In Season 2 Episode 3 Adam examines how arbitrarily inflated hospital costs have contributed to the confusion in healthcare. His theory includes a collaboration of the insurance companies and hospitals to avoid transparency of pricing. Links to the video on truTV. Sources “Oh, American health care isn’t the best in the world. But despite that… Read More
This article takes an interesting look at whether the “reputation” of your medical school affects your propensity to write opiate prescriptions. This paper published July 7, 2017 by economics professors at Princeton University (seems like some Harvard bias), determined that physicians who studied at “lower-ranked” medical schools prescribe nearly three times as many opioids per… Read More
This is a really interesting article in the August 2017 issue of Techniques for Track and Cross Country that discusses racing strategy and that a large percentage of elite distance runners do not execute an optimal racing strategy. This article looks at racing splits and suggests amongst other things to give splits early possibly at… Read More
This is from an advocacy group. RNs across the United States are actively working with CNA/NNU to win their own mandated direct-care RN-to-patient staffing ratios. RNs in other countries have also been fighting to win RN-to-patient staffing ratios to improve conditions for their patients. Safe RN-to-patient staffing ratios have been proven to save lives, yet… Read More
According to an August 3, 2017 CNN report by Caitlin Ostroff and Ciara Bri’d Frisbie, Sixteen percent of mainland America is 30 miles or more from a hospital. The lack of adequate financing of rural hospitals may make this worse. Medicaid cuts could close even more rural hospitals This can especially effect trauma, cardiac neurological… Read More
According to an article in Modern Healthcare, CMS announced in August 2017 that they will give inpatient psychiatric facilities a modest 1% Medicaid reimbursement increase in 2018 of $45 million. Medicare previously announced they would receive a $100 million increase in Medicare reimbursement in 2018 Excerpts include: The agency made the change via a notice… Read More
This CDC link and publication shows opiate prescribing rates by county and state. Interesting to see the discrepancies from county to county and state to state. Here are the highlights of the data After a steady increase in the overall national opioid prescribing rate from 2006, the total number of prescriptions dispensed peaked in 2012… Read More
Many people don’t realize that cherry and peach pits, apple seeds and other fruit seeds contain cyanide and it is possible to suffer cyanide poisoning after consuming cherry pits. If you crack open at little as two or three cherry pits and eat the substance inside, you can develop cyanide poisoning. The contents of the… Read More
