Unfortunately federal student loans got kneecapped, which is going to make it even harder for anyone to get through medical school if they aren't already from a rich family.
The effects of this won't be felt for about 7 years, since it takes a good while for someone to get through such education.
So suddenly America's doctor shortage problem will get a LOT worse since there will be far fewer new doctors entering the field to replace those that are retiring or quitting.
What do? Wellllll the damage cannot be easily fixed, since it would take about ANOTHER 7 years to undo it to allow students to afford to become doctors and get through the pipeline.
Solution? That's right. Just import some foreign doctors to patch the problem up immediately. Get yourself a nice cheap Dr. Patel to come to America to be your primary care physician. If you thought the number of asian doctors is already bad, it's going to fucking explode.
The fact that she's willing to put the entire planet in jeopardy just to avoid giving up her baby also made me not really want to sympathize with her.
I know it's not pragmatic but isn't it a good thing to show a mother willing to defend her child even in such extreme circumstances?
Like, do you not sympathize with Joel from The Last of Us either when he chooses to save Ellie?
This is probably what America is going to look like in a decade or so. The government halved the cap on grad school loans and fewer people can afford the med school. The squeeze won't be felt right away since it takes several years for someone to become a doctor, which means it'll also take several years before any decision reversing will bring it to normal. So the knee-jerk option will be to import a bunch of (cheap) foreign doctors, likely from India to meet demands.
People also had a lot of babies because it was expected for like a third of them to not make it to adulthood.
Also it's not so much that peasants had it easier, but you now have generations of people who KNOW it CAN be easier.
You got people who grew up middle class, often single income, taking family vacations a year to Universal Studios or the beach or whatever. And you got them working the same as their parents and only a fraction to show for it.
You got people who grew up with the clear message: it's irresponsible to have kids you can't afford. So what are responsible people going to do if they're already struggling to support themselves? They're not going to shit out kids.
Wealthy people nagging everyone else to have kids even if it leaves you poor absolutely rubs people the wrong way. Breed us more Walmart shelvers, peons.
He had a combination of brain damage from the decades of drug abuse, Parkinson's, and still suffering from injuries from a bike accident about 20 years ago.
I'm not sure if he arranged his own death or if his body gave out once he was done with his final performance, the mind can have such an odd influence on the rest of the body. Either way I hope he's at peace.
Japan has a low tolerance for foreigners. It'll give tourists a pass for some things, but you're an Other if you don't speak perfect Japanese and if you do speak it you're expected to behave exactly as a Japanese person. Which can be very difficult for someone who didn't grow up in Japan (and this isn't an entitlement thing, back when Japan's economy was booming in the 1980's several books had to be made about Japanese etiquette for people meeting Japanese for business because the Japanese etiquette is so different and and rigid), but at the same time.....this is a challenge you choose to accept by living in Japan.
Don't like it? Don't live there.
I think doctors sequenced his genome a couple years back and found out he's got mutations that are linked to drug resistance of some type. As in, the type that has prevented him from dying like 50 times in his life, and not that he can't get high. He still fucked up his brain real hard from drug abuse, but he's a scientific marvel that he lasted so long.
It's sort of like once every million or so people you got that guy who smokes like a chimney and loves alcohol and lives cancer-free until he's 95 and then just dies of a heart attack.
The industry is just vile. Most families are busy working themselves and can't afford to act as grandma's live-in nurse, but community living/nursing homes demand thousands of dollars per month to look after grandma. But their quality of care is often shit and rife with elder abuse. But the caregivers are also paid shit and the money is pocketed by the scum on top.
Almost nobody in their right mind wants these jobs because if you want shit pay, getting yelled at, and mopping up diarrhea you might as well go work at McDonald's and get some free fries out of the deal.
I'm starting to think those old farts who just sell everything and go live on a cruise ship for the final 2-5 years of their lives isn't such a bad idea.
"Sure Trump is protecting the richest and most powerful kid diddlers on the planet but at least we're not getting a black Superman out of the deal!" That you, that's exactly your rationality.
Goddamn fuck
I want the swamp to be drained
I didn't vote for another goddamn Shrek
Yeah this is still a long ways off to be used for human trials. A womb isn't just a sack of nutrients, there's constant signaling back and forth that causes minute changes in nutrient flow and chemistry. It's why it's been so difficult to develop an artificial womb.
And it's one thing to grow a lamb (that was already partially developed) to full term. Sure it's a live, but is it healthy? How does its development into an adult compare to regular lambs? Will the lifespan be comparable? How about the quality of life?
This is more like a future method of helping babies born prematurely not face a lifetime of permanent defects due to a sub-optimal development. They can be put in this artificial womb to grow better than the current methods we have. Which is absolutely a good thing, but this is years off and even more years off when it comes to completely replacing natural wombs.