- How politically biased is the new JAMA editor?
- David Friedman on Project 2025.
- Making medical school tuition free does not produce more primary care physicians or send more graduates to underserved areas.
- Claim: more than 100 million Americans are without regular access to primary care.
- Chinese government officials are implementing mandatory testing of large language models to make sure they “embody core socialist values.”
- Everything to know about occupational licensing. Recommended
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Saturday Links
- The number of active drug shortages in the U.S. is 300, down from an all-time high of 323. But nothing to cheer about.
- Microsoft global outage forces health systems to cancel appointments, delay procedures.
- Everything to know about the theory of language.
- OpenAI’s GPT-4o scored 98 percent on some of the most challenging parts of the US Medical Licensing Examination.
- Happiness seems to increase with the log of absolute income, so going from $50k to $100k has a much larger impact than going from $250k to $300k.
- How the Biden administration interprets “march-in” rights: New guidance explicitly states that the government could march in and seize the patents underlying any product officials think is overpriced, in fields from AI to aeronautics. Recommended.
We Are Becoming More Like Canada Every Day
A study of a group of community health clinics in the OCHIN Network found that only 43% of patient specialty care referrals were successfully completed between October 2022 and September 2023. This means patients did not receive necessary follow-up care more than 57% of the time. Even when patients booked a referral appointment, they were forced to wait an average of 73 days for access to a gastroenterologist, 62 days for a cardiologist, and 54 days for a behavioral health specialist.
Social Medicine: Would You Attend Interactive Group Therapy on YouTube?
Surveys going back 20 years have consistently found that more than 100 million Americans search online for health information annually. Google reports there are roughly 70,000 health related searches every minute. One article even claimed doctors use Google and YouTube to learn about disease and conditions they treat.