- Tyler Cowen on the three university presidents testifying before Congress: “Overall this was a dark day for American higher education.”
- Biden Plans to Revoke Drug Patents to Lower Prices.
- How doctors get paid.
- Study: Children with liberal parents are more likely to suffer mental health problems.
- How does having too much to drink or eating a large meal prior to bed affect your sleep? A sleep tracker can tell you.
- A new way of harvesting organs – doctors take them before the donor is brain dead.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Wednesday Links
- Against FDA regulation of lab tests.
- More than $185 million of Covid relief money has been approved for projects related to golf courses. The Biden Treasury Department wants to let states spend $90 billion more of “leftover emergency money.”
- In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, per capita mortality varied by more than a hundredfold across countries, despite most implementing similar nonpharmaceutical interventions.
- Shouldn’t hospitals know if their patients are dead? “About 19 percent of deceased patients overall were deemed alive in their records. What’s more, dead patients received more than 200 telephone calls and 300 portal messages after their death.”
Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals Focused More on Dollars Than Patients?
Nonprofit hospitals … are supposed to serve the public good in exchange for being exempt from federal, state and local taxes — exemptions that added up to $28 billion in 2020.
[Yet] detailed media reports show them hounding poor patients for money, cutting nurse staffing too aggressively and giving preferential treatment to the rich over the poor….
The Future of Primary Care: AI Doctor in a Phone Booth
Artificial intelligence applications have been in the news lately. I’m especially interested in medical applications. I’ve previously written about using AI to help radiologists interpret X-rays and diagnostic images. Computer-aided radiology interpretation has been around for a few years and has gotten to the point where AI can catch things that radiologists miss. The New York Times worries about whether AI is ready to manage patient care. The consensus seems to be that although it may be premature at the moment it soon will be.