“Medical Roundup #2” by Zvi

Previously: #1

It feels so long ago that Covid and health were my beat, and what everyone often thought about all day, rather than AI. Yet the beat goes on. With Scott Alexander at long last giving us what I expect to be effectively the semi-final words on the Rootclaim debate, it seemed time to do this again.

Bad News

I know no methodical way to find a good, let alone great, therapist.

Cate Hall: One reason it's so hard to find a good therapist is that all the elite ones market themselves as coaches.

As a commentor points out, therapists who can’t make it also market as coaches or similar, so even if Cate's claim is true then it is tough.

My actual impression is that the elite therapists largely do not market themselves at all. They instead work on referrals and [...]

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Outline:

(00:24) Bad News

(01:27) Good News, Everyone

(03:35) The Battle of the Bulge

(09:13) Support Anti-Aging Research

(09:37) Variably Effective Altruism

(09:51) Periodic Reminders (You Should Know This Already)

(12:05) FDA Delenda Est

(13:03) Other Enemies of Life

(14:04) Covid Postmortems

(14:55) Everything sounds like a sales pitch

(17:07) Information that would have been helpful was never provided

(17:49) A disconnect between what I experienced on the ground and the narrative I was hearing

(21:52) Covid-19 Origins

(24:29) Assisted Suicide Watch

(27:58) Talking Price

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First published:
April 9th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wfz47Ez2r4rQZuYBY/medical-roundup-2

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.