Non-Compliance with Wearing a Mask as a Precaution Limit the Spread of COVID-19 in the Society: Is It Considered a Crime in the UAE Federal Legislation? A Comparative Study
Muna Alwasmi (University of Sharjah), Non-Compliance with Wearing a Mask as a Precaution Limit the Spread of COVID-19 in the Society: Is It Considered a Crime in the UAE Federal Legislation? A Comparative Study, SSRN (2022): The COVID-19 epidemic has... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 23, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
A call to stop overworking [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. “We are in an epidemic of gaslighting in medicine. The best definition I heard of gaslighting is transferring your authority on yourself from you to someone else. We give up our authority on ourselves to everyone else but ourselves. We leave our feelings of work ethic to our currentRead more …A call to stop overworking [PODCAST] originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 30, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Moment in the Sun
From economic historian Brad DeLong,a brief summary of the extreme weirdness of our time. He presents the table below without giving any source, and the seemingly precise quantification is certainly questionable, but the basic idea is undoubtedly correct. What ' s important is not the numbers, but the idea. Right now the income per capita of all humanity is almost 13 times what it was in 1500. Another way of looking at this is that it took 20 workers in 1870 to produce what one worker can today. And yet, we still have billions of people living in abject poverty. Even in a wealthy country like th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 30, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The epidemic of work dread
Work dread. Even if you didn’t know it had a name, you know the feeling. It is that sensation in the pit of your stomach when you realize that the start of your workday or workweek is fast approaching, and you don’t want it to come. Sometimes it begins on Sunday afternoon when you wantRead more …The epidemic of work dread originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 17, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/michael-hersh" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Michael Hersh, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Gastroenterology Source Type: blogs
Matthew ’s health care tidbits: Hospital shooting reveals so much
Each week I’ve been adding a brief tidbits section to the THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB that week (Sign up here!). Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt
In this edition’s tidbits, the nation is once again dealing with an epidemic of shootings. Now a hospital joins schools, grocery stores and places of worship on the the recent list. I was struck by how much of the health care story was wrapped up in the tragic shooting where a patient took the life of Dr. Preston Phillips, Dr. Stephanie Husen, receptionist Am...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Hospitals Matthew Holt Chronic Back Pain Gun Control gun violence medical racism opiates orthopedic treatment structural racism Source Type: blogs
Planning for Pandemic and Epidemic-Related Drug Scarcity
Sapna Kumar (University of Houston), Ana Santos Rutschman (Saint Louis University), Planning for Pandemic and Epidemic-Related Drug Scarcity in Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures (Haochen Sun& Madhavi Sunder, eds. 2023): The COVID-19 pandemic... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 10, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Nurture yourself, get rest, and allow yourself the space you need to heal. #MeFirst
An individual crisis unfolds daily. Each starts small. When I learned about epidemics in medical school, I thought they were uncommon. I was wrong. COVID has taught us what happens if we do not address a crisis with the urgency it deserves. The COVID crisis quickly became an epidemic and then a pandemic. The obesityRead more …Nurture yourself, get rest, and allow yourself the space you need to heal. #MeFirst originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/liz-aguirre" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Liz Aguirre, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Report from the Annual Research Meeting
As it turns out, my most notable observation is from outside the conference hall. The pocket parks on the street corners in the heart of downtown Washington, by the convention center and the tourist hotels and Chinatown, are all filled with tent encampments. I ' ve lived in D.C. for two different spells in the past, and visited regularly over the years, and I had never seen this before. I still follow the Boston news, and the biggest issue in the last mayoral race was a huge encampment at Massachusetts Avenue and Melina Cass Boulevard. We ' ve also been reading about these encampments as a major issue in other cities, nota...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 9, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
“Prohibition Theater” and “The Iron Law of Prohibition”
Jeffrey A. SingerA May 18 opinion column in theWall Street Journal by Joseph Grogan and Casey B. Mulligan titled “Fentanyl Overdose Rates Are Rising Fast” argued that to better address the overdose crisis, the Biden administration should tighten border security, give law enforcement better tools to combat the drug trade, toughen sentencing, and add illicit fentanyl and its analogs (easily created in clandestine labs) to the Drug Enforcement Admini stration’s Schedule 1 (“no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse ”), joining cannabis, LSD, heroin, MDMA (“ecstasy”) and other drugs wi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 31, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Paxlovid Paradox, Part 3: What We Could Do Better Now
The previous articles in this series described what it’s like to try to get home treatments for COVID-19, and how it would ideally work. This final article looks at particular changes that regulators and health IT practitioners could do to help cope with the next health crisis. Tracking and measuring the epidemic We’ve already discussed […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Cary Breese COVID-19 CVS Health Data Interoperability Data Sharing directtrust Information Blocking molnupiravir NowRx Paxlovid Pharmacies Walgreens Source Type: blogs
Paxlovid Paradox, Part 2: An Ideal Scenario
The first article in this three-part series criticized the conditions of COVID-19 treatment in the United States. Now let’s look toward the future: what we do ideally if we had an epidemic and a treatment we wanted to administer quickly to patients? The ideas in this article combine observations of mine over several years with […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amber Glauser Cloudticity COVID-19 Data Interoperability Data Sharing Dr. Steve Mok Healthcare Drones Information Blocking Medication Delivery Source Type: blogs
DOJ Overcriminalization: Prosecuting Physicians
Cathleen London (University of Maine), DOJ Overcriminalization: Prosecuting Physicians, SSRN (2022): The primary narrative directing opioid policy is that the overdose epidemic is driven by clinician overprescribing, creating patient addicts. This has led to draconian laws and the use of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 24, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Worst case scenario
Kim Jong Un has, to widespread surprise,announced that the DPRK is facing an explosive Covid epidemic. The surprise, of course, is not that it is happening, but they he has admitted it. The official story out of North Korea is that they had succeeded in keeping the virus out of the country entirely, by closing borders, until recently. Then this catastrophe happened.Many people are skeptical of that account and believe the virus must have been in the country earlier, but I ' m inclined to think it may be true because whenever it arrived, we would almost certainly have seen widespread infection, sickness and death. The count...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 20, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
3 solutions to combat rising drug overdoses during COVID-19
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD. Recent data from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has shown a sharp increase in drug-related overdoses attributed to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, deepening the tragedies of the already challenged opioid epidemic and COV ID-19 pandemic. Unraveling the snowball effect of these public health challengesRead more …3 solutions to combat rising drug overdoses during COVID-19 originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/anita-gupta" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Anita Gupta, DO, PharmD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
A fair and balanced take
I wrote here some weeks ago that I didn ' t think mask mandates were still necessary or generally productive.Mike Nichols in The Atlantic agreesand he raises the difficult questions we face every day and seldom think about regarding what risks to accept. What worries me is that these problems are complicated and the people who are trying to make them simple have caused a lot of problems.Before we had effective vaccines and a high level of population immunity, masks and distancing were the only means we had to mitigate the pandemic. And yes, they worked where they were consistently applied. This is convincingly demonstrated...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 21, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
