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8 votes
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How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public
8 votes -
Joe Biden officials to keep private the names of US hospitals where patients contracted Covid
4 votes -
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
61 votes -
Judge blocks Texas investigating families of trans youth
18 votes -
How Ben got his penis
15 votes -
A day in the life of a music festival medic
5 votes -
Banning abortions will not stop abortions
9 votes -
A dangerous place to be Latino
3 votes -
Canada eliminates mandatory waiting period for gay men to donate blood
17 votes -
Canada will soon offer doctor-assisted death to the mentally ill. Who should be eligible?
11 votes -
The unvaccinated NHS workers facing the sack in the UK
11 votes -
Do Ask, Tell, and Show: Contextual Factors Affecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Disclosure for Sexual and Gender Minority People
10 votes -
Fighters and Failure: Medical words that hurt
2 votes -
Always remember - The Therac 25 incident
17 votes -
Kidney failure, emergency rooms and medical debt: The unseen costs of food poisoning
3 votes -
Belgium wants to make it easier for gay men to donate blood
10 votes -
California’s overflowing coffers hand Newsom ‘every politician’s dream’
8 votes -
Real-time alerting system for COVID-19 and other stress events using wearable data
6 votes -
Why US healthcare workers are quitting in droves: About one in five have left medicine since the pandemic started
12 votes -
California hospitals brace for ‘Striketober’ amid COVID staffing shortages
5 votes -
Women were the unseen healthcare providers of the Middle Ages
7 votes -
Henrietta Lacks estate sues company using her ‘stolen’ cells
12 votes -
Two disbarred lawyers sued a Texas doctor who performed an abortion. Flustered ‘pro-lifers’ are backpedaling
12 votes -
Their baby died in the hospital. Then came the $257,000 bill.
17 votes -
A doctor who defied Texas' abortion law is sued, launching a legality test of the ban
20 votes -
Extended reality is radically changing the world of medicine
14 votes -
Most private insurers are no longer waiving cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatment
16 votes -
Op-Ed: As a doctor in a COVID unit, I'm running out of compassion for the unvaccinated. Get the shot
35 votes -
Seeking Trans liberation through birthwork
5 votes -
Germany fears thousands got saline, not vaccine from nurse
21 votes -
Why right to repair matters – according to a farmer, a medical worker, a computer store owner
17 votes -
‘I’m sorry, but it’s too late’: Alabama doctor on treating unvaccinated, dying COVID patients
29 votes -
PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, must now be totally free under almost all US insurance plans
16 votes -
My slightly unreal pandemic pregnancy
8 votes -
Minority Stress, Structural Stigma, and Physical Health Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals: Examining the Relative Strength of the Relationships
6 votes -
Vicious doctors and cruel diseases in 18th-Century Jamaica
3 votes -
Fire in the Blood (2013 documentary)
3 votes -
Should Tildes have rules for healthcare advice?
Sometimes Tildes users give people healthcare advice. Sometimes that advice disagrees with the advice already given by a qualified registered healthcare professional. That might be okay if the...
Sometimes Tildes users give people healthcare advice. Sometimes that advice disagrees with the advice already given by a qualified registered healthcare professional. That might be okay if the tildes advice was compliant with national guidance, but sometimes it isn't. Sometimes it's bad, dangerous, advice.
Should Tildes have rules about this?
16 votes -
An English hospital reports a surge in cases
5 votes -
Legislation to criminalise gender affirming care for trans children is dangerous
12 votes -
Insurers in Washington state must cover transgender health care under new bill
20 votes -
California could be the first state to allow adults to add parents to health care plans
8 votes -
The broken front line: What lasting impact will the pandemic have on America's first responders?
7 votes -
Arkansas Governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth
23 votes -
Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 years old implies many patients wait for Medicare to kick in before they seek care
18 votes -
The Global Transgender Resources Registry
10 votes -
Spain passes law allowing euthanasia
23 votes -
Thinking about death
Up until recently my girlfriend’s grandmother had a relatively good life. She’s taken care of, had some interesting allucinations, slept most of the day and had funny interactions with her...
Up until recently my girlfriend’s grandmother had a relatively good life. She’s taken care of, had some interesting allucinations, slept most of the day and had funny interactions with her grandaughter, some of which ended up on Instagram.
In recent weeks, she started refusing food and spent days at the hospital. The sudden lost in autonomy made her hostile. It’s a struggle to change her diapers. The situation was made worse by the feeding tube up her nose, which she attempts to remove non-stop, and can only be replaced at the hospital. We had to restrain her arm. That is no way to live.
She's made it very clear she does not want to be in this world any longer. Today I heard a hundred year old lady scream, multiple times: "just let me die!".
I don't know what to make of it.
Edit: I'd like to thank everyone's answers. I wasn't really looking for a solution since the legal situation in my country does not allow for any wiggle room. But it is always nice to read the smart people of Tildes passionately explore their ideas, sharing knowledge with compassion. Sometimes it is enough to feel less alone. Thank you and good night.
15 votes -
Irish children's hospital assured of indemnity over puberty blockers
9 votes