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Category: Doctors & Hospitals

WSJ: Suicide a Significant Problem Among Young Doctors

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Devon Herrick

Suicide is also a problem even among those who are thought to be enjoying the good life, including young physicians, reports the Wall Street Journal:

“The fact that the medical profession has one of the highest rates of burnout and suicide, compared to other professions, speaks to the urgent need for change,” Mortimer told The City, a local news site, in November 2022.

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Monday Links – 28 April 2025

Posted on April 28, 2025April 27, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • How Obamacare changed the health insurance marketplace.
  • Worker pay and worker productivity are almost perfectly correlated.
  • Florida GOP investigates a $10 million Medicaid contractor settlement payment that went to Casey DeSantis’s foundation.
  • Yale has one administrator for every undergraduate student.
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Saturday Links

Posted on April 26, 2025April 25, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • AAF: tariffs are especially bad for small business.
  • Site neural payments would save taxpayers an estimated $150 billion over 10 years. 
  • Historically, Washington covered about 60% of Medicaid costs. Today, Washington pays nearly 75%. 
  • Merely requiring states to more frequently check whether current beneficiaries still qualify would save federal taxpayers $115 billion over a decade.
  • The prophet’s paradox: The better policymakers manage a potential crisis, the more likely it is that the public will perceive their actions as overreactions.
  • Breakthrough: scientists send a quantum message.
  • AEI: Fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid and Medicare.
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Is the Doctor-Patient Relationship Declining?

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Devon Herrick

Today about three-quarters of physicians have a boss. They are employees of hospitals, private equity-owed group practices, and even work for retail clinics. The trust doctors and patients may have shared in 1963 is eroding due to insurance coverage, time constraints and even perverse medical norms.

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