And yet it has its share of Yalies, at least Yale employees and some Yale graduates who do their stints in city hall

The solutions, eg homeless shelters, are almost impossible to fit in with holding down jobs and so on and a lot of other things. They can bury you deeper into poverty. If you know the scene, you understand why they’d do almost anything to avoid them. Some of the people in that tent encampment have full time jobs. Homelessness is one of the very hardest conditions to dig out of. It’s hard to explain it unless you’ve been through it or worked closely with people in it. By bulldozing this place the city has added to its troubles, as this was stable and housing is scarce and too expensive

I’ll probably get a bunch of downvotes for this but New haven is so confounding. It comes off like it’s a city of interesting, progressive, intelligent, and creative people but the city itself is run barely competently. It isn’t creative or dynamic. It is utterly lacking in compassion. City hall is kind of reliably nasty in fact. It can’t only be a lack of resources.

Just a few weeks ago alders heard about a homeless man who died on the tracks and about this tent city. You would come away from that hearing thinking this is the absolutely last thing Elicker or the city would do right now but somehow they did, they couldn’t figure out a single thing better than this, and they even had grant money and ideas submitted that about it.

I didn’t vote for Elicker, I am relieved to say.

The title is a little misleading, this short vid contains part of that hearing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9suUcCt0g

Fishbein is a piece of work. He knows darn well that the use of spectral evidence in itself is evidence of false convictions and that it’s inadmissible.

Perhaps he wants to bring back such trials. Any fascist People’s court, like Hitler’s “people’s court,” essentially did the same thing - procedure free, summary trials.

And not for nothing, Wally republicans are running around accusing people today. They’re “possessed” by a mass psychosis, and a greed for money and power.

Wallingford Republicans are pretty weird

So, we can thank the Yale Baseball program for this one. There are so many of these horrible figures graduating from Yale and Harvard.

I had that once. It’s way more violent than the flu. It totally knocked me down. At one point I was scared I should get taken to the ER, that I was about to lose consciousness - just pass out. I couldn’t get up, walk, crawl, anything. That was the peak of it, then it subsided. Whew. You should definitely take this person’s advice. Don’t spread it.

I can imagine some conditions that might be excruciating for me: being quadriplegic AND very sick for a long time. Being in end stage Lou Gehrig for a seemingly interminable amount of time , totally paralyzed from a stroke with no rehab or activity and sick on top of that with cancer or something. Most of what I can imagine being terrifying for me are conditions that are very prolonged where I am both ill and helpless. But I don’t think this law should pass

Done well there are few conditions that can’t find comfort in dying. My mother passed peacefully of cancer with an opioid drip. I’ve had major, invasive surgery with no post op pain at all, none. I don’t think this will end well.

Connecticut voters will happily hop and skip to their legislators to show their support for this law, forgetting, as always, a seemingly enlightened idea is never implemented consistently and will only be as humane and enlightened as the people involved in caring for someone terminally ill. Reality should always be considered when we do this stuff.

And we always will. This law won’t change that

That no one will investigate until some decade study spits out controversial stats - after thousands died that way who didn’t choose to

Down voted because … everyone knows insurance companies in the US are sooo altruistic. /s. Oh, my Medicare advantage plan doesn’t push this, they just stop paying! They just yank any more hospice care. We would never oppose anyone choosing not to die!

It’s so disgusting. That story made me speechless and totally scared to do anything like that here. This country is already twice as nuts as Canada, what are the chances this won’t be abused?

We don’t have anything like universal health care here. And even in Canada I’ve read about abuses. I don’t know. It makes me very nervous. It’s not that I wouldn’t want access to it myself, I am sure under certain conditions I would

Personally, I hate this. End of life pain relief is very good now and it would be few conditions that are so intolerable to my mind to justify it, and no matter what people say, it will be abused. I read stories where it already is in places that have initiated it — I think Canada? Can’t remember. How to navigate all of this is unknown to me. I don’t think abuse can be 100-percent prevented.

“Expensive” too. Gosh, the slippery slope doesn’t waste any time.

