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Sarah Constantin
@s_r_constantin
The more you learn the more radicalized you’ll get. It’s complicated because a lot of important and heroic stuff gets done in hospitals. But there’s fractally perverse insanity too.
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Sarah Constantin
@s_r_constantin
Frankly, if you keep going down the coaching/self-development path, there’s probably a role for “getting people with healthcare-relevant skills to be sane enough to even feel ready to approach changing the system.”
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Sarah Constantin
@s_r_constantin
Like, the last time I thought I had an opportunity for an “activism/reform/direct-action” thing in this space, I basically blew it due to not having the nerve to pitch my ideas to enough docs & disaster-relief experts.
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Sarah Constantin
@s_r_constantin
There’s a shortage of actually-viable ideas, yes, but there’s not a shortage of plausible ideas. The way you get actually-viable ideas is by stress-testing them against reality a little.
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Sarah Constantin
@s_r_constantin
So the real bottleneck is taking plausible-sounding radical ideas (for fixing medicine) and pushing them past the first expert who thinks they’re disreputable, without going totally off the deep end into wishful-thinking crank land.
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Sarah Constantin
@s_r_constantin
I would totally pay a coach to push me/support me through talking to experts to stress-test radical ideas and *not quit* the first time someone Respectable gives me a dirty look
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