Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Wednesday Links
- What made the snow storm so deadly for Buffalo?
- How NEPA is strangling the economy.
- Stanford, which has more employees than students, is telling its faculty and students what words to use.
- Can health care be reformed the way Steve Jobs ran Apple?
- Colorado is the fourth state seeking to import drugs from Canada.
- North London man waits 7 hours for an ambulance after breaking his hip. (NYT)
- British woman with agonizing back pain and numbness in both of her legs gets to the hospital 12 hours after calling an ambulance. It was another 2 hours wait before she could enter. (NYT)
Simple Cancer Blood Test Turns Out to Be Anything but Simple
A simple blood test that looks for samples of DNA floating in the bloodstream of pregnant women is used to screen for numerous birth defects. It can also be used to screen for cancer.
CA Lawsuit Seeks to Enforce Ban on Corporate Practice of Medicine
Private equity investors have been buying up thousands of health care businesses across the country. This includes everything from dermatology practices, to gastroenterology, to air ambulance services. If you seek care at an emergency room, there is a good chance that you will be treated by a physician employed by a staffing firm backed by private equity. Physicians…