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8 votes
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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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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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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
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The Black American amputation epidemic
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Andrew Cuomo gave legal immunity to nursing home execs after big campaign donations. Critics say data proves New York's liability shield is linked to higher nursing home death rates
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Trump team killed rule designed to protect health workers from pandemic like COVID-19
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Hospitals in Latin America buckling under coronavirus strain
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Canada’s nursing home crisis: Eighty-one percent of coronavirus deaths are in long-term care facilities
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Amid the coronavirus crisis, a regimen for reëntry
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Hospitals in Brazil's São Paulo 'near collapse'
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Remdesivir distribution causes confusion, leaves some hospitals empty-handed
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Hospitals turn to Alicia Keys, U2 and The Beatles to sing patients home
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As coronavirus overruns Russia, doctors are dying on the front lines
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It's no accident Britain and America are the world's biggest coronavirus losers
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Doctors express glimmers of hope as they try out new approaches against coronavirus
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CityMD mistakenly told 15,000 Americans with coronavirus antibodies they're immune
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How scientists could stop the next pandemic before it starts
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"ICU delirium" is leaving COVID-19 patients scared and confused
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Department of Homeland Security report: China hid virus’ severity to hoard supplies
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Number of nursing homes in the US with publicly reported cases of the coronavirus soars
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The US wants Mexico to keep its defense and health-care factories open. Mexican workers are getting sick and dying
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Why are clinical trials so complicated?
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Can estrogen and other sex hormones help men survive COVID-19?
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Nurses have quit en masse from Russia’s top coronavirus hospital in Moscow over poor working conditions and low wages
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Many failures combined to unleash death on Italy’s Lombardy
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Coronavirus diagnoses in staff drop by half after Boston hospital requires masks for all
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New analysis recommends less reliance on ventilators to treat coronavirus patients
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Severe limits on coronavirus testing in Brazil are hiding the true scale of the outbreak, with researchers suggesting actual case numbers are 8-16 times higher than reported
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