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by alistairSH 429 days ago
And why are skin cancers being referred to a hospital at all?

Personal experience in the US... treatment can be done on the spot at the primary dermatologist's office (curettage usually) or referred either to a Mohs specialist or a plastic surgeon (both of whom usually treat at their office). Short of a melanoma that's progressed/metastasized, I don't think I've ever heard of a skin cancer being treated at a hospital (not saying it doesn't happen, only that that would be an exception, based on personal/family/friend experiences).
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pixl97 429 days ago
I don't really know anything about the UK medical system, but my guess is comparing it with how the US works isn't a good fit.

Just doing a quick google search on dermatologists in the UK mostly pointed at hospitals that offered the service, so may have something to do with that.

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jgerrish 428 days ago
> And why are skin cancers being referred to a hospital at all?

I'm working on deciphering the Google Mock API right now. It's just one of those fucking things you do, you know? Figuring out how to set expectations on parameters, etc. Hundreds of thousands of SDEs and students went through it before it became second nature.

I dream of playing around with some future testing language where I can build mock blocks in a Scratch-like manner. Awesome, eh?

Fuck yeah, Alan Kay.

Maybe I could work on the team that builds it.

But who am I kidding? I get to be pushed into other work while I waste time to filling out unnecessary tax paperwork.

Because to get more medical lab work done, I need to have authentic IRS transcripts.

A written 1040 isn't enough.

Otherwise I have to go to the hospital to get imaging.

It wasn't necessary. Signed fully electronic non-forgible IRS forms for health purposes could have been done with minimal citizen pushback.

With, and this is key, an educated public who understood the economics.

So I'll work on wasting my time educating loved ones on the economics of paper-less forms and all forms of monopolies while I say no to future shows in Chicago or Canada or wherever.

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