#3Goodthings (Global Brain Health Institute @ #UCSF)
1. Bruce Miller, UCSF #neurologist, & I read from our memoir, took ?s from #GBHI fellows, & signed copies.
2. Met w/#GBHI fellows, all focused on brain health. Heard about extraordinary work training primary care #physicians in #Ghana to recognize #MCI; more efficient #MCI screening in #Uganda; connect #psychiatrists & neurologists in #Guatemala.
3. Talked w/the GBHI fellows about science & the #humanities. Better together!
"The diagnosis Dr. N entered—possible pneumonia—provided justification, but it was not the reason she admitted him. She felt responsible for the patient’s future, so she made up a diagnosis to orchestrate an admission. Dr. N figured that immigration agents could not simply wait in the hallway. She hoped they would leave.
They did."
https://slate.com/technology/2026/01/ice-hospitals-ohio-law-medicine.html
#PublicHealth #hospitals #physicians #bioethics #morality #MoralInjury #immigrant #immigration #ICE #detention
"On the heels of a measles outbreak in Texas that killed two unvaccinated children, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he has opened an investigation into pediatricians who vaccinate because, he claims, they receive illegal financial incentives to do so."
#PublicHealth #healthcare #vaccines #immunizations #physicians #pediatrics #texas
"For years, hospitals, schools and churches had been off-limits for immigration enforcement.
But a year ago, the Trump administration announced that federal immigration agencies could now make arrests in those facilities, ending a policy that had been in effect since 2011."
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-minneapolis-trump-crackdown-7ed3b62246d19ff4e6c5be8813415a83
#healthcare #hospitals #physicians #nurses #immigration #ICE #DHS #minnesota
Doctors say immigrant patients are missing key medical appointments, afraid to come to medical clinics amid the Trump administration’s sweeping Minnesota immigration crackdown. They say that has resulted in everything from a diabetic scared to pick up insulin to a patient with a treatable wound that festered and required a trip to the intensive care unit. There are also the hospital staffers – from Latin America, Somalia, Myanmar and elsewhere – too frightened to come to work. At a state Capitol news conference in St. Paul on Tuesday, doctor after doctor told of patients suffering amid the clampdown. Dr. Roli Dwivedi, immediate past president of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians, says: “Our places of healing are under siege.”
Hospitals face a prisoner’s dilemma
In 2026, Medtronic plans to launch a new robot to compete with a legacy market leader. This new…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #hospitals #Physicians #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/345120/
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist.... This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.
-- W. H. Auden
But the #Trump admin has said it wants more #veterans to seek treatment outside the government system. Political appointees at #VA & their allies have also said they favor a leaner #healthcare workforce because they think #physicians & other #health care providers could be more productive, said one former appointee who is close to the Trump team.
#Republicans #military #Veterans #VeteransAffairs #service #ServiceMembers #medical #betrayal #USpol #law
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