Huh, interesting last paragraph

As for the cya of documenting facts and communicating well with patients, that’s great but I meant the other kind of cya where people just plain lie to cover up their miserable treatment. Every nurse and doctor having a bad day pawns it off on the patient who took the brunt of it. Lot of high stress

Yalies do cross dangerously and I hope that changes but driver education has to happen too. The answer to a street tangled with pedestrians is to slow way way down and chill out. Even with education, we’ll continue to get cars and pedestrians who are both oblivious. And I should say, that’s the answer until we implement more brilliant street design. Whalley Ave is a bad combo of cars and pedestrians too

I don’t even know what to say about that because it’s a depressing state of affairs. The profession is very very cya here, more than other places I know just speaking as a patient. It’s the northeast so people move quickly and are less trusting. And they are advised not to resolve things with their patients, but to shut up and let their lawyers escalate the crap out of everything, thus harming the patient more. There are lawsuit shopping patients everywhere I am sure so why trust any patients? But there are so many patients who just want an honest conversation and a fair resolution , such as corrected reports that are riddled with cya fabrications. For more minor care questions, escalating conflicts because of paranoia is common and is so unfortunate.

For more serious errors, it is understandable that fear would be much higher.

Here doctors will come down like a ton of bricks on minor requests for correction. It’s pathetic and really dishonest. I should say many will, not all.

PS: we definitely need more PCPs though, so I hope you come. People wait months to get in as new patients and so many PCPs aren’t taking new patients at all. It’s crazy, so I hope you do come

You’re welcome. It is odd how that CT for “limiting privileges” is so high. Not a medical person so don’t know what that might indicate but the article did suggest that it could be how they define that category.

Just want to add that the problem with the tort reform crowd is that they are captives of insurance companies, chambers of commerce, and professional groups all wanting to save money, not improve oversight of physicians or increase the quality of care, so the fight just continues ad nauseum. If reforms were only in the hands of people who wanted the latter, maybe we’d get a better result. But victims of malpractice need to be made whole. Frivolous cases here get thrown out so fast it’s not funny

First link: CT doesn’t rank that high in malpractice and it appears to be based on payouts, not number of cases.

Second link: only reports the total in dollars, where CT ranks 12th, but awards on average will be higher in states where medical costs and cost of living is higher and in line with that, the Northeastern states rank higher in payouts. (Setting aside caps on awards)

The second link also claims that 99-percent of doctors will face a malpractice claim- absurd unless they are counting everyone who “complains to the manager,” about waiting an hour to see a doctor lol. Most doctors in CT will never face a lawsuit, period, and though I don’t have info on complaints to the licensing board, if we assume it is double even, the board here is mild and known to be pro-doctor.

Third link: interestingly, CT doesn’t rank in the top of any of the categories in this study except for limiting clinical privileges. Probably something to look at.

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https://research.zippia.com/states-that-sue.html

Looking only at the number of med mal lawsuits per capita, this analysis placed CT low indeed on ladder, at 16. This is lower even than Minnesota, that seemingly doctor-happy state with such happy stats in general.

This gives with what I have seen on the court dockets - a pretty reasonable and sober practice area in CT. We aren’t gaga about medical lawsuits.

So, it sounds like what we are really talking about is high payouts ( costs of living in the Northeast being high and no caps) and the interesting aberration about clinical privileges by the licensing board which might have something to do with how they categorize their info more than anything punitive. They don’t suspend licenses much here.

I haven’t crunched the numbers and am not in the medical field but I do have professional experience with the legal system here and know the dockets extremely well. In my experience there are not that many medical malpractice suits in CT. Unless there has been some weird recent uptick, it’s a pretty reasonable number.

What’s super common, like everywhere, are auto accident/personal injury cases, divorces, breach of contract in various forms. Trying to think of what else. But med mal, no, and further, I have to say, the med mal we do have tends to be high quality cases - the firms bringing them are mostly very well qualified. They do their homework before taking and filing a case. They are few but strong, researched prima facie cases and accompanied by affidavits from medical people, which I think are required in initial filings to prevent abuse.

Are you sure your sources are correct about CT? I think you may have the wrong state.

What are you reading that says that, do you have a link?