- Cops practicing medicine: Government and law enforcement increasingly surveil and influence the way doctors treat pain, psychoactive substance use, and substance use disorder.
- Its time to free the birth control pill: Allow OTC sales.
- Free the nurses: They can provide excellent primary care services.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Friday Links
- How the FDA is causing more RSV in deaths in children: “Smart Socks had been on the market for five years, boasted a 90 percent accuracy rating according to peer-reviewed research, and helped over 600,000 parents care for their children….”
- Sam Bankman-Fried’s unholy involvement in the Covid wars.
- Do we need hate crime legislation to protect Anthony Fauci and others from Sen. Rand Paul and other critics?
- The number of requests for abortion pills doubled each month, following the fall of Roe. (NYT)
- 1 in 8 deaths among nonelderly adults due to excessive alcohol use.
- More on the difficulty of CDC reform.
Do We Really Need Primary Care Physicians? What Do They Do?
Americans are constantly being told they need a primary care physician. Supposedly the key to good health is having a close relationship with your family doctor. According to a research paper from Stanford and Harvard medical schools we live longer in areas with high concentrations of primary care physicians:
Internships Boost Health Care Workers in Rural CO
I grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere. My parents house was 19 miles East of the Colorado border. The adjacent Colorado counties were so sparsely populated that the ranches were open range. There were no fences. The local hospital where I got my tonsils removed only had 9 beds. The hospital is county-owned, as is the long-term care facility. Some of the local health care providers are subsidized by the county, with free office space and guaranteed incomes. Otherwise, the only health care providers would be miles away in other counties.