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Category: Doctors & Hospitals

Should Employers Be Allowed to Use Genetics to Screen Bad Employees?

Posted on June 2, 2026 by Devon Herrick

Recent technology makes it easier to assess genetic risks earlier, which could make some people unemployable. The following is from the New York Times:

While the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, or GINA, protects workers from being fired over their genetic test results, and the Americans With Disabilities Act protects those with active disabilities, neither law compels an employer to provide accommodations to help mitigate a person’s future health risk.

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Thursday Links – 21 May 2026

Posted on May 21, 2026May 20, 2026 by John C. Goodman
  • Driverless cars could save 30,000 lives a year.
  • Where the right and the left agree on the hospital marketplace: what’s wrong and how to fix it.
  • Snakes kill roughly 100,000 people a year.
  • Paul Romer: “There are more possible DNA sequences than there are elementary particles in the universe.”
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Tuesday Links – 19 May 2026

Posted on May 19, 2026May 18, 2026 by John C. Goodman
  • “SpaceX has filed with federal regulators to launch up to a million satellites for its own orbital data-center network…”
  • Best quote I have seen on the challenges of space: Andy Weir in The Martian, “Everything out there is trying to kill you.”
  • Matthew Holt:  Fifty-six percent of Americans rate the quality of care as “poor” or “fair,” and 90% believe we’re overpaying for it.
  • Nurse practitioners are filling America’s doctor shortage: Their ranks grew 60% to 461,000 between 2019 and 2025.
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Nurse Practitioners are Increasingly Treating Patients; Why Aren’t Pharmacists?

Posted on May 18, 2026 by Devon Herrick

Advance practice nurses, such as nurse practitioners (NPs), are picking up some of the slack left by doctors of osteopathy (DOs) and medical doctors (MDs). NPs can do many of the same patient care tasks that physicians perform but with less training and at lower pay.

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