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Add modern insecurity and belief in a world of dog eat dog. You become a perfect fodder for crooks' designs. Common sense (heuristics) used by illiterate but worldly wise person is likely to be absent in the educated.
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Daniel Kahneman+Amos Tversky and Abhijit Bannerjee+Esther Duflo earned their Nobel Prize in economics due to their work on financial decision making. I dont know if medical decision making will get attention of good people of Swedish academy.
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Back to our problem of early childhood education. Now you will realize why people are willing to pay six figure sums (in ₹) to "coding for toddlers" companies.
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People running these companies KNOW and possibly accept in private conversations that it is all about making money. But anxious parents with huge amount of information and lack of decision making skills get carried away.
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A real life story to end this tread. As a trainee doctor, I treated a patient with bipolar disorder. Like clockwork, he would get an episode of mania every 12-14 months for years. He lived 300km away in a village. Arrived with his father at first sign of mania.
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(This sign was him sitting in village temple and singing devotional songs without break.) His father insisted on starting electro convulsive therapy on day one (they reached hospital with "nil by mouth" preparation) . He would be okay in about 10-12 days.
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My pleas to take lithium regularly to avoid these episodes would fall on deaf ears. His father would give back stock of lithium given to them at discharge. And they would leave only to arrive "nil by mouth" after 14 months.
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I cursed their illiteracy, short sightedness and demands for Electro convulsive therapy. I never tried to understand their decision making. Now I am much older and I appreciate their wisdom in the path they chose.
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Now I realize that our education can be a significant handicap. If I had made effort then, may be i would be on my way to Sweden :) This is how Nobel prizes are lost :) Have a nice Sunday. End of thread.
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As preparation for any procedure that requires anesthesia , doctors order "nil by mouth" for at least 6 hours. That means no food or drink allowed for that period. One important reason for this is to prevent vomiting under anesthesia leading to further complications.
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