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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

TLC Todd-versations: Todd Linsky in Conversation with Dr. Alan Greene
Todd Linsky, a food and organic industry veteran, hosts the podcast Todd-versations. He interviews guests from around the globe — influencers, leaders, and innovators in their respective fields. In this episode, Todd and Dr. Greene discuss the pediatric roots of longevity, the importance of nutrition in health, Dr. Greene’s reasons for creating DrGreene.com, his next projects, and a whole host of side topics. Transcript of Todd-versation Podcast with Todd Linsky and Dr. Greene 0:00 this conversation is brought to you in part by Calavo Growers the family of fresh! 0:19 hey there everybody good ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - October 6, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Source Type: blogs

Keeping Kids Healthy in the Age of Coronavirus: Dr. Greene on The People ’ s Pharmacy
Transcript [00:00:00] Joe Graedon: I’m Joe Graedon. [00:00:01] Terry Graedon: And I’m Terry Graedon. Welcome to this podcast of the People’s Pharmacy. [00:00:06] Joe Graedon: You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at PeoplesPharmacy.com.  [00:00:14] How’s your family holding up during the coronavirus pandemic? Isolation can be especially challenging for children. [00:00:22] This is the People’s Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graedon. [00:00:33] Terry Graedon:  Children appear less susceptible than older adults to serious complications of COVID-19...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 21, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog COVID COVID-19 Viral Infection Source Type: blogs

Keeping Kids Healthy in the Age of Coronavirus: Dr. Greene on The People s Pharmacy
Transcript [00:00:00] Joe Graedon: I’m Joe Graedon. [00:00:01] Terry Graedon: And I’m Terry Graedon. Welcome to this podcast of the People’s Pharmacy. [00:00:06] Joe Graedon: You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at PeoplesPharmacy.com.  [00:00:14] How’s your family holding up during the coronavirus pandemic? Isolation can be especially challenging for children. [00:00:22] This is the People’s Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graedon. [00:00:33] Terry Graedon:  Children appear less susceptible than older adults to serious complications of COVID-19...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 21, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog COVID COVID-19 Viral Infection Source Type: blogs

Distinguishing Home ‐​Grown Inflation from Global Inflation
Alan ReynoldsEach country imagines inflation to be anational problem to be entirely blamed on national fiscal authorities or on each nation ' s central bank. Yet March CPI inflation averaged 8.8% for all 38 countries in theOECD, and 7.8% for the 27 EU countries.Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, in theFRBSF Economic Letter, ask a narrower question: "Why is U.S. Inflation Higher Than in Other Countries?"  They first begin by acknowledging that there have been some uniquely huge global events driving world pricesdownin 2020 (COVID-19 lockdowns causing long-term loss of productive capacity) and other po...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

The Misleading Arithmetic of COVID-19 Death Rates
Alan ReynoldsAssuming the number of people who have reportedly died from COVID-19 is reasonably accurate, then the percentage of infected people who die from the disease (the death rate) must surely have beenmuch lower than the 2 –3% estimates commonly reported. That is because the number of infected people is much larger than the number tested and reported.The triangle graph, from a  February 10 study fromImperial College London, shows that most people infected by COVID-19 are never counted as being infected. That is because, the Imperial College study explains, “the bottom of the pyramid represents the likely larges...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 2, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

How One Model Simulated 2.2 Million U.S. Deaths from COVID-19
Alan ReynoldsWhen it came to dealing with an unexpected surge in infections and deaths from SARS-CoV-2 (the virus causing COVID-19 symptoms), federal and state policymakers understandably sought guidance from competing epidemiological computer models. On March 16, a 20-page report from Neil Ferguson ' s team at Imperial College London quickly gathered enormous attention by producing enormous death estimates. Dr. Ferguson had previously publicized almost equallysensational death estimates from mad cow disease, bird flu and swine flu.The New York Times quickly ran the hot news about this new COVID-19 estimate:The report, whi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 21, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

5 takeaways for returning to school
School districts in the United States are in a period of profound uncertainty, which will likely persist throughout the 2020–2021 school year. Many agree that remote teaching in spring 2020 was piecemeal and sub-optimal. Now, despite a stated universal commitment to full-time, in-person, high-caliber education, many states have rising rates of COVID-19, and teachers and parents share deep health concerns. Already we have witnessed a rapid and seismic transition from the beginning of this summer — in June, many schools planned to open full-time for in-person learning — to near-universal adoption of hybrid or remote te...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alan Geller, MPH, RN Tags: Adolescent health Children's Health Coronavirus and COVID-19 Parenting Source Type: blogs

