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Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
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Tired, overworked and underpaid: Why doctors in Europe are going on strike
16 votes -
The hidden system of legal kickbacks shaping the US prescription drug market
10 votes -
How to regulate AI? Bioethicist David Magnus on medicine’s critical moment
4 votes -
Poland's crusade against abortion investigates miscarriages, tests blood for evidence of abortion pills, created a national pregnancy registry
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How Columbia ignored women, undermined prosecutors and protected a predator for more than twenty years
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Women who were denied emergency abortions file lawsuits in three states: Lawsuits want to clarify abortion ban exceptions for ‘medical emergencies’ in Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee
36 votes -
Female surgeons sexually assaulted while operating
38 votes -
What physicians get wrong about the risks of being overweight
8 votes -
NarxCare score may influence who can get or prescribe pain medication
16 votes -
A huge threat to the US budget has receded. No one is sure why (A decade of Medicare spending growth and projections)
18 votes -
Centene to sell GP clinics and hospitals in exit from UK market
14 votes -
Does cancer screening actually save lives?
5 votes -
Foreskin reclaimers: The ‘intactivists’ fighting infant male circumcision
27 votes -
Risk of death related to pregnancy and childbirth more than doubled between 1999 and 2019 in the US, new study finds
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Texas has quietly changed its abortion law - explicitly allowing abortion for premature ruptured membrane and ectopic pregnancy - how it happened
31 votes -
A single reform that could save 100,000 lives across the USA immediately
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Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby found guilty of seven counts of murder, and seven counts of attempted murder in the UK
24 votes -
The fight over what’s real (and what’s not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok
20 votes -
Midwestern US cities become transgender health sanctuaries amid GOP legislative threats
33 votes -
The logistics of moving wounded World War II soldiers across the US by rail were staggeringly complex
16 votes -
The hidden fee costing US doctors millions every year
22 votes -
Helsinki could become a 'sanctuary city' for medical treatment, as the new right-wing government continues to crack down on undocumented migrants
8 votes -
How one doctor in the USA keeps practicing, despite a long string of sanctions, fines, and lawsuits
30 votes -
The UK NHS in crisis - evaluating radical alternatives
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American Physician Partners is latest physician staffing firm to fold — it follows Envision, and physicians consider further consequences of difficult market
9 votes -
AI has helped radiologists detect 20% more cases of breast cancer during screenings, new Swedish study finds
25 votes -
Artificial intelligence versus human-controlled doctor in virtual reality simulation for sepsis team training: Randomized controlled study
10 votes -
Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine
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Five myths in the US House of Representatives anti-trans hearing against gender affirming care
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Bernie Sanders 'disappointed, but not surprised,' as US Senate rejects 10% military spending cut
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What do you think on how suicide prevention is handled in the world? What can be done better?
I was inspired to write this after reading this reddit post. It ranted about people who attempt to disuade people from commiting suicide by telling them that they are selfish because of the impact...
I was inspired to write this after reading this reddit post. It ranted about people who attempt to disuade people from commiting suicide by telling them that they are selfish because of the impact it will have on other people (I do think it is explained better in the post if you are interested).
However I have also been thinking about how suicide prevention is handled by most governments. I am not sure of exactly what process happens in other countries, but in America if you fail a suicide attempt you can be involuntarily put into a mental health asylum for a temporary period of time, and from reading many accounts of what people have experienced in these asylums and from my ongoing experience with suicidal idealation I very much feel i would be 10x more likely to commit suicide if I was put into such a facility once i got out.
But I also wanted to talk about other ways individuals may try to disuade people from suicide which i find problematic. Before i continue, i do want to say that I am not blaming these people, they have very good intentions. But something that has bugged me for a while has been that whenever people discuss suicide/mental health problems the first thing that is done is just recommending suicide hotlines/telling the person in question to seek a therapist/psychologist. While these options can be good for many people, i want to mention that- Suicide hotlines (mainly 811) are known for reporting people to police and having them put in mental health asylums (often times unnecisarlly). And staff at these suicide hotlines are often uneducated or rude to callers, or will just not answer or even hang up.
- Many people in these circumstances do not have access to trained proffesionals. Even if you live in a country with public healthcare, you may be in a situations (mainly abuse) where you cant get access to one either way.
