Americans have gotten used to seeing their doctors and other health care providers using telehealth video visits in the past four years. But a new study reveals that what a doctor has behind them during a telehealth visit can make a difference in how the patient feels about them and their care.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Monday Links
- Are physician scientists— people who mostly run labs and see patients 1/2 a day a week in a clinic and 2-4 weeks a year in the hospital — as good as full-time doctors? No
- Bob Graboyes interviews Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty: Why his Indian hospitals perform a heart bypass operation for $2,000 as opposed to the US hospital cost of at least $100,000 – with equally good outcomes.
- All the policy positions that Anthony Fauci got wrong.
- One NIH investigation estimated the costs of alcohol use amounted to 2.6% of US GDP.
- Scott Sumner always has the best views on the macro economy.
Saturday Links
- Fauci testimony: He engaged in misleading wordplay and evasive blame-shifting.
- The Trump tax cuts (2017 TCJA) were actually very progressive.
- There have been more than 3 million excess deaths across the US, Europe and Australia since 2020. Could Covid vaccines be a guilty party?
- Why the IRA bill is especially bad for future cancer patients.
- David Boaz, RIP
- Kaiser has produced health policy 101.
- As of April, 5.3% of U.S. adults — 13.7 million people — had long Covid.
Saturday Links
- Teens who use cannabis face 11 times the odds for a psychotic episode compared to teens who abstain from the drug, new Canadian research contends.
- The fertility rates in some countries (e.g., South Korea). Are below 1.0. That is less that one birth for every two adults.
- Why the unwinding of the (Covid-related) expansion of Medicaid didn’t cause an increase in uninsurance: Nearly half of the 5.9 million people who were projected to become uninsured … already thought they were uninsured.” in a 2022 survey.
- Homelessness is bad for your health.
- Whether worker pay has kept up with productivity depends on how you measure “worker pay” and how you measure “productivity.” Is this a joke?
- GPT4 passes the restaurant review Turing test. Observers can’t tell whether the reviewer was human or not.
- How CMS wants to regulate your access to drugs.