Doctor: So much health care not healthy http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2015/05/26/doc-regions-health-spending-whack/27959139/
Cincinnati, you're not getting a lot of value for your health care spending. Billboards point to the reason.
A story about nurse practitioners in the rural West.
Review: ‘The Farewell Party’ Finds Laughs in Euthanasia - NYTimes.com
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Map Reveals The Distinctive Cause Of Death In Each Statehttp://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/05/20/408011861/map-reveals-the-distinctive-cause-of-death-in-each-state
Debating the Complications Involved in Saving Preemies - NYTimes.com
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Rise in Suicide by Black Children Surprises Researchers - NYTimes.com
Review: In ‘Do No Harm,’ a Brain Surgeon Tells All - NYTimes.com
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Antibiotics Resurface as Alternative to Removing Appendix - NYTimes.com
The Case for Black Doctors - NYTimes.com
The Last Day of Her Life - NYTimes.com
When Sandy Bem found out she had Alzheimer’s, she resolved that before the disease stole her mind, she would kill herself. The question was, when?
Needle Exchanges: helps stop spread of disease or encourages drug use?
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Ethics in research
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/business/data-disclosure-leads-researchers-to-end-study-of-obesity-drug.html?referrer=
I agree with the needle exchange program i do think it will help keeping the population healther even though the drug useers need to STOP. How is another question? Education I think is the best path to try.
ReplyDeleteThe Last Day has left me sad and angry. My mother lived with Alzheimer's for about 9 years. My father devoted his last years to caring for her. From putting sticky notes on the walls pointing to the bathroom, to putting out clothes that he knew she liked when she would wear whatever we put on her. She always looked well dressed and he would wear plaid and stripes! He used to cook and ask some of the kids to come over because she ate better with a crowd around the table. I know we don't want others, especially those we love to see us decline mentally or physically. By allowing my father to care for her, she gave him a gift. Even when she no longer knew his name, she would search him out in a crowded room and ask if she could sit near him. That same night, she asked him if she could go home with him. He grinned and said "you better, you married me". She just smiled. They were probably 86 yrs old. Had she ended her life, that gift (showing us what true love REALLY is) to all of us (my family) would have gone ungiven.
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