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" Strike Two " : A Pediatrician ' s " Dance " with Alan Levine/Ballad Health - And WHY We Need Federal Medical Whistle-blower Protection For ALL Healthcare " Workers " NOW
This is the story of how government failed me as a Pediatrician - for the second time.  The saddest thing of all is that there is a " Strike Three " .  Nobody cares about Pediatrics - or Pediatricians.  They haven ' t for a very long time.  This is a long post.  Don ' t whine about it.  Read it. CARE that somebody trying to stand up for your children lived it - and not for the first time.Twenty-two years ago, the morally-bankrupt executives of my now fiscally-bankrupt hometown hospital (in Asheboro, North Carolina) railroaded me out of town . . . after I intervened in a nursery case being...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 12, 2020 Category: American Health Tags: Alan Levine Ballad Health Cooperative Agreement COPA ETSU Medical Whistle-blower Pediatric Hospitalist Ralph Northam Randolph Hospital Tennessee Department of Health Virginia Department of Health Source Type: blogs

Proposed FDA Guidance on Financial Disclosure and the Physician Payment Sunshine Regulations – Divergent Paths and Duplicated Efforts
Conclusion  The increased regulation and requirements to disclose FCOIs creates a tremendous burden for researchers and institutions that are repetitive, overlapping but not-identical, and time-consuming.  Nevertheless, institutions that receive PHS funding can manage FCOIs in a number of ways: (1) public disclosure of the FCOI (e.g., when presenting or publishing the research); (2) disclosure of the FCOI directly to human participants; (3) appointment of an independent monitor capable of taking measures to protect the design, conduct, and reporting of the research against bias resulting from the FCOI; (4) modification ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Imaginary Squabbles Part 4: Krugman and DeLong on the Top 1 Percent
Alan Reynolds In End This Depression Now! (pages 77-78) Paul Krugman offers the strangest arguments I have seen.   The story opens with familiar fulminations about the “top 1 percent” (those earning more than $366,623 in 2011).  As he put it in a 2011 column, “income inequality in America really is about oligarchs versus everyone else.” “Incomes of the rich,” his book claims, “are at the heart of what has been happening to America’s economy and society.”  Yet it apparently requires great bravery to even dare to mention “the rising incomes” of the top 1 percent or top 0.1 percent: ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 27, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Immigration Illusions Part One: “Average Wages” Severely Muddled
Alan Reynolds The Senate immigration bill would ease quotas on legal immigration (particularly for highly-skilled and farm workers), and also allow those now here unlawfully to apply for a green card after ten years if they pay a fine and back taxes.  In an effort to defend our current tight but leaky immigration quotas, a few legislators and commentators seized on the first half of a sentence in the Congressional Budget Office report on this bill:  “CBO’s central estimates also show that average wages for the entire labor force would be 0.1 percent lower in 2023… under the legislation than under curre...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 1, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Escalating Oil Prices and Fed Funds Rates Preceded Every Recession Since 1957
Alan ReynoldsIn 1997, Former Federal Reserve ChairmanBen Bernanke, while still an academic, wrote a famous historical study for the Brookings Institution: “Systematic Monetary Policy and the Effects of Oil Price Shocks” with Mark Gertler and Mark Watson.It began by documenting that “essentially all the U.S. recessions of the past thirty years have been preceded by both oil price increases and a tightening of monetary policy. ” So here we are again tightening monetary policy at a time of unaffordable oil price increases.In fact, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell argues the Fed must be more aggressive about r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Some experiences of life at Imperial College London. An external inquiry is needed after the death of Stefan Grimm
Conclusions The policies adopted by Imperial College have harmed Imperial’s reputation throughout the world. Worse still, they have tainted the reputation of all UK universities. They have contributed to the corruption of science. and they have, in all probability, killed a successful man, I hope that Alice Gast (president), James Stirling (provost). Dermot Kelleher (Dean, now vice president), and Martin Wilkins (who was left to weild the knife) have a good Christmas. If I were in their shoes, I’d feel so guilty that I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. They should spend Christmas reading Peter Lawrence&...
Source: DC's goodscience - December 23, 2014 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia Imperial Alice Gast assessment badscience Dermot Kelleher James Stirling Martin Wilkins Quality assessment Universities vice-chancellors Source Type: blogs

Mindfulness and Sleep: Advice from Experts
This article is Part Three in a series, click to read Part One and Part Two. I am just a little bit obsessed with sleep. My own, my children’s and… well… even yours really. Of course I am not alone in that. There are many books, websites, organizations and careers built around getting better sleep! When you are a new mother, the level of sleep deprivation you experience can be a shock, unlike any kind of tiredness you have ever felt before. It can undermine your health and well-being very quickly, and clearly has flow on effects on your enjoyment of motherhood and your child’s well-being. I used to joke af...
Source: World of Psychology - December 4, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kellie Edwards Tags: Interview LifeHelper Mindfulness Psychology Sleep Stress Behavioral Sleep Medicine moodiness Sleep Deprivation Source Type: blogs

