- Raw milk is not better for you. The safety benefits of pasteurization far outweigh the drawbacks.
- One in six infection is resistant to the current roster of antibiotics.
- Why are babies eating ultra processed baby food? (WSJ)
- Why are there so many medical tests that the doctor didn’t order?
- “Medical debt was consistently associated with worse health and cancer outcomes.”
- Can personality characteristics predict lifetime success and failure? HT: Arnold Kling
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Congress Debating Extending Medicare Hospital Care at Home Program
Hospital care at home involves a homecare nurse (or homecare technician), who swings by to check on patients, administer medicines, change bandages, etc. This is primarily recovery. (i.e., There is no surgery being done on the dining room table.) One thing that is different today (besides better medicines) is the ability to monitor patients remotely. Vital signs can even be reviewed by a physician miles away.
Friday Links
- Mamdani has one good idea for New York City.
- Michael Cannon: The Minnesota fraud case is not usual.
- Obstacle to AI doctoring: there are no CPT codes. Another problem: It is explicitly illegal in all 50 states for AI to prescribe, treat, diagnose, and refer without an appropriate medical license.
- Reverse Flynn effect: IQ scores have been falling.
- The federal (Obamacare) exchange approved subsidized health insurance for 23 of 24 fictitious applications submitted by GAO.
- From 2018 to 2023, the number of direct primary care and concierge practice sites grew by 83.1 percent and the number of clinicians participating in them by 78.4 percent.
Biohackers are Taking Medicine into Their Own Hands: Should You?
People mostly do not question the requirement that their doctors must authorize prescription drug therapies. This is slowly changing, however. Patients increasingly turn to telemedicine websites, whose presence seems to consist of little more than web-based questionnaires.