Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Coworking Clinics Tailored to Physicians are the Next Big Thing (I hope)
Coworking spaces go back decades even if the name was changed to give the idea an aura of originality. One thing that is new is the concept is now being tailored for physicians. This is where an old idea gets interesting. Increasingly, physicians are opting to work for hospitals, large practices they don’t have a stake in and other employers whose interests may not align with their patients’. The reason many physicians are becoming employees rather than self-employed is because the financial cost of setting up an office is prohibitive, not to mention the headache of managing a small clinic.
Friday Links
- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: “The best place to hide and launder ill-gotten gains is actually the United States.”
- The rise and fall of cities: Detroit has one of the highest homicide rates in the United States, experienced a 61% population decrease from 1950-2010, and between 2005-2015, one in three Detroit properties has been foreclosed on.
- The left digit bias in medicine. Recommended
- Tyler Cowen on the cost of climate change: Imagine someone telling you, “the world won’t attain the year 2100 standard of living until 2102.”
- Overboard incidents — falling, jumping or being thrown — are the leading cause of death on cruise ships.
- Fauci’s replacement, Jeanne Marrazzo, “has almost an unblemished record of being wrong on every issue related to COVID.”
Thursday Links
- Right-of-center opponents of dropping the A bomb on Japan include Herbert Hoover and Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
- After Portland decriminalized small amounts of illicit drugs, it got …. more drug use! (NYT)
- The judge, on the Biden administration’s censorship of Covid info: It was “arguably the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” (WSJ)
- What Trump did on price transparency and why it matters.
- From Australia to Zimbabwe, governments are raiding each other’s health systems in a worldwide hunt for medical workers. (WSJ)