McCarthy is an incredible writer but the tone and subject of The Road are very bleak. I enjoyed the language and author’s skill but don’t think I could reread it.
I am obliged to recommend Blood Meridian by the same author if you haven’t read it. It is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Seriously, read it if you haven’t.
If someone is obviously arguing in bad faith this can be good advice. But logical fallacies are common even in folks who are genuine so I don’t think it’s totally productive to say you should never argue with someone who presents a fallacy. Most people are not perfectly logical and pointing out the fallacy may help them grow if they are not a bad faith actor.
Yes there’s always a team in the room. I was only stating that in this case it seemed like from the court summary, the other team members knew there was a problem with bleeding but were unaware he was resecting the liver until he pulled it out of the patient. It sounded like because of the excessive blood they simply couldn’t see well.
I’m not sure if you mean this generally before the case happened, or if you meant, did nobody try to stop him during the case?
I think before the case, there were a lot of people who were uneasy with him because of the types of mistakes he was making, although these were generally smaller, less serious mistakes. I think there had been some scrutiny of his practice, but I don’t recall the details.
During the case, it sounded like there was a complication with bleeding which partially obscured visibility in the operative field. The people in the room knew that the case was not going well because of the bleeding, but it wasn’t until he actually pulled the liver out of the patient that anyone realized how wrong things had gone.
There was a post about this case a month or two ago on Lemmy. I can’t find the link right now, I’m sorry. But in there, someone had posted a link to the case files for the court. You could see summaries of testimony from multiple nurses and scrub techs. The short version was that many of them had strong reservations about the surgeon prior to this case due to other errors. When this case happened, they were all pretty certain it was not the spleen immediately.
Ok but for real Andor is only a Star Wars show because of setting. The story, dialogue, etc are all a cut above anything else. Most of the things you think of with Star Wars (light sabers, the Force, etc) are really not part of the story. I hope you’ll give it a chance because I’m not a huge fan of Star Wars (OT is good but that’s about it for me) but Andor is fantastic.
You left out the bonus panel!
When he said “we’ll give them a check” he meant taxpayers, not himself. He is too smart to pay taxes no doubt.
I wear sunglasses anytime it’s daytime and I’m outside, cloudy or not. They are prescription and polarized so it feels like I have super vision with them. Please don’t conflate sunglasses with her insanity.
Thanks for sharing that was an engrossing read. Like most of these situations it looks like there was significant system failure leading up to the event. You’re absolutely right he should have been removed long before this.
Yep, you can actually see what seems to be a microphone pack clipped on the bottom of her shirt.
If that doesn’t scream “unscripted” I don’t know what does. /s
Yes the part few days I’ve had this happen several times. Had to close and restart the app to get it to function again.
iPhone 16 Pro Max iOS 26.4.1
Expect federal intervention in this situation in 3….2….
Hey I care about this. Hearing that Amazon data centers are literally being bombed is like a little spot of joy in all of this.
Well in radiology we are searching images for specific findings so the generative slop problem isn’t the issue for us, it will be being overwhelmed with false positives or false negatives with a time pressure to go faster. I’ve been trying to follow the impacts of these models on the coding professions and I do not envy you at all. It really does seem like a rock and a hard place right now.
Or healthcare… 😭
I find the 12-hour practical for daily life. But I put my phone on 24 hour time when I’m traveling and find that to be helpful.