High-profile legal cases: social media ’ s role in modern justice [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! We explore the intersection of high-profile legal cases and social media with renowned psychiatrist and author Doug Bremner. In this episode, we’ll be discussing the impact of social media on public perception, the challenges of maintaining due process in the digital
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 11, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Malpractice lawsuits: a data-driven approach to risk management
The first book I ever read was The Last Angry Man. I could never have imagined then how it would influence me now. It is about a fictional character, Dr. Samuel Abelman. He is a general practitioner practicing in New York City during the 1950s. He is in the twilight of a career that spans
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Malpractice lawsuits: a data-driven approach to risk management originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 11, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Howard Smith, MD Tags: Physician Malpractice Source Type: blogs
How do we stop a resurgence of fascism?
Is it bad to write for hard-right outlets?
There is no doubt that the Overton window has shifted to the right during the last decade or two. It is now common to hear people saying things that, even in 2010 would have been thought to be frankly fascistic.
I recall a conversation with the great biophysicist, Sir Bernard Katz, in 1992. He had come to UCL in 1936 to escape from the Nazi regime in Leipzig. When I suggested to him that he must have been very pleased about the reunification of Germany, he pulled a long face and said “hmm, let’s wait to see what crawls out from under stones”. ...
Source: DC's goodscience - March 11, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Alan Sokal anti-vaccination antiscience Deborah Cohen fascism Margaret McCartney Paul Marshall Quillette sceptics skeptics Spiked Toby Young transgender UnHerd Source Type: blogs
The ‘Barbie Speech’ – How Much Has Really Changed For Women in America?
By MIKE MAGEE
In our world where up is down, and black is white, there is a left and a right – it’s the middle we appear to be missing. Does it exist, or was it make believe all along?
Into this existential despair enters Britt Cagle Grant, the 47-year old Federal Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The Stanford Law graduate, blessed by the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo, and former clerk of Hon. Brett Kavanaugh, was nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate on July 31, 2018.
Now six years later, her words in rejecting DeSantis’s “Stop Woke Act” (otherwise kno...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Barbie De Santis feminism Mike Magee Terry Sciaivo Source Type: blogs
But I digress
The UCONN women ' s basketball team has been short-handed all season because five players are out with season-ending injuries. So they ' ve lot some game to the top teams but they ' ve still managed to be undefeated in Big East conference play. Yesterday they faced Providence College in the second round of the Big East tournament. PC ' s strategy was to beat the crap out of UCONN center Aaliyah Edwards, which the referees for some reason allowed them to do, causing Geno Auriemma nearly to have a stroke on sideline. The assistant coaches had to put him in a double arm bar to keep him off the court.Providence managed to hang...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 10, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Is It Worth Buying Dexcom CGM Sensors from Best Buy Health? The only way to know with certainty is to do the math!
Last autumn, on October 9, 2023, the electronics retailer Best Buy announced (seehttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231009526652/en/Best-Buy-to-Sell-Continuous-Glucose-Monitoring-Systems/ for the press release) that it had started a mail order business called "Best Buy Health"https://wellness.bestbuyhealth.com/ which it said would sell CGM sensors among other products. Best Buy Health aims to sell more than just CGM sensors. Its LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/company/best-buy-health/ describes the business this way:" Best Buy Health aims to enrich and save lives through technology and meaningful connections. ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - March 9, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 2024 Best Buy Best Buy Health Costco Source Type: blogs
Monopoly Money
First, let me acknowledge Chuck ' s comment on the previous Economics 101 post. I ' m going to get to public goods, it ' s extremely important, but I figured I ' d push it down the list because it ' s easier to deal with the rest of the assumptions first. (To put it formally, the ones having to do with public goods are that all good are non-exclusive and non-rivalrous, and also that there are no positive externalities. I will explain anon.)Today, I ' m going to deal with the Many sellers, Many buyers assumption. It ' s obviously impossible even for Milton Friedman to bamboozle people into thinking that this is somehow a na...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 8, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Six U.S. Execution Methods and the Disastrous Quest for Humaneness
Deborah W. Denno (Fordham University), Six U.S. Execution Methods and the Disastrous Quest for Humaneness(Fordham L. Legal Stud. Rsch. Paper No. 4689058) (2024): This chapter examines the history and current status of the United States ' six execution methods: hanging, firing... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 8, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Restorative Justice Diversion as a Structural Health Intervention in the Criminal Legal System
Thalia Gonz ález (University of California), Restorative Justice Diversion as a Structural Health Intervention in the Criminal Legal System, 113 J. Crim. L.& Criminology (2023): A new discourse at the intersection of criminal justice and public health is bringing to... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 7, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
What do you know?
The next assumption on our list, on which the theory of the (non-existent) Free Market ™ depends, is the assumption of perfect information. Okay, it doesn ' t have to be absolutely perfect, but it has to at least be pretty good. In order for a transaction to really benefit both parties, they both have to know what they ' re getting and what they ' re giving for it. Once we ' re off the island of Bob and Alice, of course, what ' s normally happening is that one person is exchanging money for a good or service, so the transaction is asymmetrical pretty much by definition -- there ' s a seller and a buyer.Most people don ' ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 5, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fee-For-Service: Predominant, Winning & Stupid
By MATTHEW HOLT
In recent days and weeks, there have been three stories that have really brought home to me the inanity of how we run our health care system. Spoiler alert, they have the commonality that they all are made problematic by payment per individual transaction—better known as fee-for-service.
First, several health insurers who sold their reputation to Wall Street as being wizards at understanding how doctors and patients behave had the curtain pulled back to reveal the man pulling the levers was missing a dashboard or dial or three. It happened to United, Humana and more, but I’ll focus on Agilon becau...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Change Healthcare Colorado fee for service Humana UCHealth United HealthGroup Source Type: blogs
Legal Regulation of Whole Genome Sequencing of Listeria monocytogenes in the Food Industry: Challenges, Attitudes, Possibilities
Christiane Hunsbedt, Lee A. Bygrave (University of Oslo), Annette Fagerlund (Nofima), Solveig Langsrund (Nofima), Legal Regulation of Whole Genome Sequencing of Listeria monocytogenes in the Food Industry: Challenges, Attitudes, Possibilities (Univ. Oslo Fac. L. Rsch. Paper No. 2024-01) (2024): This... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 3, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Issues when Determining Negligence
Paul Nolan (Australian Bar Association), Rita Matulionyte (Macquarie Law School), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Issues when Determining Negligence (2023): The introduction of novel medical technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), into traditional clinical practice presents legal liability challenges that need... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 2, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Is intellectual property the COVID-19 bad guy? Lessons we could learn from the pandemic
Charles Lawson (Griffith University), Is intellectual property the COVID-19 bad guy? Lessons we could learn from the pandemic (2023): At the time the COVID-19 pandemic was declared there was no vaccine and other medical products were insufficient to meet demands.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 2, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Are AI Clinical Protocols A Dobb-ist Trojan Horse?
By MIKE MAGEE
For most loyalist Americans at the turn of the 19th century, Justice John Marshall Harlan’s decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). was a “slam dunk.” In it, he elected to force a reluctant Methodist minister in Massachusetts to undergo Smallpox vaccination during a regional epidemic or pay a fine.
Justice Harlan wrote at the time: “Real liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own, whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others.”
What could ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion AI Dobbs Forced Sterilization Mike Magee racial bias SCOTUS Vaccination Source Type: blogs
