NickLaing
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I'm a doctor working towards the dream that every human will have access to high quality healthcare. I'm a medic and director of OneDay Health, which has launched 53 simple but comprehensive nurse-led health centers in remote rural Ugandan Villages. A huge thanks to the EA Cambridge student community in 2018 for helping me realise that I could do more good by focusing on providing healthcare in remote places.
How I can help others
Understanding the NGO industrial complex, and how aid really works (or doesn't) in Northern Uganda
Global health knowledge
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Thanks @mal_graham🔸 this is super helpful and makes more sense now. I think it would make your argument far more complete if you put something like your third and fourth paragraphs here in your main article.
And no I'm personally not worried about interventions being ecologically inert.
As a side note its interesting that you aren't putting much effort into making interventions happen yet - my loose advice would be to get started trying some things. I get that you're trying to build a field, but to have real-world proof of this tractability it might be better to try something sooner rather than later? Otherwise it will remain theory. I'm not too fussed about arguing whether an intervention will be difficult or not - in general I think we are likely to underestimate how difficult an intervention might be.
Show me a couple of relatively easy wins (even small-ish ones) an I'll be right on board :).
I suspect depression is hugely underreported in low income countries where life satisfaction is lower. I don't know how on earth they surveyed for depression, then there's not even a concept really of "depression" in many low income settings, like Uganda here. Mental illness is only understood in the context of those with severe psychosis and mania. Only recently have organisations like Strong Minds raised the profile a little bit, but its suuuuuper early days,
Yeah as long as AI radiography interpretation isn't covered by insurance, forget about it.
In general I think people massively underrate professional gate keeping in slowing down AI automation and economic takeover in general. Doctors have gatekept for ages, they will only double down here. Like in many situations, you will basically need the full consent of the people who's jobs will be taken, for those jobs to be taken.... Good luck with that.
We've seen the first phase with Hollywood, drivers and Radiology but I think even bigger resistance will come. Why would you not fight tooth and nail agains AI when its your own livelihood at stake?
Thanks for the update, and the reasons for the name change make s lot of sense
Instinctively i don't love the new name. The word "coefficient" sounds mathsy/nerdy/complicated, while most people don't know what the word coefficient actually means. The reasoning behind the name does resonate through and i can understand the appeal.
But my instincts are probably wrong though if you've been working with an agency and the team likes it too.
All the best for the future Coefficient Giving!