Anyways sorry for the rambling, my brain is tired and i just wanted to get this out there. But based off of the above points, do you think that suicide prevention in society is flawed, and what could be better? While i do agree that it is flawed and there are ideas related to government on how to handle suicide prevention, i do not know what could be done on the individual level. To me one of my only resources apart from seeing other people experiences online is music (mainly Elliot Smith, Linkin park, Soundgarden and Nirvana) which I deeply relate to. But anhedonia can prevent enjoyment of such things.
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Idaho drops panel investigating pregnancy-related deaths as US maternal mortality surges
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How does the new over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill, work to prevent pregnancy?
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'Hospital-at-home' trend means family members must be caregivers — ready or not
15 votes -
The lost patients of Washington state's abandoned psychiatric hospital
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America’s therapy boom
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The post Dobbs dilemma for US emergency healthcare - Navigating the conflict between EMTALA and State abortion restrictions
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2022 guidance from President Biden's administration assures doctors they’ll be protected by US federal law for providing emergency abortion care even if their state bans the procedure
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I have severe and persistent mental illness. I now work as a public mental health professional. Ask me anything.
Symptoms from my diagnoses of bipolar 2 and social anxiety disorder kept me from working, socializing, forming relationships, and living independently for more than a decade. I worked my ass off...
Symptoms from my diagnoses of bipolar 2 and social anxiety disorder kept me from working, socializing, forming relationships, and living independently for more than a decade.
I worked my ass off to improve my wellness, and for the past 6 years I have worked as a Peer Support Specialist for 2 different public agencies. I tell my story to other people with mental health and substance issues as part of my work. If anyone’s interested, I’d love to share it here too.
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US states scrutinize the amount of charity spending from nonprofit hospitals in light of high salaries and large tax breaks
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nonprofit-hospitals-tax-breaks-community-benefit/ POTTSTOWN, Pa. — The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nonprofit-hospitals-tax-breaks-community-benefit/
POTTSTOWN, Pa. — The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity.
The takeover by Tower Health meant the 219-bed Pottstown Hospital no longer had to pay federal and state taxes. It also no longer had to pay local property taxes, taking away more than $900,000 a year from the already underfunded Pottstown School District, school officials said.
The district, about an hour’s drive from Philadelphia, had no choice but to trim expenses. It cut teacher aide positions and eliminated middle school foreign language classes.
“We have less curriculum, less coaches, less transportation,” said Superintendent Stephen Rodriguez.
The school system appealed Pottstown Hospital’s new nonprofit status, and earlier this year a state court struck down the facility’s property tax break. It cited the “eye-popping” compensation for multiple Tower Health executives as contrary to how Pennsylvania law defines a charity.
The court decision, which Tower Health is appealing, stunned the nonprofit hospital industry, which includes roughly 3,000 nongovernment tax-exempt hospitals nationwide.
“The ruling sent a warning shot to all nonprofit hospitals, highlighting that their state and local tax exemptions, which are often greater than their federal income tax exemptions, can be challenged by state and local courts,” said Ge Bai, a health policy expert at Johns Hopkins University.
The Pottstown case reflects the growing scrutiny of how much the nation’s nonprofit hospitals spend — and on what — to justify billions in state and federal tax breaks. In exchange for these savings, hospitals are supposed to provide community benefits, like care for those who can’t afford it and free health screenings.
More than a dozen states have considered or passed legislation to better define charity care, to increase transparency about the benefits hospitals provide, or, in some cases, to set minimum financial thresholds for charitable help to their communities.
The growing interest in how tax-exempt hospitals operate — from lawmakers, the public, and the media — has coincided with a stubborn increase in consumers’ medical debt. KFF Health News reported last year that more than 100 million Americans are saddled with medical bills they can’t pay, and has documented aggressive bill-collection practices by hospitals, many of them nonprofits.
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Most patients using weight-loss drugs like Wegovy stop within a year, data show
10 votes -
Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors to go into effect for now
39 votes -
The UK's NHS mental health review will fail to answer its darkest secret
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Women in Denmark can now take a blood test to identify genetic foetal abnormalities in early pregnancy. But it has raised ethical questions.
62 votes -
Barriers to transgender health care lead some to embrace a do-it-yourself approach
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Freedom House Ambulance Service - a history of the USA's first paramedics
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Racism in medicine - the invisible effect medical notes can have on care
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ChubbyEmu case study of a victim of unlicensed food truck
14 votes