It’s pretty telling when a person would rather deal with the quality of life impacts of a chronic illness than the quality of life impacts of having to use a specialty pharmacy.
@briankrebs Yeah, so there’s a law that was passed under Biden that requires healthcare providers to give requested records within a few days. Whether it’s followed is a different story but it exists as of 2024. So recent attempts were made to improve this.
I’m a psychologist and literally had a conversation with a colleague 3 days ago about my serious concerns our records were going to be opened up to AI data goblins. We don’t use the biggest EMR (Epic) but the one we use just got acquired and AI has already shown up on the platform with the usual “assurances.” This will be bad.
Look, I’ve heard a lot of shit in my time as a psychologist. Hell, I worked at the VA on the west side of Chicago. And YET… hearing that bodybuilders are paying women for breastmilk, touting it as the “most anabolic natural supplement”
I *may* have used Eddie Murphy's "Delirious" as a teaching tool for my 14 yo on how to respond to someone trying to make her feel shitty about herself.
“We’ve reached DEFCON fuck”Clinical Psychologist. Academic Maleficent. Former NIH-funded Associate Professor at a fancy Midwest university. Now I spend most of my time in the non-profit space. Analog childhood, digital adulthood. Navigating the great enshittification. Lots of swearing and gallows humor. Part of the great November 2022 Twitter migration. Posts auto-delete at 2 weeks. :cubs: :bears:Under his eye. She/Her.Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦#teamOrca