Archive for the ‘ Health and Medicine ’ Category
Meet CJ a young black dope-dealing male who was diagnosed with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in his mid-twenties. After a few years of extreme non-compliance with his medications and follow-up he lands on dialysis at this early age. By now he has started to sample his own merchandise and is addicted to cocaine, and opiates. His [ READ MORE ]
Wrote my views on the distance of doctors from the mainstream vocal healthcare debate some time ago. Here is an even more indepth look at this phenomenon, and with some historical insight[ READ MORE ]
During the course of medical training every doctor-to-be is schooled in the avoidance of conflict with patients. We are told to suspend moral judgements on patients` lifestyles, politics, religion and so on and hone in only on the human being that needs our help. For this reason one (as a patient) might find it difficult [ READ MORE ]
In a rational world, one would expect that a debate on healthcare would be dominated by the voices of healthcare providers. Unfortunately the United States of America seems to have seceeded from the rational universe. Whose voices are we hearing most? Politicians, talk show hosts, the general public, all expected guests at the banquet. In [ READ MORE ]
Here`s a story of coincidence. Happened to meet a dentist a couple weeks ago and the conversation got around to consumer-driven healthcare. Healthcare in which consumers have enough information about cost and quality to make choices in their own healthcare just like we choose our fruit in the supermarket aisles. To me this is like [ READ MORE ]
Physicians are no strangers to burning the midnight oil. I often think that the idea of emergency duty could only have begun in the medical profession. The first necessity for an emergency responder most plausibly originated with health emergencies. Maybe as times went on and nations became industrialized the medical need was joined by the [ READ MORE ]
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