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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

A day in the hospital in the USA

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James Medlock ( @jdcmedlock ) 12/17/19, 1:00 PM Average out-of-pocket spending for a day in the hospital US: $1,013 A...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Terminally Ill at 25 and Fighting Fake News on Vaccines

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I n 2015, an anti-vaccination campaign in Ireland caused a sudden fall in the uptake of the HPV vaccine. Then Laura Brennan got involved. ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

The difference between ethics and morality

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Ethics is a more inclusive matter than morality; it concerns character whereas morality concerns actions. Our actions will mainly of course ...
Monday, December 9, 2019

Notable books

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Among the 100 Notable Books of 2019 (as selected by the NYTimes )... Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom By  ...
Sunday, December 8, 2019

George Church

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60 Minutes ( @60Minutes ) 12/8/19, 10:28 AM “So you went from George’s skin cells, turned those into stem cells, and ...

The weird world of medical billing.

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Where the Frauds Are All Legal Much of what we accept as legal in medical billing would be regarded as fraud in any other sector. I have bee...
Saturday, December 7, 2019

Can Biology Class Reduce Racism?

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COLORADO SPRINGS — Biology textbooks used in American high schools do not go near the sensitive question of whether genetics can explain why...
Monday, December 2, 2019

Bioethics, Spring 2020

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Returning to MTSU, January 2020- PHIL 3345, TTh 4:20-5:45 pm, Peck Hall 305 Supporting the philosophical study of bioethics, biome...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Animals' consciousness

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NYT Health ( @NYTHealth ) 10/22/19, 9:37 PM Carl Safina has long argued that animals have consciousness and emotional...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Don't get sick here

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I say a lot in this @NewYorker interview but this is the part on health care. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/oFM9snF08e — rob delaney (@robdelaney)...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?

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Letting Go Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on impro...
Friday, August 30, 2019

The Message of Measles (to anti-vaxxers)

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As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the U.S. in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as th...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Proactive probiotics

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"You should start taking probiotics now, before we discover that they don't make a difference." NYker
Monday, August 12, 2019

Should Patients Be Allowed to Choose — or Refuse — Doctors by Race or Gender?

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By Kwame Anthony Appiah Aug. 6, 2019 I work for a public medical system, and we have an ethics seminar each month. The last one featured ...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

The Surfer’s Secret to Happiness

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They don’t seem to regret all that time they don’t spend actually riding waves. By Ellis Avery Ms. Avery was a writer. She died in Februar...
Monday, July 29, 2019

It’s Not Just a Chemical Imbalance

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Thinking of my mental illness as preordained missed many of the causes of — and solutions to — my emotional suffering. By Kelli María Korduc...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Medical intelligence-Sam Harris & Eric Topol

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New Podcast Medical Intelligence:  A Conversation with Eric Topol In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speak...

Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines

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Ethan Lindenberger never got vaccinated as a kid. So one day, he went on Reddit and asked a simple question: "Where do I go to...