Will Congress Repeat the Worst Blunder of the First “Stimulus” Bill?
Alan ReynoldsA bipartisan Congressional group is eager borrow and spend another $900 billion on a new COVID-19 bill. Yet they appear determined to repeat the most wastefulpolitical stunt of the last “stimulus bill.”On December 17,The Wall Street Journal reported that “the package includes another round of direct payments to households,” which was recently added back into the mix after “The Trump administration [via Treasury Secretary Mnuchin] …proposed sending $600 checks. ”Borrowing money to send everyone a little check may sound clever to myopic politicians. But it is morally indefensible because ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 17, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Has Recent Inflation Been Higher or Lower?
Alan ReynoldsA front ‐​page headline screams “Inflation Is Back at Highest in Over a Decade.” That sounds as if inflation recently came back up to a record peak after a nice period of quiescence. Actually, inflation was twice as high from March to June as it has been since.The lower numbers of the past three months are still bad enough, yet the difference between higher and lower numbers seems worth mentioning. Change seems to mystify and elude TV and newspaper reporters because they discount recent news and keep extolling “The Mystifying Arithmetic of Year ‐​to‐​Year Inflation Estimates. ”Earlier th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Unlike Next Month, the November CPI Was Dominated by Oil
Alan ReynoldsUSA Today headline says, “Inflation rate surges as CPI data shows prices rose 6.8% in November, the fastest spike since 1982. ”That 6.8% figure does not describe what happened this November at all. It measures what happened at some points in time between the brutal pandemic of 2020 (when U.S. deaths from COVID-19 rose from 908 on November 1  to 2,389 by November 30) and the much safer and stronger global economy of November 2021.To find a  record “spike” in November, we must look at monthly data, not 12‐​month changes. The graph highlights monthly changes in three categories:Energy, which has rel...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 10, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Producer Prices for Goods Rise and Fall with Oil Prices
Alan ReynoldsEver since Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell described cyclical or COVID-related elements of inflation as "transitory" (an ambiguous phrase now retired), critics repeatedly seized onyear-to-year changes in price indexes as evidence that inflation was insteadaccelerating every month.As I have noted before, however, the stubborn rise in year-to-year inflation —even when monthly rates slowed in the third quarter—was partly because ofbase effects (prices indexes were often flat or falling in the 2020 pandemic) and particularly because ofcompounding: If we keep adding the same monthly increase to a price i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Real Earnings Should Stop Falling If Energy Prices Stop Rising
Alan ReynoldsIn an interesting newPeterson Institute blog, Jason Furman and Willie Powell write, “Real wages and compensation increased dramatically in the first six months of the pandemic, as prices fell while wages and compensation continued to grow. Since then, however, price growth has been more rapid than wage and compensation growth, and so real wages and compensation have been falling. ”The facts are clear, yet they scream out for clarification. First, evennominalaverage hourly earnings “increased dramatically in the first six months of the pandemic (March‐​August 2020)” while the economy collapsed under...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 31, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

The Fed Doesn ’t Rule the Stock Market
Alan ReynoldsAWall Street Journal editorial ( “Inflation Haunts the Biden Economy”), fears that “one risk is the Fed gets spooked bythe market reaction to its tightening. ” However, the stock market is rarely hyper‐​sensitive to Fed statements or actions for more than a few days.“Stocks Turn Lower AfterFed Announcement” was theJournal ’sJanuary 26 headline, yet the Fed chairman did not actually announce anything much different from what was already expected – namely, phasing‐​out the “Quantitative Easing” routine plus several quarter‐​point increases in the IORB (Interest on Reserve Balance...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 11, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

The Fed ’s Unplanned Soft Landing of 2018–19
Alan ReynoldsFederal Reserve officials spentmonths talking ‐​up their visions of a linear upward path for the overnight federal funds rate on bank reserves, but with few clues about when the increase might stop or why.But markets do not wait for the Fed to act. The policy ‐​making Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) had done nothing until now except to raise the fed funds rate a quarter point in March. Yet they nonetheless managed to double mortgage interest rates and crash the value of bonds and stocks in retirement accounts by simply talking increasingly bold ly about what FOMC members “project” might happ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 4, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs