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mattd121794 t1_je083rx wrote

Reply to 'We just don’t need this in our neighborhood': Proposed asphalt plant draws crowd to Nashua Planning Board by NewEnglandBlueberry

This meeting had been rescheduled so many times I didn’t even know it was finally happening. Wish I could have gone to voice my concern as well. This best not be approved, there’s no reason for a site like this anywhere near either a river or downtown area. Place it in this company owners backyard if he’s so adamant about how non toxic it is.

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BelichicksBurner t1_je07mar wrote

Reply to comment by bigdog24681012 in What’s this symbol? Seen on cmc hospital in a more discreet area by notababyimatumor

This is literally all NH hospitals right now. CMC just had the most glaring example of it...but other hospitals aren't doing much better. They're all totally desperate for medical professionals. And if you think they're bad? Go check out some of the non-profits who don't have hospital level money.

I've seen docs hired by places that wouldn't even bring those same docs on for interviews 10 years ago. I've literally listened to doctors with severe mental illnesses go on unhinged tirades during team meetings...and nothing is done because the non-profits can't afford to lose them. I've seen prescribers who have severe health issues, to the point where they can't walk and have to have their nurses proofread all their notes that are still employed because they don't want to have a year long vacancy at the prescriber position while they to find someone new. The situation is quite dire and often stems from the same problem as everywhere else: rate of pay.

NH simply doesn't pay as well. Combine that with one of the higher property tax rates in the nation along with one of the highest costs of living...it just makes more sense if you're a medical professional to go work in MA. Sucks but until something changes, we're gonna keep seeing this bullshit. It isn't just medical professionals either, it's everywhere in NH. That's why Sununu is so desperate to bump state workers pay: they can't even get people in the door for interviews because the state pay rate for a LOT of their jobs have dipped well below market rate. I know for a fact that my job literally pays twice as much in other states and three times as much when compared to the same job on the federal pay scale.

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golemsheppard2 t1_je07emy wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in What’s this symbol? Seen on cmc hospital in a more discreet area by notababyimatumor

You aren't wrong. I work in healthcare and the C (corporate) suites have fucking ruined medicine. I'm burnt out from working weekend shifts seeing 60 patients in the waiting room who need care but no place to see and treat them because the ED is operating at half capacity because admin wouldn't authorize overtime for our nurses so we had to close half the department from Friday night to Monday morning. Then these same assholes who make these penny wise dollar foolish decisions give themselves multimillion dollar bonuses for their brave financial stewardship. I watched these same clowns call security to escort them out of the hospital because it leaked that they took the first batch of covid vaccines for themselves and left ER docs and ICU nurses waiting another two weeks for restock during peak covid. So I get the sentiment that modern day healthcare is run by used car salesmen who pretend to be sanctimonious stewards of medicine who only care about patient outcomes while also emailing their front line staff nastygrams that we are admitting too many sick people who don't have health insurance.

But CMC has its own specific reputation of all that plus having an incompetent cardiothoracic surgeon who has a body count which rivals most serial killers and the hospital, according to the Boston Globes spotlight research, allegedly buried all this as he was an attractive face of their organization and CT surgeons bring in bags and bags of cash in billable procedures. There are allegations that CMC failed to report surgical errors to the NH board of medicine as required by law. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy gets his own season on Dr. Death.

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TheMobyDicks t1_je06n77 wrote

Reply to 'We just don’t need this in our neighborhood': Proposed asphalt plant draws crowd to Nashua Planning Board by NewEnglandBlueberry

I'd take an asphalt plant over a paper plant any day. Have any of you ever been to Rumford, ME on a foggy day. Egad, the smell is hideous. And then, of course, there's the cancer thing.

Still though, I don't wish the asphalt plant on those folks.

A question, since I know nothing about asphalt plants. Does it have to be on town water/sewer? If not, why not build it somewhere away from residents?

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[deleted] t1_je06jpf wrote

Reply to comment by RunAccomplished6085 in Any recommendations for a high end restaurant to celebrate an anniversary in the southern New Hampshire area? by teddyjr32378

It's been years since that last time I went, so there is always the possibility that they have revamped the type of offerings. I went when they were relatively new and the chef was doing a lot of spoonful sized servings that were impressive, but not at all sustaining.

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XEssentialCryIceIs t1_je065j1 wrote

Reply to comment by last1stding in 'We just don’t need this in our neighborhood': Proposed asphalt plant draws crowd to Nashua Planning Board by NewEnglandBlueberry

You have no idea. This dude first cropped up with his caricature of a lawyer at a planning meeting last year trying to push this shit.

The owner insists that the smell isn't bad and that he lives near his other asphalt plant in Massachusetts. The residents there also fought him on that plant, lost, and litigation is ongoing because the whole town fucking reeks of that shit. He keeps insisting the fumes are all within "safe levels".

They flat out lied to the planning board about community pushback in Mass.

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