Health: Weight and dieting
Thoughts on gaining and losing weight and comments on various “diets”, why they may or may not work, and a possible secret to success.
Business of health care: 1/3d of United Health’s health insurance is managing Medicare and Medicaid clients
Medicare and Medicaid memberships make up a third of the company’s health insurance business. It added 655,000 Medicare Advantage members and 570,000 Medicaid members in the quarter. Source: UnitedHealth expects…
Brain injuries: What happened to singer Amy Grant?
Another bike crash and brain injury story: What happened to singer Amy Grant? Update: I suffered a bike crash and experienced a 5″ long skull fracture when I was about…
Health care: Men afraid to perform CPR on women
Multiple surveys find that men are reluctant to perform CPR on women for fear of being accused of sexual assault.
Healthcare: Interesting example of “healthcare privilege”
44 inpatient days at Walter Reed: Pennsylvania hospitals admit thousands of people for depression annually. Only a small fraction of patients stay as long as Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman did…
Why the shortage of Adderall and Xanax? Because we are a nation of idiots
A secret pharmacy order limit has made patients with sleep, anxiety and attention disorders scramble for their medications. Source: Adderall, Xanax Are Hard to Get Because of the Opioid Crisis…
Education: Costs of attending elite universities now up to $90,000 per year, or $360k for 4 years
This illustrates the broken college market: For lower and middle income students, with an average household income below $125,000, the price to attend highly selective universities has actually gone down,…
Health care: Cigna insurance denies claims without even looking at the patient’s medical record
https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1639586525825441792
Health care: “Most headache-related brain scans aren’t needed”
Brain MRI’s are said to have little value in treating patients with headaches – but we do ever more of them: In their JAMA Internal Medicine paper, the researchers reported…
Brain injuries: “A third of all brain injuries go unreported – NZ Herald”
The likelihood of having a second concussion is high and damage can be cumulative. So even if the number one injury recovers just fine, number two might cause more issues.…