Dr Chris

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Dr Chris

Dr Chris

@csikes221

ER Doc, retired paramedic, California transplant, #girldad, husband and Boston sports fan

Thousand Oaks, CA Katılım Şubat 2014
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Dr Chris
Dr Chris@csikes221·
@JeffBezos Top earners find way to not pay taxes. Big business not paying taxes. Gonna exempt the lower 50% now. I don’t like taxes anymore than the next guy but someone has to pay them. We need the broadest possible tax base. Even token attempt to balance the budget needs wide increases.
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Dr Chris
Dr Chris@csikes221·
@_TyAnderson Strikes me as a position that you can save some money on. Possibly. By the time a forward group grows and progresses to cup winning level you’re paying top dollar for at least some of the talent. Defense as well. Just not possible to draft and develop a full d of schaefers fast
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Dr Chris
Dr Chris@csikes221·
@NHLCoachesAssoc Contractually yes this is how it works. Fired coach gets paid on his contract until it expires or he is hired by someone else who then pays. The idea of firing and not letting him get the other job is the unprecedented part. Odd too wouldn’t ownership want to free up the $$$.
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Dr Chris@csikes221·
@Mchewyqq @BruinsWyan2 I don’t argue the merits of the tax situation. But those teams can’t sign everyone. They only can recruit so many. If Boston and Vegas both go for eichel simultaneously it factors but again they can’t get everyone. And Vegas still needs to do a good job picking players.
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Mchewy@Mchewyqq·
@csikes221 @BruinsWyan2 It would be great to have a player like eichel back in Boston but he’d lose millions to play here. Same with other top free agents.
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Dr Chris@csikes221·
@Mchewyqq @BruinsWyan2 No doubt. But you still need to pick the right targets and bring it all together. That’s the really hard part. Vegas isn’t good because of the tax situation they have good management. The tax part just makes the sales pitch easier.
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Mchewy@Mchewyqq·
@csikes221 @BruinsWyan2 A lot easier to attract the right players when they can make more money there for the same contract elsewhere
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Dr Chris@csikes221·
@Mchewyqq @BruinsWyan2 Tax status probably helps as a recruitment tool but their front office still picked the players and coaches got them all on the same page and won.
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Mchewy@Mchewyqq·
@BruinsWyan2 No state income tax compared to MA millionaire tax. Make millions more playing in Vegas. I’ll start there
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Dr Chris
Dr Chris@csikes221·
@Appyg99 You want the best surgeon to perform the surgery. Mcat is far removed and irrelevant.
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Apoorva Govind
Apoorva Govind@Appyg99·
Assume you live in a world where everyone is of blue race. Your 3yr old is very sick. Doctor A scored 80th percentile MCAT, comes from a poor background. Doc B is in the 99th percentile, comes from wealth. Who would you choose to perform lifesaving surgery on your child?
Dr Terry Simpson@drterrysimpson

I understand why many Asian families feel frustrated in elite admissions systems. In intensely competitive environments, there is a real perception — and sometimes evidence — that exceptional academic performance still does not guarantee admission. That feeling should not be dismissed. But admissions committees also confront another reality: if you have 100 applicants from privileged, high-performing educational pipelines with nearly identical scores, resumes, research access, tutoring, and opportunities, it is not irrational to also value the applicant who achieved similar academic success despite poverty, instability, underfunded schools, family hardship, or lack of institutional advantages. That is not abandoning merit. It is recognizing that achievement exists in context. And medicine especially is not merely selecting expert test takers. It is selecting future physicians who will care for human beings across every class, culture, language, and circumstance in society. The irony is that many people who defend “objective merit” often become deeply uncomfortable the moment merit is evaluated in anything broader than a percentile ranking.

