American Exceptionalism
Shorter Lives, Poorer Outcomes, Highest Costs
Among developed nations the U.S.A scores dead last in many key health measures, including life expectancy, preventable hospital admissions, postoperative complications, and maternal mortality. However, the U.S.A scores highest in cost of care.
Shorter Lives, Poorer Outcomes, Highest Costs
Among developed nations the U.S.A scores dead last in many key health measures, including life expectancy, preventable hospital admissions, postoperative complications, and maternal mortality. However, the U.S.A scores highest in cost of care.
Owned
By China Americans may be surprised at what we think are really American companies are actually owned or run by Chinese investment conglomerates. |
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Trumping Political Ideology
Middle East Quality Initiatives Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Yemen Cooperating through New Technology, Devices, and Evidence-based Medicine. |
Joe Biden’s Mental Fitness
A Question Worth Asking This is a man who has butchered the Declaration of Independence, confused his wife and sister, and vowed to beat himself during the same election cycle. |
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Florence Nightingale’s Message
Wash Your Hands Florence Nightingale, The Lady with the Lamp, is the nursing pioneer who told use to wash hands. If she was here today, she would be quite disappointed over lack of hand hygiene around the globe. |
Unprecedented Times
Heeding the Call We remind ourselves that even during these times of “celebration,” our journey is not about us, rather it remains about patients and the health of the population. |
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What If Joe Biden Is Medically Unfit For Office?
What if the Democrats selected a Man whose Health is Collapsing? Grant for purposes of argument that President Donald Trump is unfit on grounds of character and competence if not gingerly ramp-walking, Americans should not vote for Biden because it’s the only way to get rid of Trump. |
Gaffe Machine
Biden's Dementia No candidate has consistently shown the symptoms of mental decline before election as Biden. The sad thing about dementia is that it is always progressing, never reversing. |
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Memories
Is He Losing It? It is recognized that one's capacity to memorize, retain new information, and remember names grows less and less as one ages, especially in those individuals over 70. |
Physician, Heal Thyself
Effects of Burnout on Career and Care Physicians' burnout is common with up to 76%, reporting alarming levels of professional and personal distress. |
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Aging And Dementia
Age Remains the Most Important Risk Factor Dementia incidence is growing at an impressive rate worldwide, mostly affecting old age subjects. |
Medicine’s Glass Ceiling
Hindering Healthcare Improvement Wasting half our genetic pool of intelligence, creativity and experience will only hinder the improvement of health care for all, a loss that medicine simply can't afford. |
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10 Medicare for all Myths
What’s Wrong About Government Healthcare? Most of the guys trying to control our healthcare are lawyers, politicians, and many of the lawyers that never practiced law or were successful at it or anything other than campaigning for office. |
Fjording Ahead
Norwegian Integrated Healthcare Interaction between hospitals and primary care in Norway is based on care should be provided at the lowest appropriate level. |
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Catholic Healthcare
The ACLU's War On Faith So it's time to say "enough." In the United States, we all are free to practice our religion as we see fit. |
Migrant Workers & Healthcare
Fact & Fiction The heavy reliance on temporary foreign workers has resulted in a chronic dependency. Over 70% of farm crop workers in the US are Mexicans; more than 50% of these are unauthorized to work in the US. |
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Swiss Watch
Switzerland's Precision Healthcare The Swiss healthcare system is characterized by its decentralized structure and high degree of local autonomy. |
Amish Healthcare
Lessons for the Rest of US For the Amish, the biggest and most complicated cultural intersection is the modern healthcare system. Amish people often advocate for more freedom in deciding when to go to a hospital, how to get there, and what interventions will be used. |
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The Invisibles
Unpaid Caregivers of the Elderly Caregivers manage medications, medical appointments, and coordinate personal care. |
Latin America's Plight
Socialist Healthcare Since the 1990s, all universal healthcare systems in the region ‒ Cuba, Brazil and Costa Rica ‒ suffered from shortages of resources, a deterioration of public services and providers, and a growing presence of the private sector in social policies. |
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Toyota Production System
Making Healthcare Lean To implement lean in healthcare, the patient has to be the center of the initiative, while time and comfort should be added as key performance measures in the system. |