Typo subthreadalexx_kayNovember 1 2014, 05:21:14 UTC
Courtesy of my insomnia...
"Tony Soprano (or more accurately, creator David Chase) did more to reduce the stigma of "getting help", i.e. seeing a psychiatrist, than any article in the Guardian, or maybe even all the articles ever in the Guardian all together, ever did, aeb the Italian-American blue-collar (and sometimes crime-involved) men who have decided that they need therapists, too, and thronging our clinic."
Is "aeb" some word I don't know, or a typo for "and"?
"word has it that (still trying to confirm this) that"
Re: Typo subthreadsidereaNovember 1 2014, 19:45:48 UTC
Thanks! Fixed the latter two.
"aeb" should present in your browser with a little dashed underline or similar linkish sign, indicating that it's got an "abbr" tag on it, and if you mouse over it and wait a moment, it will expand the acronym.
(I am willing to entertain the possibility that maybe I know too much HTML for my own good.)
It seems extraordinarily likely to be the case, just going on the first rule of politics: Follow the Money. The AARP is by far the biggest spender among lobbying organizations that can make anything like a straight-faced claim to being grass-roots organizations. Where's the rich lobbyist for the poor?
I have lots of references. I am working on The Mighty Epic Flame About Medicaid: A Story In At Least Two Parts So Far (~8k words and not close to done). I just don't have their sources. "Doctors say." Also, my clinic director once showed me the books, but the numbers she showed me (1) were from the time of the incompetent biller who was fired for incompetence, (2) did not align with what I see in either the news or at the pertinent CMS and state government websites, and (3) did not align with certain known bits of reality, to wit, that Medicaid was paying my clinic less for my time than the clinic paid me. It is not outside the realm of possibility that my clinic really was losing two dollars on every Medicaid patient session they paid me for, but that would be extraordinary even by our f'd up standards
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Hi! Great post. I work with elderly patients. There's still a lot of shame among them about mental illness. I don't see it otherwise though so I think your points are otherwise correct. You've obviously thought about the issues. I'd love to write more but not on my iPhone app!
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"Tony Soprano (or more accurately, creator David Chase) did more to reduce the stigma of "getting help", i.e. seeing a psychiatrist, than any article in the Guardian, or maybe even all the articles ever in the Guardian all together, ever did, aeb the Italian-American blue-collar (and sometimes crime-involved) men who have decided that they need therapists, too, and thronging our clinic."
Is "aeb" some word I don't know, or a typo for "and"?
"word has it that (still trying to confirm this) that"
I think the first "that" is misplaced/redundant.
"something to so wrong"
ITYM "go".
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"aeb" should present in your browser with a little dashed underline or similar linkish sign, indicating that it's got an "abbr" tag on it, and if you mouse over it and wait a moment, it will expand the acronym.
(I am willing to entertain the possibility that maybe I know too much HTML for my own good.)
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I have heard this asserted before, but would have to go digging for a reference. And ugh.
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