Let ' s Talk About Hospitals And Rural Healthcare (Particularly Mother-Baby Care): My Letter To The NC Government Commission/NC State Treasurer In Support Of Randolph County ' s Application For A Loan To Save Randolph Health
Author ' s Note:  The lawyers have a saying, " Res Ipsa Loquitur " " .  Translated from Latin, it means, " The thing speaks for itself " .  This is the text of the letter I sent to theNC Local Government Commission (embellished with a few links and additional comments in red) . . .in support of the state of North Carolina granting a loan to Randolph County (via the NC Rural Healthcare Stabilization Act) . . . for purposes of assisting in the " rescue " of Asheboro ' s Randolph Health - in a bankruptcy Court-approved buy-out of Randolph ' s assets by American Healthcare Systems, LLC.On May 4th, afte...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 7, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: Asheboro Atrium Health Bankruptcy Cone Health Duke Lifepoint LGC Medical Whistle-blower Mother-Baby Care NC Rural Heatlh NCDHHS Non-profit Randolph Health UNC Health Wake Forest Baptist Source Type: blogs

How Institutional Conflicts of Interest Exacerbate the Anechoic Effect - the Example of ASCO Fearing "Biting the Hand that Feeds You"
As we recently discussed (here, here, here and here), in May, 2015, the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably the world's foremost medical journal, published an editorial and a three-part commentary arguing that current concerns about the effects of financial conflicts of interest (COI) on health care are overblown(1-4).  On June 1, the Wall Street Journal published a report on the 2015 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) that provided a vivid example of why these concerns should not be dismissed.Questioning Drug Prices at the ASCO MeetingThe main issue in the article was:In a sign of growi...
Source: Health Care Renewal - June 26, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: American Society of Clinical Oncology anechoic effect conflicts of interest health care prices institutional conflicts of interest medical societies You heard it here first Source Type: blogs

An open letter to Psychological Medicine, again!
In conclusion, noted Wilshire et al., “the claim that patients can recover as a result of CBT and GET is not justified by the data, and is highly misleading to clinicians and patients considering these treatments.” In short, the PACE trial had null results for recovery, according to the protocol definition selected by the authors themselves. Besides the inflated recovery results reported in Psychological Medicine, the study suffered from a host of other problems, including the following: *In a paradox, the revised recovery thresholds for physical function and fatigue–two of the four recovery measures–were so lax ...
Source: virology blog - March 23, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Commentary Information adaptive pacing therapy CFS chronic fatigue syndrome clinical trial cognitive behavior therapy Dave Tuller exercise graded exercise therapy mecfs myalgic encephalomyelitis outcome PACE trial recovery Source Type: blogs

The AmWell – Avizia Merger and the Evolution of Telehealth
By ALAN PITT Last week Avizia, where I’ve been the Chief Medical Officer since 2014, was acquired by American Well (AmWell). From my perspective, the merger made perfect sense. Avizia has been focused on chronically and acutely ill patients—those more directly attached to a hospital system. AmWell, on the other hand, has been the dominant solution for community-based care; it’s an online consultation service for folks who might otherwise have gone to an urgent care for problems like fever, headache, or a sore throat. Combining these entities provides a solution that spans the spectrum of care, which aligns with the n...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health 2.0 American Well Avizia Telehealth Source Type: blogs

The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
 September 08, 2022 Edition-----In the US we are seeing the outcomes of Climate Change really of and running with droughts and fires etc. Biden amped up the partisan divide with a fiery anti-Republican speech!In Russia the last leader of Soviet Russia died.In the UK we have a new PM while in Europe the energy crisis is just getting worse.In OZ we have survived the Jobs and Skills Summit with 36 prearranged outcomes. Stage management +++ in action. The GP crisis is not being addressed fully and worries regarding the Global Economy - esp. China - worsen.-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/educati...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Link feast
In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. Love this - "Neuroscience may be sexier than psychology right now, and it certainly has a lot more money and celebrity. But they really cannot get along without each other." Alison Gopnik in the Wall Street Journal. 2. New Scientist has started a new column written by people with "mysterious neurological conditions". The first is by Heather Sellers who has a severe form of prosopagnosia (AKA face blindness). 3. There's been lots of coverage this last week about NIMH director Thomas R. Insel's announcement that his organisation - the wo...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

The Gendered Situation at Harvard Law School – Part I
The Harvard Crimson‘s Dev Patel has an outstanding series of articles this week on gender inequality at Harvard Law School. Here are some excerpts from the first article, titled “Once Home to Kagan and Warren, HLS Faculty Still Only 20 Percent Female” in the series. Just 20 percent of U.S. senators are female. Women make up a mere 21.6 percent of the lawyers who serve as general counsels to Fortune 500 companies. Only three of the nine Supreme Court Justices are women. But these figures are still higher than the proportion of women within the ranks of the Harvard Law School faculty. At Elizabeth Warren an...
Source: The Situationist - May 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Distribution Education History Law Source Type: blogs

The Gendered Situation at Harvard Law School – Part II
The Harvard Crimson‘s Dev Patel has an outstanding series of articles last week on gender inequality at Harvard Law School. Here are some excerpts from the second article, titled “In HLS Classes, Women Fall Behind” in the series. Among the top students in their graduating classes, men and women entering Harvard Law School earn similar undergraduate grades and LSAT scores. But as soon as students step into Wasserstein Hall, a dramatic gender disparity emerges. Indicators suggest that female students participate less and perform worse than their male counterparts over the course of their three years at the ...
Source: The Situationist - May 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Distribution Education History Law Source Type: blogs