Physician Gender Pay Gap in the News

Female doctor complains about gender pay gap.

Another female doctor blames the higher female doctor attrition to the gender pay gap.

The doctor gender pay gap problem is the same issue as in other industries. Women in general have less competitive drive as men. There are a few women who have same competitive drives as men, but they're in minority. They and seniority accounts for all of the pay gap.

In the military, everybody gets the same pay for the same ranks. Yet women still have attrition problems, and also promoted less than men, despite all the incentives and distortions. Pay transparency and equity will not solve this problem.

Physician man-hours will crash in America. Nothing will fix that problem other than immigration. Although, the rate of Covid-19 mortality keeps going in America, that patient demand problem will magically disappear. Voila.

Children self-segregation appears linked to racism

10 years old appears to be when children learns racism might be fixed, also when they start segregating and limiting their cross-racial interactions.

Interesting.

You will find salvation through manual labor

Robert McNamara (SecDef of Cuban missile and Vietnam, F-111), his son became a farmer in California. His struggles as farmer and legacy of Vietnam.

This is a reminder that human beings almost always find fulfillment in manual labor. This is why urban alienation disproportionately afflict the "knowledge workers", and why manual labor is a therapy for depression. This is also why Buddhism, the religion for PTSD, and Christian monkhood, heavily emphasize manual labor.

USA Imootence on TB-2

The USA cannot control Turkey's TB-2 exports.

The (clearly) political and bureaucratic impotence of the USA against the Turkish TB-2 export program, plainly demonstrates that the USA national security system is too ossified to be effective. Even the currently in vogue Ukraine aid program is constrained by a variety of considerations.

South Africa and Lesson in Reform

South Africa assessment 1 year after riots by the pro-Zuma faction after his corruption conviction. People believe that Ramphosa cannot reform the former liberation party ANC. The rolling black outs ("load shedding") is a visible and persistent reminder of South Africa's structural problems.

This is a lesson that Reform doesn't work at solving the problem. If the organization had the capacity to fix itself, it would have done so right away. The fact that people have to talk about "reform", means it can't fix itself. This is why organizations often stand up new sub-organizations to deal with new problems. Or the conflict is severe enough to get rid of much of the Old Guard, permitting the Organization to essentially rebirth itself during a war.

This article is also another reminder that a Democracy is always ready to shed its democratic consensus, to solve disputes by the force of arms. Any moment people take to the streets, Democracy has failed, and conflict starts.

And South Africa will soon reach Mexico-level of low-grade failed state.

Potential Demonic Activity

A 31-year-old man lured his 76-year-old female neighbor onto her porch (in St Louis suburbs), and killed her on the porch with a baseball bat and a knife. He was living alone, and reportedly had mental health issues. There was no apparent trigger. He played loud music and sometimes screamed inside his house, after his parents moved out last month.

This particular incident seems demonic. Some apparent psychosis and schizophrenia may have a supernatural basis. Chronic use of psychotropic medication or addictive substances may make the user susceptible to demonic influences.

More broadly, the social agitations the past few years, to include the recent spate of public shootings and other violence across the world, may indicate rising demonic activities. To what end, we don't know. But we all need to be more careful.