorrent. I would, of course, subject him to many a psychological evaluation before deciding. It is quite possible he is actually a psychopath, in which case he should be kept away from society forever.

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I honestly feel bad for Karmelo. I can't help it. 17, probably raised in a way that led to this in some way. However, I feel worse for the dead teen. I would not argue for the death penalty in this case, but he has to be responsible for the death of an innocent human being. I also want to believe he can be rehabilitated. So... IMHO 30 years would be fair to me.

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After all the testimony and evidence, there is no other rational verdict than guilty. How anybody in their right mind will label this "racism" is incomprehensible to me. I would have seriously entertained a conviction for second degree murder, but I would have to get better educated as to that distinction. The fact that this might be used by a certain demographic (and I don't mean black here), to riot or cause mayhem is also incomprehensible to me.