I’ve been seeing a lot of support for the killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO on social media but I didn’t expect to see this! I’m on Medscape.com, “it’s where the doctors go!”
Many physicians reacted with the opposite of sympathy to the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson this week, reflecting pent-up frustration and anger over what they described as the health insurer’s routine denials of care for sick or dying patients.
The shocking killing in New York City sparked a wave of antipathy from doctors and patients for the nation’s largest health insurer, which Thompson had led since 2021. UnitedHealthcare, a division of the conglomerate UnitedHealth Group, insures about 50 million Americans and reported more than $281 billion in revenue in 2023. Thompson received compensation of more than $10 million in 2023.
“I’m waiting for a prior authorization before I shed any tears,” wrote Reddit user KR1735, listed as an internal medicine doctor, on the subreddit r/medicine….. [article continues]
The article has gotten 1827 Likes since it came out Dec 6th (that’s a lot of likes on this gated site!)
Mark your calendar! On Thursday December 19th at 10:30am and 7pm, the Madera Drama Club will be staging the Grimms’ Fairy Tale “The Girl Who Left Home to Find the Shivers” in the Madera MPR. – Directed by Lew Williams, Assistant Directed by Lee Sonko (and Abigail is one of the three “Girl” characters)
Abigail decided with a group of her friends to put on a holiday singing performance with her newly formed “CC Club”, Christmas Carol Club!
They thought up the idea on their own, asked the principal when they could do the show, made their own flyers, and gosh darn, it’s happening!
Sonic installing fiber on the pole near my house on November 27th, 2024 :-)
I’m thrilled to say Sonic internet just scheduled me for an upgrade to their fiber! I’ve had Sonic through AT&T’s fiber at 50 megabit for 5 years and it’s been great. But the upgrade will give me 10 GIGAbit, and it’ll cost LESS per month!
I had gigabit fiber in Berkeley, and yeah, the internet felt that much closer! Also, in my experience, cable internet was “usually” fast but sometimes had high latency, but Sonic fiber (and even the Sonic DSL I had in San Francisco years ago) was always very “snappy”!
I’m on Potrero near Richmond and they scheduled me for December 4th. I’ve had Sonic for (OMG) 19 years through various homes in the bay area and I’ve never heard a person that didn’t speak very highly them. If you want to sign up, now’s the time. You could use my referral code and get a free month if you like: http://sonic.com/referral/89863eh7h
As part of a large, funded research project, I’m looking for locations where people spend large amounts of time under flickering lights. If you know of such locations, please reach out to me! Please don’t reach out to the owners of the lighting yet, that would be the job of the lead researchers.
You can verify the lighting flickers by setting your phone to record on super-slow mode and record a short video. If the resulting video flickers like this, or this you’re on the right track!
The best locations for this research project have ballast-bypass lighting, where the old fluorescent ballast was removed and replaced with LED-based tubes. But any area where people spend lots of time under flickering lighting is worth mentioning!
Great locations would be:
– locations or organizations where tens to thousands of people use lighting that flickers
– anywhere in the US
– K-12 school classrooms
– offices
– academic testing centers
– industrial work spaces
Finding these locations could make a big difference and we need your help!
To recap: If you know of places where people spend large amounts of time under flickering lighting, please email me at Lee@Lee.org.
Please forward this to anyone you think should get it.
Best regards,
Lee Sonko lee.org/flicker
#FlickeringLightProject
We are RVing to Morro Dunes RV Park and Pinnacles National Park over Thanksgiving! I’m excited that this will be our first real “mini-vacation” in Gallahop, our RV! We went to Yellowstone on a 2 week maxi-vacation over the summer that was terrific!
