Quote (Bazi @ Oct 17 2023 12:46pm)

I am unquestionably liberal on health insurance and didn’t become so until when I actually started practicing. It breaks my soul when I have to choose between an inferior medication vs financial burden of the patient. Patient gets mad either way, it ain’t my fault lol. Our healthcare training is uncompromising meaning knowing first line therapies for everything in your domain. We know 2nd and 3rd line treatment options if there is a medical reason for it, but really trained to know financial side. Friend of mine, like core group bestie, recently had his doctor order an echocardiogram and my buddy asked me how much it would be. I don’t have the slightest idea, it’s not like there is transparency on costs and this is an insurance question. He’s a Very reasonable guy but still annoyed I couldn’t give him the cost lol

This same erroneous corrupt system is now fucking with our children, so now it pisses me off personally

To ^ofthevoid point . Kids undoubtedly have more stress than we did as kids. I stressed in 5th grade to get home for dragon ball z. These kids are getting death threats by 2nd grade now. A different world. There is no moral reason kids shouldn’t be offered therapy before medications

Quote (thesnipa @ Oct 17 2023 11:52am)

stressing made sense, Vegeta had been building up that blast for an entire episode!

on the topic of therapies vs SSRIs all i can offer as solace is the knowledge MANY parents would decline therapy. even if it were free. my wife has countless parents who qualify for free therapy to help their autistic kids and maybe half actually take their kids to it. most are too lazy to even drive them there or clean the house enough to allow therapists home visits.

Quote (thesnipa @ Oct 17 2023 12:52pm)

stressing made sense, Vegeta had been building up that blast for an entire episode!

on the topic of therapies vs SSRIs all i can offer as solace is the knowledge MANY parents would decline therapy. even if it were free. my wife has countless parents who qualify for free therapy to help their autistic kids and maybe half actually take their kids to it. most are too lazy to even drive them there or clean the house enough to allow therapists home visits.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Oct 17 2023 12:52pm)

Initially I was in the camp that said cyber-bullying wasn't real because you could always log off. At the time, that was correct. You could just log off because we were all anonymous on the internet. Even if they found my d2jsp account I could make a new one. Nobody could track me between forums. Etc.

I cannot imagine being a kid today with such a non-anonymous internet with how horrible children can be to each other. There is no logging off anymore.

Quote (Bazi @ Oct 17 2023 01:01pm)

Autism is the absolute perfect example

It has quite rightly been recognized as a spectrum illness and requires therapy for normal functioning. ASD kids to just fine with therapy anywhere along the middle and mild spectrum and many excel. It just has to be recognized and started early, which means that insurance fight needs to start early. Autism Is further complicated because they need to see speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy and each of these is a different battle

I don’t take solace that parents would refuse therapy because at the end of the day they will be sitting next to our kids at school and for one next generation to thrive I think everyone has to be lifted. Maybe this is naive or idealistic. At minimum, we shouldn’t have a structure in place that makes it hard to get that therapy. Also if you’re lower socioeconomic it’s hard to take off work to to therapy that is business hours. It’s a layered problem

Quote (thesnipa @ Oct 17 2023 01:04pm)

That is the case for things like line therapy and other similar types, parents needing to take kids after school hours. but at least for my wife's program ST, OT, and PT are offered free of charge and they get the kids right from the daycare or kindergarten so there's no cost or time constraint. a sad number of parents decline, because "its just a phase". denial your kid has autism causes far worse outcomes. its tragic.