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Anthony G@TalkTonysTakes·
@gniknayrb One cup somehow absolves 20 years of failure?
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Dr Chris
Dr Chris@csikes221·
@thejaewilliams Those numbers are used in that manner though. 4.0 GPA and high mcat … boom doctor. 3.5 and fair mcat. Nope. I am sorry life experience and other attributes are not getting you in. Scores seem to trump all. Not sure how to do it differently w 10k apps. Should be a better way.
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Jae Williams@thejaewilliams·
The Yale medical school discourse is interesting because MCAT & GPA are only part of a med school application. Raw numbers don’t show who will be a better physician. We see this in sports all the time, a QB having more passing yards doesn’t mean they’re the better quarterback.
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Dr Chris
Dr Chris@csikes221·
@drterrysimpson @fuqekgs There has to be a minimum standard to meet to be successful in med school pass boards and certification exams etc. problem is the exams such as mcat are used as a metric for success. Like the higher score means you are gonna be a better doctor. That doesn’t hold up.
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Dr Terry Simpson
Dr Terry Simpson@drterrysimpson·
I once met a student who raised his MCAT score from a 25 to a 30 after taking a commercial test prep course. Did the prep course make him a better future physician? Did it improve his empathy, judgment, communication, professionalism, surgical skill, diagnostic reasoning under uncertainty, or ability to care for frightened patients at 2 AM? Or did it mostly make him better at taking the MCAT? That is the central problem with treating standardized testing as if it were synonymous with clinical excellence.
John U Choi DDS, PhD@jcperio1

@drterrysimpson It is for the same reason why we take SAT, GRE, DAT, GMAT and LSAT--those tests are a method to normalize GPA's from elite schools to average ones, from grade inflation or deflation. In Korea, Japan and China, the test score is the most important metric in admission decisions.

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Olga Nesterova@onestpress·
A $100 billion AI data center in northwest Utah just got county approval despite nearly 4,000 complaints. It would span 40,000 acres and require 9 gigawatts of power — more than the entire state currently uses.
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DanielFireCopter@DanielFireTruck·
@HappyWestover @OC_Scanner Yea I’d guess the weather wasn’t in favor when you shot the flare resulting it landing in the brush, but yea he’s lucky to have been rescued and found.
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Dr Chris@csikes221·
@Nyanasaur Proves you need to hit at least a little bit to win .. score a few runs
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Nyanasaur@Nyanasaur·
The Red Sox have a 1.83 ERA in their last 6 games... They are 2-4
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Dr Chris@csikes221·
@BOSSportsGordo Good you have your IL reason … make it happen and let him figure out NOT on the big league roster
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Gordo@BOSSportsGordo·
Not sure I knew Trevor Story has been dealing with a groin issue. Chad Tracy said monitoring it contributed to giving him the day off: “We got in at 3:30 in the morning and we are always monitoring Trev with the groin and making sure he’s good. We felt like today was an appropriate day to give him off.” (via @ChrisCotillo)
Gordo tweet media
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Dr Chris
Dr Chris@csikes221·
@EdHand89 I have seen little league teams with better offense than these guys. Can’t get a timely hit. Bunt draw a walk maybe steal and induce an error… something anything different but no
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Ed Hand
Ed Hand@EdHand89·
This is the worst Red Sox offense of my lifetime and I'm not sure it is close.
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01833@Petefrom01833·
@Savageboston He has been historically slow starting the season at the plate. Do the Sox want 50m in dead money by dfaing him? Henry hates dead money. I don’t see this happening. Trade with eating some of his contract or taking back someone else’s bad deal may be more likely.
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Dr Chris@csikes221·
@JonathanBaumst4 Tells you a lot about the lineup construction… theoretical spare part is heart of the order
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Jon Baumstark (NYSoxFan)
Jon Baumstark (NYSoxFan)@JonathanBaumst4·
I like Mickey Gasper. I really do - and I’m rooting for him to succeed as much as anyone else. But this idea of Mickey Gasper as the regular #2 hitter on Major League Baseball team is fucking lunacy. Let’s not forget - he’s only on the roster because someone got hurt. If he’s a #2 caliber MLB hitter . . . why the fuck was he in the minors to begin with? PS - that was a rhetorical question
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Dr Chris@csikes221·
@Bastards_Boston Haven’t been great sure. Last years team won 89 games and was much better than this year’s abomination. Which oddly has better pitching.
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FIRE BRESLOW PODCAST@Bastards_Boston·
HOT TAKE Red Sox have sucked since 2019. 2026 isn’t new. Red Sox fans were always in denial. 2021 ALCS team was simply a fluke with no pitching. 2025 was an anomaly. 2026 is simply a result of fatigue from being frauds. Don’t get mad at us. Be mad because you fell for it.
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