Health Insurance Russian Roulette
Half of the [United States] insured population uses virtually no health care at all. The 80th percentile uses only $3,000 [the 95th percentile has] only $11,487 in costs. It’s the 99th percentile, the people...
Half of the [United States] insured population uses virtually no health care at all. The 80th percentile uses only $3,000 [the 95th percentile has] only $11,487 in costs. It’s the 99th percentile, the people...
In the early summer of 1956, an epidemic of poliomyelitis broke out in the city of Cork. It was not unexpected. The Irish medical authorities had noted the two-year gap between previous outbreaks, and...
I started my rotation today doing an elective in UCSD’s Poison Control unit (“Toxicology”), which the Governator planned to eliminate to avoid increasing the car registration fees he slashed as part of his quid...
El Paso County, eight hundred miles up the border, has essentially the same demographics … Yet in 2006 Medicare expenditures … in El Paso were $7,504 per enrollee—half as much as in McAllen …...
The AMA may be regressive when it comes to health care reform, but it does sometimes display an impressive ability to change. Or maybe not. At its annual meeting, the AMA voted to recommend...
Buried on Page 31 of the [US Senate Finance Committee’s policy reform document] was a proposal to “Modify the Requirements for Tax-Exempt Hospitals,” which would require nonprofit hospitals to maintain minimal levels of charitable...
Kids Go Wild For Ayers Cherry Morphine Soothers!
Updates have been completely absent for an age now. I was distracted by a pressing need to pass the final year of “book learning” in medical school, and right around the end of November...
In the UK, new NHS mandates prohibit doctors in hospitals from wearing ties, or long sleeves, out of concerns that such “professional” attire could carry germs. I did not carry any poison, or other...
Use of paracetamol for fever in the first year of life was associated with an increased risk of asthma symptoms when aged 6–7 years (OR 1·46 [95% CI 1·36–1·56]). Current use of paracetamol was...