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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 216
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogJust when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 216. Question 1Where was this photo taken and what is the significance of this “Trauma Room 1”? By Jpotter1138 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27892379+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answerexpand(document.getElementB...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five aspirin Baxter burns Charles Frederic Gerhardt Charles Frederick morris saint Charles Rufus Baxter Jack Ruby JFK John Connally john f kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald Lewis Macken occam's razor parkland formula Source Type: blogs

Brookings vs Yelp and E-Patients: They’re All Wrong, but Mostly Brookings
By ADAMS DUDLEY, MD Can I fool you with the picture above? Apparently, some people think so. I’m a Twitter newbie, but I’ve already discovered that sometimes you can tweet what you think is a helpful piece of data, then find yourself suddenly caught up in an explosive controversy.  When it’s the Brookings Institute and US News and World Report on one side and passionate e-patients on the other, a research tweep is liable to feel like a nerdy accountant who wandered into the OK Corral at high noon with neither Kevlar nor a gun. This happened to me when Niam Yaraghi of Brookings posted on the US News blog and the Bro...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Uncategorized Adams Dudley Source Type: blogs

Smoking v. Obesity: The Economics Of Prevention And Its Dependence On Treatment
In 2012, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an in-depth study of the health and budgetary effects of raising the excise tax on cigarettes. We commented on this study in our blog about the complex economics of disease prevention and longevity. CBO has since turned its attention to obesity and recently released a list of issues needing resolution in order for CBO to estimate the effects of federal policies impacting obesity. In this Health Affairs Blog post, we summarize research we have done, under a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), on the value of reductions in cigarette smoking and obesity...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 22, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Charles Roehrig and George Miller Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Health Policy Lab Long-term Services and Supports Population Health Public Health Quality culture of health Obesity Smoking Source Type: blogs

John Stossel Discovers Health Care Dysfunction, Blames it on "Socialists" - Like Maurice Greenberg (AIG), John Thain (Merrill Lynch), Sanford Weill (Citigroup), and David H Koch?
In conclusion, I am glad that some of the problems in the dysfunctional US health care system are getting more public attention.  However, now we need to calmly and rationally consider what is causing them and what to do about them without the blinders of ideology or vested interests.  IMHO, true US health care reform would put the operation of US health care organizations more in the hands of people who have knowledge and experience in health care, and are willing to be accountable to support health care professionals' values.  Furthermore, oversight and stewardship of these organizations should represent t...
Source: Health Care Renewal - April 24, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: boards of trustees bureaucracy finance generic managers managerialism New York - Presbyterian Hospital Source Type: blogs

John Stossel Discovers Health Care Dysfunction, Blames it on " Socialists " - Like Maurice Greenberg (AIG), John Thain (Merrill Lynch), Sanford Weill (Citigroup), and David H Koch?
In conclusion, I am glad that some of the problems in the dysfunctional US health care system are getting more public attention.   However, now we need to calmly and rationally consider what is causing them and what to do about them without the blinders of ideology or vested interests.   IMHO, true US health care reform would put the operation of US health care organizations more in the hands of people who have knowledge and experience in health care, and are willing to be accountable to support health care professionals ' values.   Furthermore, oversight and stewardship of these organizations should repres...
Source: Health Care Renewal - April 24, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: boards of trustees bureaucracy finance generic managers managerialism New York - Presbyterian Hospital Source Type: blogs

Study Demonstrates Logistical Challenges and Potentially Harmful Results in Lung Cancer Screenings
Performing Lung cancer screening on high-risk patients with low-dose computed tomography (CT) presents logistical challenges and potentially harmful results, says a new study from the Lung Cancer Screening Demonstration Project.Researchers surveyed more than 93,000 primary care patients for lung cancer screening criteria at eight Veterans Health Administration facilities across the country. Out of that group, 2,106 were between the ages of 55 and 80 years-old, current or former heavy smokers, and had received lung cancer screening between July 2014 and June 2015. Out of those patients, 1,257 (59.7 percent) had nodules, and...
Source: radRounds - February 11, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

RIP Andrea Rich
I am saddened to report that my dear friend Andrea Millen Rich  died this morning at her home in Philadelphia at the age of 79 after a 19-year battle with lung cancer. She was, among many other things, the proprietor of Laissez Faire Books and the wife for 41 years of Howard Rich, the Cato Institute’s longest-serving Board member.For more than 40 years Andrea was at the center of the libertarian movement, a mentor, counselor, friend, supporter, facilitator, networker, and gracious hostess to hundreds of freedom lovers – young, old, well-known, obscure, successful, down-on-their-luck, didn’t matter. She was the firs...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 1, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs

Artificial Intelligence vs. Tuberculosis, Part 1
By SAURABH JHA, MD Slumdog TB No one knows who gave Rahul Roy tuberculosis. Roy’s charmed life as a successful trader involved traveling in his Mercedes C class between his apartment on the plush Nepean Sea Road in South Mumbai and offices in Bombay Stock Exchange. He cared little for Mumbai’s weather. He seldom rolled down his car windows – his ambient atmosphere, optimized for his comfort, rarely changed. Historically TB, or “consumption” as it was known, was a Bohemian malady; the chronic suffering produced a rhapsody which produced fine art. TB was fashionable in Victorian Britain, in part, because c...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech Saurabh Jha TB tuberculosis Source Type: blogs