I suspect this video applied to you more than me. I gave up hospital work a couple of years ago, but this made me laugh because of some (hyperbolic) similarities. There are many improvements, and AI helps formulate notes, but paperwork is still a big part. I also don’t get paid in cafeteria vouchers, and I really have wonderful coworkers and bosses..
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Reminds me of when I was an assistant apartment manager and had dozens of keys; I decided one day that in heaven there will be no keys. It’s a happy thought.
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Definitely no keys. The use of locks reveals how the societies have changed. A century ago, in the sparsely populated rural areas of Finland, people often did not lock the doors when they left from their home. A broomstick that was put sideways before the door told that there was nobody home, so others knew to wait for the return of the owners if they wanted to meet them.
Still today, there is something left of the trusting attitude in some rural places. There are some small self-service farm stores where anybody can fetch a small amount of the products of the farm (like potatoes) and leave the payment in a box that is not guarded. No owners present and no video surveillance.
The same attitude is seen in the way how in the countryside, even the smallest children may walk to school without their parents. During the last decades, the limit has usually been 5km of walking to the school, if it is longer the children get the right to use school busses. Even that has changed lately but not because of human threats. Wolf populations have increased to the point where parents fear for their small children and therefore arrange cars for traveling through the locations with most intense wolf activity.
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We live in a relatively small town of 3500, and many homes sell vegetable produce and fruit “on your honor,” helping ourselves and leaving payment. Children sometimes walk to school, but generally not that far. I have read of the sharp increase of wolves in Finland recently. That would be frightening. They have somewhat similar concerns in the upper peninsula iin Michigan, but we have no known packs currently in the lower peninsula. Coyotes are present, and I have seen some large ones that would make me want to keep an eye on smaller children.
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Many patients and staff like to play with inflated gloves–one of the staff was very artistic in our office recently! I guess these are suggestions for when we have to wait in a doc’s office in the future!
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Wolves are not freightening as long as they fear humans. I have been less than 15m from a wolf during midnight and the wolf just escaped. Problems emerge when the fear disappears.
Those with ‘extreme’ attitudes towards hunting managed to halt practically all hunting of large carnivores for almost three years. They utilized effectively the laws in a way that halted hunting during the hunting periods, as solving the cases in the court took longer than the hunting periods lasted. There was a need to change the laws both at the level of EU and nationally before the hunting could start again.
During the period of no hunting, the populations of all large predators increased much. Some of the predators also seemed to loose their fear towards humans. Wolf individuals watching children walking to home from a distance of less than 50m, wolves eating prey and resting openly 100-200m from an elementary school during the school day and cases that forced the police to order the killing of a few wolves. Brown bears became more confident in moving in the backyards. There were even two cases where a lynx became a threat - these wanted to eat small dogs in the leash despite the owner being with the dog.
This winter a controlled hunting of wolves in the most problematic areas was allowed again, with 100 licences. Most of the 100 licences were used in a few days. Now the researchers follow what happens, so that the authorities learn what the impact of removing almost 100 wolves will be. Future hunting will be adjusted by the information they get.