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  1. Jul 2025
    1. For when thy labour doon al ys, For when your labour’s all doneAnd hast mad alle thy rekenynges, And you’ve made all the accountsIn stede of reste and newe thynges Instead of rest and other thingsThou goost hom to thy hous anoon, You go straight homeAnd, also domb as any stoon, And as dumb as any stoneThou sittest at another book Sit at another bookTyl fully daswed ys thy look. Till your eyes are fully dazed

      In The House of Flame, Chaucer complains of "looking at screens all day" as if he were an office worker in 2025.

      "Making all the accounts" here is akin to staring at an accounting spreadsheet all day.

  2. Nov 2018
    1. Two major complaints emerged early on, Dr. Gorman says. Number one was the notion that hospitalists were enablers, allowing PCPs to shirk their long-established duty of shepherding their patients’ care through the walls of their local hospital. Number two, ironically, was the opposite: PCPs who didn’t want to cede control of their patients also moonlit taking ED calls that could generate patients for their own practice.
  3. Apr 2017