• raldone01@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Probably my minor OSS contributions. Some good memories in friends and family - I would like to think.

  • crimson_iris@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    10 hours ago

    Helped a sexual assault survivor regain some sense of control over her life by teaching her self protection skills. If nothing else positive comes out of my life, I’m okay if that’s it.

  • thethrilloftime69@feddit.onlineEnglish
    2·
    11 hours ago

    I’m a doctor. And I know people rightfully don’t trust us and I know that people are justifiably angry at the US healthcare system.

    But every time I’m with a patient, I sit down for as long as is necessary. I will run late if I have to because I know that I might be the only opportunity this person has to have someone listen to them( because God knows so many of my colleagues will not). I ask about their lives and I try to explain what I understand about their condition. I explain what the limits of modern medicine is and I try to point out where exactly the insurance company has chosen to insert themselves into the interaction. I never promise that I can fix everything but I try my hardest to listen to their concerns. I strongly believe in health education and I try to explain that medicine has limits about what it can find and what it can explain. Sometimes their problems fall into realm sometimes their problems do not fall into that realm. I know patients will sometimes lie to manipulate me, but I don’t hold that against the next patient.

    I volunteer at 2 free clinics because I strongly believe we need a universal healthcare system and I think it would make me a hypocrite if I didn’t at least try to donate some of my time.

    I’m not the best doctor but I know I’m motivated by a deep sense of responsibility to humanity.

      • thethrilloftime69@feddit.onlineEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        No. Each doctor/practice has their own policies about how many patients need to be seen in order to optimize revenue. Insurers have policies about what needs to be documented before they’ll agree to pay for certain tests or agree to pay for additional visits.

        We’re trained in residency to try to fit a whole visit into 15 mins. So a lot of systems will force you to see 4-8 patients in an hour. I’m lucky that I work for a small non profit hospital, so we don’t have any policies about how many patients need to be seen in order to optimize revenue, but a lot of my colleagues will be forced into seeing 40-60 patients in a day in order to maximize the number of billable visits.

        Basically MBAs forced all these decisions on us.

        • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          Im a bit jelly of your patients. One of my best doctors whas this deaf woman and Im like 99% sure its because she could say shove it I have a disablity and need to read lips so it takes as long as it takes.

          • thethrilloftime69@feddit.onlineEnglish
            1·
            9 hours ago

            Yeah I’m super lucky I don’t work for MBAs all my bosses are doctors and they don’t like to step on my toes. So I have a lot of leeway to do things like I see fit.

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    4·
    13 hours ago

    I’m always cracking jokes and like to make people laugh. So, that.
    Still net negative, tho

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    There are several times in my life where I have worked against my own interest. This would be for things people think of as morality but in my own thought patterns Im not sure if that exactly fits. I think it had a big impact on many folks involved. Mostly they are just surprised someone would actually do that and I think, or maybe its more hope, that it caused some introspection.

  • naught101@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 hours ago

    Climate activism. Helped get the issue of coal mining and export on the local, state, and federal agenda in Australia in the late 2000s, while living next to the world’s biggest coal export port. Still doing bits, but I think that was my most effective period (working with many others, obviously).

  • Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world
    7·
    18 hours ago

    Hopefully I’ll be able to pass my little farm to someone willing to keep my vision for it going. Idk if I’ll have kids but that would be a pretty good avenue if they want. If not maybe sell it to someone I trust when it becomes too much for me. Secondary to that, if I get to be a nuclear engineer in my state that would be pretty sick.

    • Krusty@quokk.auEnglish
      5·
      17 hours ago

      What a juxtaposition. A childless farmer yearning for nuclear ambitions.

    • livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net
      1·
      14 hours ago

      Don’t leave us hanging, tell us more about your vision for the place, if you don’t mind. Is it a work in progress? What’s next on your to do list for it?

      • Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world
        2·
        12 hours ago

        As it stands now, I donate/give away about 20-30% of what I produce, sell 30% and keep the rest. That’s why it’s something I do on the side, not my main income. Food stuff ends up at a pantry I like or with friends/family. Most of the wool goes to a lady from my church who makes stuff. I’d kind of like to learn more about doing the latter myself. Realistically though, I don’t really want to dedicate the time or bandwidth to it lol. I’d like to expand my current pickeling/canning setup and expand the space I use for vegetables. It’s a balance though. I want to keep it relatively small so because I don’t want to be a full time farmer. I’d like to get better at keeping bees and keep more, it’s hard to get them through winters. I could keep going on the little things I want to do for days. As well as the things I don’t because I know they’d get away from me. I definitely don’t want to end up putting my lady in a situation where she has to help out more just because I had an idea I couldn’t keep up with. But anyway, at it’s core, my vision for it is simple. Create high quality, clean food/products and always give away enough to make an impact. Apologies for the rambling I’ve been up for like 30 hours at this point.

  • sit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    17 hours ago

    (This feels in a way very private.) For now, I’ve talked to people in psychological emergencies, offline+online. They were strangers and I don’t know how they fared after we talked, but in these moments i was there, at least making them not feel alone with their struggles and (hopefully) at most setting a spark of hope that could be the beginning of change (when I explained what helped me / sharing my related stories) and taking responsibility in their own lives.

    I visited a neighbour who had a stroke and could barely move after, in a hospital. I went to them for over a month (almost) every day. I organised small things that were important to them in these times, even if they had no impact on their status. I talked to them, made them feel human, showing support for them and their progress. When saying goodbye for the day they broke out multiple times in tears for I was doing this, saying they loved me. (They had nobody else, I barely knew them before the stroke)

    [I quit smoking after >10 years, in the third or fourth week of visiting them because I whittnessed (?) the system “hospital” keeping humans barely alive and my neighbour reporting how they got treated by staff and the doctors - 100% dependence (eat, sleep, the table is too far away to reach water(intentionally?), toilet, turning in bed, hygiene, the tv doesn’t work, EVERYTHING) on staff that DGAF, because evolution gave humans a mechanism to cope with being exposed to so much suffering: dampening empathy, inhibiting emotional involvement, coldness on a professional level. (They have to have professional distance, yes.) I’m not blaming or judging, these were my reasons to quit smoking when I couldn’t stop before, on my own.]

    [If you want to stop doing a vice (smoking, alc?) or want to get a new perspective and you get a chance to go to a hospital to visit someone, do it. Expose yourself to the humane suffering which otherwise doesn’t really exist in your world. Seeing it makes a difference.]

    Helping my neighbour for their time in this hospital was an eye-opening experience for me. Time and health is all we have. I have been very wasteful with my time.

    If you are not where you want to be, changing something might be enough to break out of current patterns, even if the change is not better, setting yourself up for positive change when the opportunity arises. Neutral change might be a good first goal.

    I confronted people in public when they littered or showed aggression towards weaker people.

    A lot of this is associated with “civil courage”, I feel.