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Rothermich's point is that health care isn't a commodity, and to treat it as such always worsens care. It dooms patients to choosing between different kinds of horrors, and subjects health care worker to the moral injury of failing their duty to their patients in order to serve them as customers.

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We literally just said, "Aw, c'mon, please?" and it gave us the private info. A couple texts later, we had it sorted out.

This is a very funny outcome: the support chatbot sucked, but in a way that turned out to be advantageous to us. It did that thing that outsource call centers were invented to prevent: it actually *helped us*.

But this one is clearly an outlier. It was a broken bot. I'm sure future iterations will be much more careful not to help...if they can help it.

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This is a book bursting with monsters - the final novella, "The Secret Diary of Mina Harker," is a beautiful vampire tale that remixes Dracula to great effect - food, humor, subtle emotions and beautiful premises. It's got Oz, and Burroughs' Barsoom, and King Arthur, and so much else besides.

This was my introduction to Goss's work - I'd heard great things, but the TBR pile is always 50 times bigger than I can possibly tackle. I'm off to read a *lot* more of it.

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A business that can only secure its sustained operations by shifting risk to its workers is a corporation that only exists because the workers who produce its profits assume the risks for its managers' blunders.

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