The Demise of the Dynamic Duo

Exploring the economic consequences of the structural headwinds facing immigration and health care

Bancreek Capital Advisors
Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798

Image via Wikipedia The ink was barely dry on the PPACA when the first of many lawsuits to block the mandated health insurance provisions of the law was filed in a Florida District Court. The pleadings, in part, read - The Constitution nowhere authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly [...]

Forbes
A Life-Saving Checklist

Peter Pronovost is hardly the first person in medicine to use a checklist. But he is among the first to recognize its power to transform intensive care. Atul Gawande explains.

The New Yorker
What the Murder of the UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Means to America

Brian Thompson was fatally shot in Manhattan; some Americans cheered. What does that tell us? Jia Tolentino reports.

The New Yorker

‘Everyone In Gaza is Sick, Injured, Or Both’ – Israel’s 2.1 million Victims (Media Lens)

In a letter to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, shamefully ignored by virtually all ‘mainstream’ media outlets, 30 qualified, UK-based health workers described the full extent of the catastrophe.

https://www.medialens.org/2024/everyone-in-gaza-is-sick-injured-or-both-israels-2-1-million-victims/

Quotes: https://diasp.nl/posts/4197963

#palestine #palestinians #israel #occupied_territories #gaza #war #war_crimes #civilian_casualties #infrastructure #health_care #human_rights

‘Everyone In Gaza is Sick, Injured, Or Both' – Israel’s 2.1 million Victims

On 20 July 1982, an IRA bomb exploded beneath a bandstand on which 30 military bandsmen of the 1st Battalion,

Media Lens
Kaiser took five months to disclose huge data leak

Giant health-care provider discovered breach last fall.

San Francisco Examiner

In this work, we propose a novel Ultrasound Embodied Intelligence system that equips ultrasound robots with an LLM and domain knowledge, thereby improving the efficiency of ultrasound robots. Specifically, we first design an ultrasound operation knowledge database and devise a dynamic ultrasound scanning strategy through prompt engineering.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00461
#NLP #health_care

Buprenorphine and the Opioid Crisis: A Primer for Congress
(2018) Duff, Johnathan H.
Url: https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/index.html
#my_bibtex #USA #buprenorphine #health_care #opioid_epidemic
Congressional Research Service Reports - Miscellaneous Topics

An unofficial collection of CRS reports on national security