Now the hospital case worker wants to discharge an almost 80-yr-old who is in sepsis, has afib, and is still super dehydrated. I hate this fucking timeline.

I hate this country’s healthcare system.

The Attending might talk to you by late afternoon, if you’re lucky. The nurse won’t answer questions, even when they know the answers, because they’re not authorized. There are three dozen people who might come in and out every 15 minutes for 76 seconds at a time. There’s minimal personal care.
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The food is bland & dry, at best. Drinking while lying down and weak is difficult at best. Sleeping with a bunch of tubes and cables coming out of your arms and nose and other places is uncomfortable at best.
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It’s ~impossible to recover when you can’t sleep and you can’t or don’t feel like you can eat or drink and there’s very little done by hospitals to facilitate or encourage replacing lost fluids and nutrients. And no, IV bags of saline aren't sufficient.
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Welcome to the “dry heat."

I think they care about money, but not about performing their contracted duties. They’ve routinely ignored regulations and gotten away with it, so I don’t think the power of regulations has had much impact on them.

I don’t understand the question.

So many. I’m thinking maybe we need a Maximum Overdrive / Trucks like event (probably spurred by AI rather than a comet) to finally push people into doing away with motorized travel for good.

Asked recently what I think would most improve food and housing accessibility in my city, I responded that we should dig up all of the parking lots and turn them into gardens and small grocery stores.

I work on housing in my community and one of the things we’ve been working to reform is the idiotic requirement of so many parking spaces per unit of housing. It’s inane.

I’ve seen some fantastic ideas out there on how to get rid of them, but I’m so defeated right now about progress… :(

In the future, I may not even use any abstracts hosted by them as “citations” in any work I do in the future. Nothing they have hosted is trustworthy anymore.

But I and probably others, have run out of steam, and we thought, stupidly, that they wouldn’t do a full data sweep. I’m not surprised. I mean, I am, but this behavior tracks.

I (along with several other people) have been trying to do both. I have a large set of data for specific meeting that we knew were in trouble, but I didn’t think we needed to back up everything they’ve ever published. Apparently we do.

Yeah. I’m so done with them.

What's to stop them from changing the authorship on abstracts they wish they had written?

Whomever made this decision is a coward and should be shunned by the entire community.