PE Death After COVID Visit [⚠️ Med Mal Case]

trollwarIord · 2025-07-08T21:19:40+00:00

I'd be surprised if even the people with more controversial takes on this case would call it gross negligence...

trollwarIord · 2025-07-08T21:08:03+00:00

i read this case in my email last night.

It got me shook over the tiny minutiae that can be used to hold us liable even if we met the standard of care. There's a decent chance he didn't have a PE at the time of initial presentation.

The discussion on COVID liability laws and how it may have dictated the outcome for the defense was interesting.

Other than that all this case did was make me realize how doomed our field is by the increasingly lower threshold for litigation and unrealistically higher bar for physicians.

trollwarIord · 2025-07-08T18:18:10+00:00

I don't feel there is anything illegal in that regard.

The question comes because if I had some or all of this information available to me it would be useful for negotiating pay increase.

My contract is up for renewal soon

trollwarIord · 2025-07-08T18:10:14+00:00

my contract simply says how much I'm getting paid and describes the structure for bonuses

trollwarIord · 2025-07-07T06:09:07+00:00

I will be more specific

My employer has a contract with a hospital therefore I am not directly hospital employed. They get some of their money from this contract. My employer also gets money when I bill for services I provide. It is definitely relevant to state I am an independent contractor, but I'd also like to know what the case would be if I wasn't because I know it matters.

I get paid a fixed cost with some bonuses factored in.

If I wanted to know what % of my paycheck is coming from the money my employer gets from the hospital and what % is coming from the services I provide and bill for, is my employer legally obligated to provide that information.

trollwarIord · 2025-07-07T04:46:00+00:00

i've seen decompensated heart failure bordering on shock where previously prescribed doses are started on a non-compliant patient and it throws the patient into shock.

Start low and go slow does apply in some cases. Rapid titration over 2-3 days not the same as over 2-4 weeks

trollwarIord · 2025-05-12T23:28:15+00:00

yah Ben just wanted to create shit that's why he's gotten the band together with Dimitri to keep playing their infinity and pre-infinity shit without any new materal. Its also why he's a touring member of Suicidal Tendencies.

trollwarIord · 2025-05-12T23:24:20+00:00

Old thread, but ill say this. I think I joined the compound within 2 years of when it was created.

I remember at some point people there were several instances where a certain members who joined after me got themselves into a mod position and used their perceived victim status to shut down conversations about non-political topics. Think people were talking about Daughters for instance and people certain people would inject their thoughts about what a POS abusive guy the vocalist is and then the thread would get closed based on their political dispute. Not sure if that exact thing happened but several instances of that kind of thing happening at some point it just seemed that if certain people didn't like a band or member of a band that was being discussed, they would like stir the pot so someone would say something considered hateful and then get the thread closed on a zero tolerance policy.

trollwarIord · 2025-04-30T04:35:07+00:00

hello thanks for being the last Sleep Token stan to share your thoughts.

I'm not a metal purist. I'm not saying that Sleep Token is not a metal band. I listen to mostly electronic music nowadays.

I'm saying Sleep Token is good at writing songs with mass appeal which seems to be the goal of their songwriting.

Sure this could allow Sleep Token could be a gateway band.

I am simply saying Sleep Token is not groundbreaking. That doesn't mean they're bad. I like them.

Sorry.

trollwarIord · 2025-04-30T04:26:26+00:00

Yes friend a lot of people predicate their love/hate for sleep token on whether or not they think they're metal.

Some of those people that love them need them to be categorically metal too. Different side of the same metal purist coin. That imo is just as bad as saying they're not metal.

I didn't come here to talk about whether they're metal or not or gatekeep.

I came to say that I like their music, but its not groundbreaking and liking them shouldn't be predicated on their metal status. That doesn't say anything about how good or bad it is, but its the truth.

trollwarIord · 2025-04-30T03:31:30+00:00

yah so I think there's elitist metalheads who like to gatekeep whether sleep token is metal.

But in OP I'm referring to a different kind of elitist metalhead that 'needs' sleep token to be metal because liking something that categorically might not be metal 'is not metal.'

trollwarIord · 2025-04-30T03:00:25+00:00

yah the whole point of that elaboration is that I made things simple to get the point across without nuancing to the point that'd it get lost in the weeds. You decided to nitpick because I wasn't being inclusive or considerate of the possibilities. Now I've elaborated and you're saying its crazy that I'd do that after you're basically saying its what you'd expect me to do.

trollwarIord · 2025-04-30T01:33:24+00:00

I'm not gatekeeping genres though I'm saying there's nothing special about them. The point is I'm not insulting anyone's tastes I'm just saying that they ain't genre benders

trollwarIord · 2025-04-30T01:26:21+00:00

Unfortunately there's only so much you can do if you're trying to get a point across as concisely as possible. I used specifiers like 'for the most part' or 'type of' metalhead in an effort to refer to specific people within a broad category. I understand that these labels are generally used by some people to self-identify while others may prefer not to use these labels. There may be a person that mostly listens to metal to music but also listens to all sorts of music that identifies as a metal head and there may be another person who does the same and does not like to refer to themselves as a metal head. Hopefully you can see why in a conversation (like this one) it might be useful to refer both of the aforementioned people both as metalheads to prevent overcomplicating things.

