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.…
Brain injuries: Long-Term Cognitive Deficits Seen With Traumatic Brain Injury
I should not even be functional: The researchers found that people who reported three or more concussions had significantly worse cognitive function; those who had four or more mild concussion…
Brain injuries: Brain injuries frequently neglected in treatment
“That being said, there are some wonderful medical providers, therapy providers who thoroughly understand brain injury. I work with colleagues up at Oregon Health Sciences University, my colleagues down at…
Automation: Robotic nursing assistant
https://twitter.com/HumanVsMachine/status/1632091609243197444