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Category: Doctors & Hospitals

Thursday Links

Posted on August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 by John C. Goodman

JAMA study: Air pollution associated with dementia. The study is behind a paywall, but if this is a typical medical study, no one asked if the parents or grandparents had dementia.

State CON regulations are hurting patients.

Where the highest-paid doctors live: South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, and Wyoming.

Tyler Cowen has an explanation for this: Rural America has about 20 percent of the U.S. population but about 10 percent of its doctors.

Bird flu in Finland has pandemic potential.

Different doses of prescription drugs for men and women? Believe it or not, some people want to debate that.

Medicare negotiation is likely to lower the future price of only 4 of the 10 most likely targeted drugs.

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Wednesday Links

Posted on August 16, 2023August 15, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Jeff Goldsmith does an about face: vertical integration in health care doesn’t work.
  • Study: Which matters more for ER spending – price increases or upcoding? Next study should examine the IQ of the insurers who pay the ER fees.
  • 99% of hospitals pharmacists report drug shortages, causing 85% to ration treatments and 84% to rely on different dosages. (STAT)
  • Another cost of covid lockdowns: fewer stage 1 cancers were diagnosed and treated – leading to more stage 4 cancers and deaths. (WSJ)
  • The next president of Argentina may be a libertarian.
  • School Choice in Los Angeles: It works.
  • Scott Sumner has the best explanation I have seen on why inflation is a monetary phenomenon – something Keynesians have been slow to accept.
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Monday Links

Posted on August 14, 2023August 14, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • FDA backtracking: It’s OK for doctors to prescribe Ivermectin.
  • NIH scientists (including Fauci) got millions in royalty payments.
  • I bet you don’t know what a “standard medical deduction” is. (It helps you get food stamps.)
  • The average wait to see a physician is 3½ weeks. At Lagone Health center in New York City, you can have a virtual visit whenever you need it.
  • Patient dying of cancer says the FDA is keeping him from treatments that might save his life.
  • Why are young liberals getting more depressed?
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What Covid Public Policies Got Right

Posted on August 11, 2023 by John C. Goodman

COVID forced all states, including Connecticut, to grant far greater leeway to patients and providers in managing care. Physicians could practice across state lines, restrictions on telehealth were dropped, nurse practitioners and other nonphysician providers were granted greater power to treat patients, and hospitals no longer had to beg the permission of states to offer…

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