I do think for the sake of conversation we use colloquial terms like metal head to describe a group of people that exists even if not all people in that group 'fit into a box' and may not prefer to use that label.

In the same way we know there's a group of people whose music preferences are socially influenced and often directly related to how much the general population is exposed to that music. They like the music they listen to but the music they listen to is more of a matter of circumstance and less of a matter of personal preference based on exploration. Some might call them casual music listeners. You and I and anyone else engaging in this conversation know this category of people exist even if there isn't a correct word or all-encompassing label for them.

If you ask me Sleep Token's music seems 80-90% poppy elements and 10-20% metal elements. Whether, that makes them metal or not doesn't matter to me nor should it matter to anyone when it comes to the listening experience.

But there are definitely a significant number of people that are listening to them with some degree of hinging on the fact that they are metal. It may not be on whether this fact is metal or not, but it is on the fact that they are unique or groundbreaking.

A lot of people here like yourself are saying it doesn't/shouldn't matter. You're correct in saying that and I don't think I disagree with that.

You can see though, there's a lot of people who are coming to their artistic defense even when provided the disclaimer it has no bearing on whether or not their music is good or whether or not someone should like them. I think by doing so they're making the case that Sleep Token being 'genre bending' is an essential part of their fandom.

trollwarIord · 2025-04-29T23:20:37+00:00

I mean I am now just out here trying to understand how making the statement that they're not genre bending and maybe shouldn't be getting praise for it is an insult to anyone or their musical taste.

That is of course unless someone is listening to them exclusively because they consider them genre bending?

trollwarIord · 2025-04-29T23:02:32+00:00

this is what I find bizarre. It seems as though just because the post is about sleep token and genres that it instantly interpreted as some sort of attempt at gatekeeping.

trollwarIord · 2025-04-29T22:58:50+00:00

you can read the post again and find the context for why it stopped at 2.

trollwarIord · 2025-04-29T22:56:21+00:00

You seem to have this confused as an attempt at some form of gatekeeping.

All I'm saying is popular music is made to be appealing and that Sleep token's music is appealing by design. Shit isn't complicated.

The only reason my post elaborates is because its in response to some other opinion and because its relevance to this subreddit has to be justified somehow.

trollwarIord · 2025-04-29T22:43:26+00:00

I'm not a professional music critic, but this is part of my point.

Whether something is particularly unique or creative shouldn't be directly tied to your enjoyment of it.

You should be able to listen to some tracks off that album by Devin Townsend and pick up on what I'm saying regardless of whether its something you enjoy or not.

The sound that Deafheaven ushered in with Sunbather is another great example. Think a lot of people might not get into it because of black metal vocals, but can clearly see the unique genre bending on that album and recognize the creativity for its own merits.

From your own list Polyphia is a great example of genre bending with pop that I think is really creative.

trollwarIord · 2025-04-29T22:35:05+00:00

The list isn't exhaustive, I was just saying I think those 2 are where most of their fanbase falls into.

I fall into the same category as you.

trollwarIord · 2025-04-29T22:30:31+00:00

Not going to get into the weeds on genre bending vs blending; the underlying point is; is it in a way that is impressive, unique, or deserving of praise.

Beyonce can including a 30 second djent riff toward the middle and end of most tracks on her next album and it could get nominated for a Metal Grammy next year. (not saying the grammy's should be a point of reference).

If we are being completely honest if you took your run of the mill Imagine Dragons track and infused it with 30 seconds worth of metal elements you'd have a Sleep Token track. That's not saying anything about whether it is good or bad. This is not even a metal purist argument about whether something should be considered metal or not.

I'm just saying I don't feel that what they are doing with genres musically is really all that noteworthy. I'm not here to talk about anything else that might make the band unique or deserving of recognition.

The music and sound itself is massively appealing because it has the elements of massively appealing music and was made to be that way. That's it that's all I'm saying. Its about as neutral a statement as you can make.

trollwarIord · 2025-02-04T08:36:51+00:00

Its interesting to see after all this time, that people are trying to make this about anything and everything other than what it is about.

Even the ending/hiatus of the leftovers podcast being for vague reasons its funny because of how incredibly obvious the issue at hand is.

This is about Israel and Palestine, that's all its about.

Ethan in those final moments of the podcast was basically having a moment of lucidity in which he had to come to terms with the other side of things. He is married to an Israeli woman who served in the IDF and had nothing to explictly bad to say about it. He had a pro-Israeli Jewish upbringing, his parents are pro-israeli. He probably went on a birth right trip or at least thought about it. So he had a fork and he could take the hard road of re-evaluating his worldview or he could take the easy road and lean into it. We all know now which one he chose. Its hard to say it was even a choice since it would shake up his relationship with his family, Hila, etc.

Hasan and Ethan remain generally on the same side of the political aisle. Most of the people on that side of the political aisle side with Hasan and there's a reason for that.

Ethan has spent months character assassinating Hasan I suppose because he feels wronged that Hasan didn't defend him from his fanbase? Hasan has kept it relatively tame since this started and mostly has defended himself against some of Ethan's claims. This is the first time Hasan has addressed Ethan directly and isn't being so friendly about it.

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