- Why patients don’t get enough pain medicine: doctor indifference and drug thieves.
- The annual retail value of goods Americans buy and then return approaches a trillion dollars. HT: Tyler
- Main drug killer of 35 to 44-year-old adults by far is synthetic opioids.
- Should we care about “forever chemicals” that lurk in so much of what we eat, drink and use? Studies show they are bad for rats. (NYT)
- Man believes pediatric doctor reported him to Child Protective Services in retaliation over a bad Google review.
- Richard Hanania with a commonsense review of the risks and benefits of the Covid vaccine.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Thursday Links
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.
Wednesday Links
- 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.
Monday Links
- 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?