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Category: Medical Tourism

Mosquitoes Bite Some People More than Others

Posted on August 8, 2022 by Devon Herrick

My wife and I like to sit out on our patio in the evening with our dog Clementine. This is a ritual we’ve done for years. We’ve noticed something curious about sitting outdoors. My wife gets bitten by mosquitoes far more than I do. We spent a month at an Airbnb in a Costa Rican jungle a few miles from the Pacific coast back in 2018. My wife had to fight off mosquitoes and no-see-ums while I hardly noticed them.

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Covid-Chasing Travel Nurse Bubble Burst but Not Going Away

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Devon Herrick

The Wall Street Journal had an article about the falling use of travel nurses. At the peak of the pandemic nurses willing to travel from one hot spot to another could sometimes earn as much as $10,000 per week.

Hospitals across the U.S. have had to dig deep to treat patients during the Covid-19 pandemic as some of the most lucrative parts of their business, elective surgeries, were constantly postponed. The flip side of that has been a bonanza for the companies that helped them keep staffing levels adequate as well as for the brave and flexible people who filled those positions.

By contrast, nurses who stayed in their regular jobs often found themselves working mandatory overtime in understaffed hospitals filled to the brim with Covid patients. When they complained about too many hours, low wages and a lack of personal protection equipment their complaints were often dismissed.

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Friday Links

Posted on June 10, 2022July 25, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • 80 experts object to a proposal to slap a 95% tax on drugs that do not submit to price controls.
  • China has matched the United States in output in seven high-tech sectors, including pharmaceuticals and medical products. 
  • If worry about climate change is a mental health issue, why is the W.H.O. contributing to the problem?
  • The good news on immigration.
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Thursday Links

Posted on June 9, 2022July 25, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • A Bloody Waste: Why is the Red Cross turning down healthy blood that is being thrown away?
  • Uvalde follow-up: While most people think that police have a duty to attempt to protect people from harm, the law has been clear—cops have no such duty.
  • Coffee keeps you awake. Can it also keep you alive?
  • Drug cartels in northern Mexico are kidnapping doctors to tend to gang members wounded in battle.
  • Capretta on Medicare Part B: the government’s contribution to the SMI Trust fund will be $6.0 trillion over the period 2022 to 2031, reaching the equivalent of about 30 percent of all individual and corporate income tax receipts at the end of 75 years.
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