So did you hear that Dr. Phil started an online medical service? I guess it makes sense: if the proles don’t deserve actual in-person education and have to content themselves with the online crap, why should they have access to real medical care?
The next big thing is online dentistry.
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Online medical services are not that new, actually. Our university’s new insurance plan now generously offers faculty “access” to one. You are also strongly encouraged to consult them should you be “away from home” (which means, outside the reach of the host HMO network), and should you need any medical assistance. Because of this “benefit”, our plans will now cover very little physical medical service anywhere outside the “network”.
(Of course I am commenting anonymously for this one.)
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Oh God. This sounds just so bad. God.
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Dr. Phil isn’t a medical doctor, so he can’t legally give ANY medical advice. 😦
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He organize dthe service but he isn’t the one “treating” people. There is a team of actual, practicing doctors who do it.
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I only met Dr Sam recently on the internet. However if someone invented online food and online houses, the problem of resource scarcity would be solved. For example the employee who worked online for an hour would earn let’s say an online sandwich drawn by a graphic artist. When the employee gets sick, she or he is just sent to Dr Sam’s office, who draws the right medicines with Adobe Illustrator. No more cheating with the sick days any more. And Dr Sam also won’t call you to tell you to lose weight like your doctor did, just erases some weight from the online body of the patient with a virtual eraser. The problem of wrinkles and other signs of the old age can be also quickly solved. Much easier for everyone. People just have to move to the virtual world which can be extended without limits so no more whining because of things like immigration or urbanization or homelessness.
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Have you read Rudy Rucker’s books of post-singularity fiction?
There’s a version of this that’s even more bleak than this — what if you can’t afford enough pixels to represent your ideal online utopia, and you’re condemned to live in some four-bit simulated neighbourhood with all of the other digital underclass?
Look at the bright side: if pixelated porn gets you off, you’ll have a blast in this dystopian future!
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Is this going to be one of those “medical services” that involves ways where Americans can get cheaper pills from Canada and India?
Let’s just call him Doctor Pill in advance. 🙂 [evil grin]
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