Physicians are burned out. Could entrepreneurship be a cure?
Recently, roughly 400 primary care and urgent care physicians at Allina Health System voted to unionize. In doing so, they became the largest group of unionized private-sector physicians in the country. Their decision is indicative of a hard reality of American health care–physicians are burned out. Research shows from 2021 to 2022, 63 percent of surveyed
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Physicians are burned out. Could entrepreneurship be a cure? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Arun Mohan, MD, MBA Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Economics 101: For real this time
As you know, I ' m what ' s called an econoclast -- I think standard economic theory with which freshmen are indoctrinated is bullshit. However, there are actual real facts about the economy that correspond to history and common sense. One is that over the long run -- and even almost always over the short run -- prices go up, and money is worth less and less. Here is the U.S. consumer price index since 2014: The only time it ' s actually gone down since the Great Depression is the 2008 financial crisis, and even then you can barely see it. This chart ends before the recent moderation in inflation, but yes it did...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 7, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Greatest Hits
Psalm 23 is the best known. In Judaism, it is commonly recited during Kiddush, and funeral ceremonies. It is also sung in Catholic funeral masses and is incorporated in the Book of Common Prayer. In modern times it has been given many musical settings, usually somewhat redacted to conform to rhyme and meter. Psalm 24 is the inspiration for the hymn " Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates, " written by the German protestant George Weissel during the Thirty Years War, in which he reinterprets the King of glory, referring to God in the original, as Christ the Messiah. Presumably in the original it refers to the openi...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Where is AI in Medicine Going? Ask The Onion.
By MIKE MAGEE
One of the top ten headlines of all time created by the satirical geniuses at The Onion was published 25 years ago this December. It read, “God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy. ‘No,’ Says God.”
The first paragraph of that column introduced us to Timmy Yu, an optimistic 7-year old, who despite the failures of the health system had held on to his “precious dream.” As the article explained, “From the bottom of his heart, he has hoped against hope that God would someday hear his prayer to walk again. Though many thought Timmy’s heavenly plea would never be answered, his dream finally...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Cris Ross John Halamka Mayo Clinic Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Rigged Capitalism
Jonathan Kirshner, in the LA Review of Books,reviews Martin Wolf ' s The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. Wolf is, to his credit, a lapsed neoliberal who has come to see that the Free Market ™ is a myth, and that the capture of the polity by plutocrats threatens to doom democracy. Kirshner ' s essay is difficult to summarize, as it makes several important, interlocking points. I do think the argument is inadequate to fully explain the devolution of the Republican party into a reality denying cult, but it does at least contribute to our understanding:Economic inequality, on the rise for 50 years, has soared to ever
great...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 4, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Source material
Psalm 22* is notable because it is quoted at several points in various gospels in the story of the crucifixion, and also quoted in the Letter to the Hebrews. That some of the events of the crucifixion are actually lifted from a song written some five centuries before it purportedly happened may give believers pause. Specifically:Verse 1, " My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? " is quoted in Mark 15:34 and Matthew 2:46, as words Jesus spoke while on the cross. ( אלי אלי למה עזבתני)El í, Elí, láma azavtháni. This is an important passage to Christian theologians. (Of course he would actually have...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 3, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler, husband of Moms For Liberty cofounder, accused of sexual battery by alleged menage a trois lover
Please folks, I am totally in agreement that Hamas is an unacceptable threat and that the organization must be neutralized. That does not mean that the Israeli military has the right to indiscriminately massacre civilians. Evidently some of you support genocide, as long as the right people are being exterminated. Yes, yes, at this point it ' s only an allegation, it has not been substantiated. But the headline is irresistible, and we know this happens all the time, from Roy Cohn to Larry Craig to Ted Haggard. The harder these people thump their Bibles and persecute homosexuals, the better the odds that they are exactl...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 2, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Lessons from historical drug prohibitions
New Zealand just rescinded its ban on tobacco smoking at the same time that Donald Trump just suggested the death penalty could cure the drug problem. What did New Zealand learn? And how has drug prohibition worked out in the past? In 1511, the governor of Mecca, Khair Beg, had a serious problem. A powerful
