Category: Direct Primary Care
Is Aging a Disease? Or is it Merely the Cause of Age-Related Diseases?
As people age their health deteriorates and they become more prone to diseases and chronic conditions. For instance, heart disease kills more Americans than any other ailment. Heart disease is correlated with advanced age. About 80% of deaths from heart disease are age 65 or older.
Cancer too is a disease of old age. Fewer than 25 cancer diagnosis per 100,000 population occurs in people under the age of 20. For those age 45 to 49 the rate of cancer per 100,000 people is 350. Once you reach age 60 cancer rates are triple, with more than 1,000 per 100,000 population.
Nearly 334,000 Medical Providers Quit in 2021
Public health experts have long predicted that the United States will increasingly suffer from a shortage of physicians. The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that the physician shortage could reach 120,000 medical providers by 2034. A new report finds that nearly 334,000 health care providers left the field in 2021. This includes doctors and nurse practitioners.
As a profession, physicians lost the most members, with 117,000 individuals leaving their roles last year, followed by nurse practitioners, which lost 53,295 members and physician assistants, with 22,704 positions vacated, according to a report published Thursday by Definitive Healthcare.
Monday Links
- Cotopaxi Drugs joins 11 Walgreens stores that have closed in the last three years due to rising crime in San Francisco. HT: CTUP
- Study: After a nuclear accident, Japan shut down all its nuclear reactors. That led to an increase in energy prices and that led to more deaths.
- Every time a drug switches from prescription to OTC, the total number of doctor visits drops.
- Does earlier detection of lung cancer lead to better survival: Here’s why we don’t know.
- David Friedman on Black Reparations and other issues. Recommended.
- Tyler Cowen: “Single parent families can be disastrous. In Colombia the current rate of that is 84 (!) percent. In Argentina, Mexico, and Chile it is more than half. For India I see estimates ranging from 4.5 percent to 7.5 percent for single parent families.”