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7 votes
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How do you prepare for people dying, and dying, and dying?
@Dawn Foster: Really difficult to watch this short video of people in their 20s with no underlying conditions on ventilators with Covid pic.twitter.com/AHH0hKXSoI
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Some patients could be living with the aftereffects of Covid-19 for years to come. Recent research into chronic fatigue syndrome might help us understand how to treat them.
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Parents warning about harm to children after UK legal decision bans access to puberty blockers
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Tethered to the machine: For years, Jamarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way
7 votes -
NPR Hospital bed utilization lookup tool
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"Women feel they have no option but to give birth alone": The rise of freebirthing during the pandemic
6 votes -
A charity that pays off medical debts
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University of Nebraska Medical Center, the best-prepared hospital in the US for a pandemic, is nearly overwhelmed
10 votes -
NHS to trial blood test to detect more than fifty forms of cancer
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Born to Be: A documentary about the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in Manhattan, the first comprehensive healthcare center for transgender and non-binary people in New York
8 votes -
Rapid antigen testing is less accurate than the US government wants to admit
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"No one is listening to us": More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this.
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US COVID-19 hospitalizations have hit an all-time high
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Internal documents reveal COVID-19 hospitalization data the US government keeps hidden
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FBI, DHS, HHS warn of imminent, credible ransomware threat against US hospitals
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Pandemic spikes in rural states, where small hospitals are already in financial distress
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US hospitals overwhelmed by rebounding virus
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Effect of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients with Covid-19
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Texas doctor, 28, dies of Covid: "She wore the same mask for weeks, if not months" due to PPE shortages
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A doctor gave me an inept diagnosis for a neurological problem. I should know: I’m a neurologist
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One man's COVID-19 death raises the worst fears of many people with disabilities
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Covid testing rant
I'm in line at a free covid testing site. It is a CVS minuteclinic. I have to use the normal drivethrough, and self administer the nasal swab. What the hell is that bullshit? My wife went to a...
I'm in line at a free covid testing site. It is a CVS minuteclinic. I have to use the normal drivethrough, and self administer the nasal swab.
What the hell is that bullshit? My wife went to a 'real' test site where a professional swabbed and she described it as a pap smear on the back of her eye.
So I'm going to a CVS so they can print a barcode, give me, an unqualified layperson a long qtip and a test tube to do my own test and drop in a collection box. Which they will likely ship to an actual lab.
And for all of this 'work', they get to bill my insurance for hundreds or more, which will likely mean rate hikes later.
Our healthcare system is a sham, and this is just further proof. Given I have to do it myself anyway, the government should just mail me a kit which I then drop off.
It would not shock me in the slightest if they actually just drop the tests in a dumpster and just send a 'negative' a few days later.
Edit: 40 min later, through line and swabbed. Yes, they just have Quest diagnostics empty the dropbox. 0 reason CVS should be involved.
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With Canada and Mexico borders closed, Americans are trapped in their own health care system
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A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration rule that would allow healthcare providers to discriminate against transgender individuals, one day before the rule was set to take effect
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The reverse birth tourists: Americans are choosing to have babies abroad to avoid the crushing maternity and childcare costs in the US
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Four terminally ill Canadians get special exemption to use psychedelic therapy
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Today, in Brazil, I was hit by a car. I'm so grateful we have universal healthcare
My first memory after leaving the house to cycle was being taken by the ambulance to the hospital. I was evaluated by several medical professionals. One of them spent two hours stitching my mouth...
My first memory after leaving the house to cycle was being taken by the ambulance to the hospital. I was evaluated by several medical professionals. One of them spent two hours stitching my mouth and forehead back into something that resembles a human being.
Brazilian SUS is not perfect by any means. It's unorganized and some procedures and operations can take a long time to happen. There's lots of corruption with doctors that work in multiple places at the same time.
But, a lot of the time, it freaking works. The paramedics were gentle, affectionate, and competent. Some in the street knew my mother so they when to my house and called her--she accompanied me in the ambulance.
The hospital was not pretty by any standard. There were burn victims screaming bloody hell and I'm pretty sure I saw a woman die--but hey, that's a hospital, people die there!
An actual orthopedist made sure I did not have any fracture. An actual neurologist made sure I have no neural damage. A surgeon stitched my mouth and forehead back together into something that doesn't look like a character out of Frankenstein. It still looks bad, but it'll improve with time. A very nice nurse cleaned up all my bruises and have me aftercare orientations.
On several occasions, we had to manually seek people and procedures that were supposed to happen automatically. The operation itself was a mess, but the doctors and nurses were extremely caring, competent, and dedicated.
This all cost me exactly zero dollars. I didn't even had to fulfill any absurd form or provide an excess of documentation: just my national registry (RG), something almost every citizen has unless they're a very specific kind of homeless.
This is in a very poor unstable country. It is absolutely not perfect, but on many occasions, it kinda works!
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"We could see this tsunami of people coming": Inside the world of intensive care units
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Covid-19 and the limits of American moral reasoning: The “war on coronavirus” is lost. It's time for new pandemic metaphors - and a radically new culture of care
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America's looming primary-care crisis
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"Before I become your doctor, you have been intubated for weeks" - one doctor's experience during the pandemic
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US hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors — because of Donald Trump’s visa ban
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Warnings of possible cover-up in progress as Trump orders hospitals to stop sending coronavirus data to CDC
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In the context of healthcare, "lives saved” is the wrong measure
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"All the hospitals are full": In Houston, overwhelmed ICUs leave COVID-19 patients waiting in emergency rooms
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At hundreds of rehabs, recovery means work without pay
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Internal messages reveal crisis at Houston hospitals as coronavirus cases surge
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Into the fog: How Britain lost track of the coronavirus
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Hospitals in the US sued to keep prices secret. They lost
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Hypertension affects one in four adults and is usually treated with medication, even though lifestyle changes can reduce blood pressure
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A Native American tribe plans to build an opioid treatment center, but neighbors have vowed to block it
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Egypt thought it dodged the worst of the pandemic. But now hospitals are being overwhelmed
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The US federal government will now allow health care providers to deny care to anyone they perceive as trans or gay
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Brazil’s favelas, neglected by the government, organize their own coronavirus fight
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Coronavirus is spreading faster in LA, straining resources again
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Scores of testing sites forced to close because of vandalism in civil unrest
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Coronavirus patients flood hospitals in Indonesia's second-largest city
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Urine test for kidney stones gives results in thirty minutes
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Danish robot swabs throats for coronavirus – advance could mean healthcare workers are not exposed to risk during the monotonous process of taking samples
6 votes