- If “best practices” in medicine really are best practices, why can’t we just copy them everywhere else?
- Although over 80% of insured adults rate their health insurance as “good” or “excellent,” most have difficulty understanding and using it – especially if they are in fair or poor health.
- Marijuana in Colorado: In Denver there are more than 200 licensed recreational dispensaries alone. There are 700 licensed cultivation sites in the state.
- Are dementia rates falling?
- Should we expand pharmacists’ scope of practice to the full extent of their training, as they did in New Zealand and Canada?
Category: Policy & Legislation
Nearly One-Quarter of Doctors (and Medical Students) are Considering Quitting Medicine
A new study found that one-quarter of medical students are so disenchanted with their program they are considering quitting. A much larger proportion of medical students and nursing students (58%) would prefer a career in health care where they don’t treat patients. Students were especially worried about the cost of their education, but also burdened by the…
Tuesday Links
- Misinformation Update: One of the strangest aspects of the Covid pandemic was the early insistence by the WHO and the CDC that COVID was not airborne.
- Good news: since before the pandemic, Americans’ wealth is way up, and inequality is down.
- A positive view of doctor assisted suicide. (NYT)
- 55 percent of E.R. doctors say they have been physically assaulted, almost all by patients.
- New test says it can find cancer for $949. Why do some doctors think that is not a good idea? (WSJ)
OTC Hearing Aids Approved One Year Ago, No Thanks to the FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally got something right when it finalized rules allowing over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. Only kidding. The FDA can’t take credit for OTC hearing aids. It took the FDA five years after Congress passed legislation in 2017 forcing the FDA to create a category of OTC hearing aids.