- AI is beating human doctors in medical tests.
- Caffeine at 5 pm; sleep by 10 pm.
- Immigration is a problem all over the world.
- Yglesias: good comparison of Medicare in Canada vs. Medicare in Australia.
- Burritos actually haven’t gotten more expensive.
- Surveys: men are not lonelier than women. (Slate)
- Why obtaining more health data on otherwise healthy people can be harmful. (NYT)
- “Moving from the highest tax stats – California and New York – with income tax rates as high as 14% – to a no-income tax state like Florida, Tennessee or Texas, a family with $5 million or more in income can increase annual take-home pay by 30%.”
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Friday Links – 14 August 2026
- The case for data centers.
- A woman freezing her eggs (as AOC plans to do) can expect to spend $10,000 or more.
- “The fraction of women who undergo this procedure who go on to bear a child with the frozen eggs is around 2%.” HT Tyler
- Hooper: Where the left goes wrong.
- Where the left goes wrong, Part II
- Where the left goes wrong, Part III
Patients Using AI for Second Opinions, but They Still Want Doctors
The Internet has done more to increase the average person’s medical knowledge than anything else I can imagine. Health information is popular. There are more than 1 billion medical searches per day on Google. Before the Internet most patients got medical information directly from their doctors or perhaps turned to medical encyclopedias if they wanted to know more. A few minutes spent on the Internet can convey more information about your condition than your doctor would ever have time to teach you.
Thursday Links – 13 August 2026
- Medicare Advantage enrollees get an average of $2,660 per member this year for benefits not available from traditional Medicare, such as dental, vision and hearing coverage, as well as transportation, groceries, bathroom grab bars and caregiver support.
- The Flu kills 300,000 people worldwide each year.
- Doctors upset over AI: one third of adults turn to chatbots for health advice – increasingly uploading their medical tests.
- Does birth order affect your health?