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6 votes
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Why the US never saves money on health care
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Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system?
28 votes -
Woman denied medication for being of childbearing age
59 votes -
US Senator calls for Department of Justice action against Philips for keeping CPAP machine complaints secret
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What happens when nurses are hired like Ubers
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Over 75,000 workers poised for largest healthcare strike in US history
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Health care has a massive carbon footprint. These doctors are trying to change that.
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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Rare 1885 photo captures the first licensed women doctors of India, Japan, and Syria
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Dozens of Greenlandic women who say they were fitted with the contraceptive coil without their consent or knowledge are planning to sue the Danish state
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US police blame some deaths on ‘excited delirium.’ Emergency physicians consider formally disavowing the diagnosis
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"Zeitgeist | Requiem" by Peter Joseph | Official trailer
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Joe Biden administration grants Seattle Children's Hospital $240K for LGBT sex education tool
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The villa where doctors experimented on children
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Women less likely than men to be given CPR in public places, research finds
27 votes -
Experts fear rural Americans are on their own during Medicaid unwinding
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Professionals in Sweden are pushing back hard against a rightwing plan to make them snitch on undocumented migrants
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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
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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
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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 in the UK
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
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Does cancer screening actually save lives?
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Foreskin reclaimers: The ‘intactivists’ fighting infant male circumcision
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Risk of death related to pregnancy and childbirth more than doubled between 1999 and 2019 in the US, new study finds
58 votes -
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
24 votes -
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
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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
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How one doctor in the USA keeps practicing, despite a long string of sanctions, fines, and lawsuits
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The UK NHS in crisis - evaluating radical alternatives
10 votes -
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
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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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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?
16 votes