- A lot of medical and nursing students are planning on doing something other than direct patient care.
- Study: Health care privatization is good for patients.
- Policies established by close referendums tend to stay in effect for many years thereafter. (HT: Tyler)
- Occupational licensing study: Official recognition of out‐of‐state licenses increases employment of licensed occupations without sacrificing service quality.
- A national medical student group called White Coats for Black Lives took the occasion of the murder of more than 1,000 Jews to provide a full-throated expression of solidarity with Palestine.
Category: Direct Primary Care
Tuesday Links
- “Many older people are one medical emergency away from a court-appointed guardian taking control of their lives.”
- The hypothalamus, a cone shaped part of the human brain no bigger than an almond, affects whether we feel hungry and helps control our metabolism. (NYT)
- Kansas and Virginia Medicaid programs paid MCOs for beneficiaries who were dead. (InsideHealthPolicy paywall)
- Solution to rural health care: telemedicine. But you need an internet connection.
Direct Primary Care is Taking Off, and Getting Noticed by Medical Journals
Medscape Medical News has discovered direct primary care (DPC). Medscape, owned my WebMD, is a medical news, peer-reviewed medical journal and educational website for doctors and other medical professionals. Dr. George Lundberg became its editor-in-chief in 1999, after 17 years as the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
FDA: Eye Surgeons Need to Inform Patients about Lasik Risks
Over the years I’ve had numerous people tell me their eye surgery was great! Also, a few who said it was not great. I’ve also heard from various sources that there are side effects that are rarely discussed