Certain types of unpredictability cancel each other out. On a large enough scale, a lot of things about us, especially rates of birth and death, tend towards predictability.
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Meanwhile I still haven’t figured out how to get my old doctor’s network to send my records to my new doctor’s network. Apparently filling out and submitting the release forms doesn’t do it. So I’m starting over fresh with no medical history, again, as usual. They’ve already had to redo some of the tests I had done last month. I guess the insurance companies save so much by declaring things out-of-network that they’re happy enough to pay for duplicate tests and treatments.
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That’s pretty dysfunctional.
Maybe your doc could give the records to you. I’ve heard of requirements that they hand them over, although I can’t say whose rule that is.
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It’s important to make sure you ask for your own records in a way that doesn’t make you pay a per-page charge.
It might work better to have your new medical office do the request directly, for “continuity of care”.
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Yes, but that’s not the case of more complicated, less biologically/environmentally driven factors such as birth and death. Taking those examples, which both have histories, how such things are handled vary over time and space. They change according to specific historical context. So, while we can certainly crunch the numbers on birth and death rates and derive some useful historical information, that’s not going to tell you about specific kind of death practices, for example. For that, you need others kinds of evidence.
Like I said, I’m all for using data in historical research, but you have to try and understand specific cultural practices in their own context.
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Right? A marxist is going to have very different conclusions from the same set of data than a more conservative, big man theory kind of historian will have.
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Sounds a lot like psychohistory, which is, I believe, fictional.
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It’s not really secret. There have been several articles about him in Model Railroader over the last 12 years or so.
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Now that I think is sexy.
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Yeah, I imagine there are trains going into tunnels there on a regular basis.
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Makes sense to me. After the last time I had general anaesthetic, I kept saying it felt like my imagination had been extracted along with my gall bladder, and everyone kept laughing at me. But seriously, it took forever to come back, and even now I can’t write fiction like I used to.
General anaesthesia does weird things to you. I’m glad it worked out in Sternburgen’s case.
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potemkin architecture?
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No caffeine during an emergency would cause an even bigger emergency.
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THEY NEVER LEFT.
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