If MRSA Is Airborne, then CDC Guidance on “Enhanced Barrier Precautions” in Nursing Homes Is Wrong (and Lethal)
More massive resistance to airborne transmission from CDC and the Infection Control community.
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KLG: Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines – A Review-Essay
Unless we figure out a way to spend our wealth on what gives life instead of what takes life, the oncoming crisis that has been called the “Jackpot” here will most certainly be a crisis without a solution.
Read more...How the Mayo Clinic and Uber Killed Efforts to Help Workers in Minnesota
The Land of 10,000 Lakes has been widely celebrated for its supposedly worker-friendly legislation this year, but liberal Democrats headed for the exits when push came to shove.
Read more...Medi-Cal’s Fragmented System Can Make Moving a Nightmare
“To me, that’s how insurance works: One insurance ends, the other begins.” LOL no.
Read more...As Nonprofit Hospitals Reap Big Tax Breaks, States Scrutinize Their Required Charity Spending
A state court, citing “eye-popping” executive compensation, strikes down a hospital’s property tax break and strikes fear into the nonprofit hospital industry across the US.
Read more...Industrialism Is Bad for Our Health: The Series Continues
New studies shed more unflattering light on the impact of modern diets on health.
Read more...The Candidacy and Claims of RFK Jr.
Economist Rajiv Sethi has a look at RFK, Jr.’s election prospects and thinks mainstream experts are underestimating him.
Read more...The Invisible Effect Medical Notes Have on Care
Doctors sometimes describe their patients negatively. How does that affect their care down the line?
Read more...“Will the Doctor See You?” More on the Crapification of US Medical Care
Medical care is being systematicaly degraded in the US. And we have AI coming to cut more humans out.
Read more...‘We’re Not Doing That’: Why a Black Couple Wouldn’t Crowdfund to Pay Off Medical Debts
Why black patients burdened by medical debt are reluctant to solicit for funds.
Read more...Deadly Fungus Infections Rising Even as Doctors Keep Missing Them
Why you need to push your doctor hard to include fungus infection as a possible diagnosis for mystery ailments.
Read more...ER Doctor: “Private Equity in Medicine is Dangerous to Patients”
Dr. Ming Lin, fired by a private equity company for objecting to poor Covid practices, argues that doctors need to be in charge of patient care
Read more...Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health
A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?
Read more...A Majority Of Americans Are Against Banning Gas Stoves
Even Americans who don’t have gas stoves oppose a ban.
Read more...Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds
The US is is abandoning treatable patients, first by not providing reasonably priced insulin, now by ignoring cancer drug shortages.
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