- A lot of medical and nursing students are planning on doing something other than direct patient care.
- Study: Health care privatization is good for patients.
- Policies established by close referendums tend to stay in effect for many years thereafter. (HT: Tyler)
- Occupational licensing study: Official recognition of out‐of‐state licenses increases employment of licensed occupations without sacrificing service quality.
- A national medical student group called White Coats for Black Lives took the occasion of the murder of more than 1,000 Jews to provide a full-throated expression of solidarity with Palestine.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
More Medical Schools Adopt Climate Change Curriculum
What should your doctor have learned in medical school. What should medical schools teach? Physicians I’ve talked to have said medical school is brutal. The amount of knowledge that students need to learn is immense. According to a recent poll up to 25% of medical students are thinking about quitting. One of the biggest stressors is the sheer volume of material that students must master.
Wednesday Links
- Why Medicare’s negotiated prices may not help patients. Formularies, step therapy and more.
- Blood supply has steadily decreased for over a decade, reaching critically low levels in the past two years.
- Another study on site neutral payments: Medicare Part B spending would have been $7,750 less for a hypothetical breast cancer patient.
- Opinion: Bidenomics is driving up the cost of health care.
Tuesday Links
- “Many older people are one medical emergency away from a court-appointed guardian taking control of their lives.”
- The hypothalamus, a cone shaped part of the human brain no bigger than an almond, affects whether we feel hungry and helps control our metabolism. (NYT)
- Kansas and Virginia Medicaid programs paid MCOs for beneficiaries who were dead. (InsideHealthPolicy paywall)
- Solution to rural health care: telemedicine. But you need an internet connection.