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Lessons from historical drug prohibitions originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Conditions Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Science
Note: I am aware that the charter of Hamas can be construed as racist. I do not defend Hamas. That is beside the point of my recent post. Psalm 19 is interesting for at least two reasons. Verses 5 and 6 were cited by the court in the trial of Galileo, for his heresy of claiming that the earth rotates, and revolves around the sun. The last verse, omitting the words " my rock and my redeemer, " are recited by the priest from the Book of Common Prayer in the Episcopal church. It may be used in other denominations as well, but that ' s the one I ' m familiar with. Psalm 20 is a prayer for victory in war, about ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 29, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Personal Connections
Of the three Palestinian young men who were shot in Vermont two days ago, one is a student at Brown University, where I am on the faculty; one is a student at Haverford College, the " sister " institution of my alma mater, where I spent two summers participating in a theater program and otherwise visited often to see friends; and Trinity College in Hartford, which I have also visited at least twice. They became friends because they all attended a prep school in Ramallah, in the West Bank. Their families thought they would be safer now that they are all in the U.S. So obviously I can relate to them. At their age I was in a ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 28, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Let the secret out by expanding older adults ’ access to PACE
PACE, the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, has long been considered the best-kept secret in the American health care system. It’s time to unveil this hidden gem. The health and well-being of older Americans – and the future of our health care system itself – may hinge on it. Originating nearly half a
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Let the secret out by expanding older adults’ access to PACE originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Adam Burrows, MD Tags: Physician Geriatrics Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Cut and Paste
Psalm 18 is the longest of the psalms, so it ' s the only one you ' ll get today. However, I thought of skipping it because it ' s actually copied from 2 Samuel 22. Since they didn ' t have a Xerox machine there is a word or two different here and there, but it ' s just as possible that this was the original and the song in Samuel is the copy. Anyway, you ' ve certainly forgotten it but you ' ve already read it if you ' ve been with us long enough. It ' s the usual jingoistic, exterminationist violence from the Deuteronomistic history. It ' s not just boasting of winning the civil war over Saul -- it also boasts...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 26, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Chaos Machine
That ' s the title of a book by Max Fisher. I ' m only halfway through it but I ' ve already seen plenty. Fisher documents with excruciating detail how so-called social media -- most notably Facebook, YouTube, the application formerly known as Twitter, and TikTok -- use mindless machine learning to hijack some of people ' s natural tendencies and drive them into cesspools of disinformation, extremism, and hatred. The companies that own that own these platforms know full well what is happening but they only care about money and they adamantly refuse to do anything about it. Facebook has literally caused mob viole...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 25, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A bit more on Israel/Palestine
I ' m just going to outsource to Josh Marshall here, this is a bit he shows on his front page so no problem sharing it, although the rest of it is paywalled.In a few recent posts we ’ve discussed the question of whether one
state or two states is the most logical or possible resolution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (You can see my argumenthere.) A few days ago TPM ReaderRC sent me this AprilForeign Affairs article,Israel ’s One-State Reality.
It was written by three scholars at GW and another at the University of
Maryland. The piece was interesting to me because it illustrates a lot
of what the one st...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 23, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Straw men
I got a few comments on my post about gun safety that I didn ' t publish because they attack a straw man. I explicitly, and loudly, at the very beginning, said that I did not have any problem whatsoever with people owning guns. In fact I ' m all for it because the deer population here is out of control. This is also true of the approximately 80% of Americans who favor gun safety laws that are quite similar to the Swiss laws, which are not generally in effect in the U.S. and which the Supreme Court would probably rule to be unconstitutional. The Swiss ban large capacity magazines, automatic weapons and many non-firearm weap...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 22, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
