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When Bias Turns Deadly: How Medical Bias Killed My 5-Year-Old Daughter

Scrubs

You may wonder how my husband lived almost 40 years and had three kids without ever being diagnosed – simple medical bias. If it weren’t for my medical education, we would have never known my children and husband had EDS and MCAS. often attributed to other conditions, not EDS. I am a doctor in the U.S.

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Florida Law Requires Hospitals to Report Patients’ Immigration Status

Scrubs

A new law is set to pass in the state of Florida that will require all hospitals receiving Medicaid funding to collect information regarding their patients’ immigration status as part of the admissions process. The announcement drew criticism from various medical groups and organizations. It is set to go into effect on July 1 once Gov.

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How Innovative Health Tech Can Reduce Hospital Re-Admission Rates

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Geoff Gross, founder and CEO, Medical Guardian. The Hospital Re-admissions Reduction Program took effect in 2012 with the goal of sustainably lowering hospital re-admission rates. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Applying to Medical School with a Low Science GPA

Accepted Blog

The process of applying to medical school is already stressful. And since selection committees are looking for evidence that you are ready for medical school, applying with a low science GPA can make the process even more nerve-wracking. This is one of the main reasons applicants are rejected from medical schools.

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Almost the AI Article I Want

Sensible Medicine

I’ve been using Tuesday to post the “Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills” articles recently. Even though I’ve got the case-control study ready to go, I’m taking a quick break because I spent way too much time thinking about this article last week. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

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The Best Medical School Letter of Recommendation Advice for 2024

Accepted Blog

If you’re writing a recommendation for someone, or you’re drafting your own recommendation for your recommender to edit, these elements will help you structure your letter effectively and highlight the information the admissions committees want to see. this is valuable information that the admissions committee needs.

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How medical school fails students

Sensible Medicine

Let me discuss the ways in which medical school fails students. These essays will be about how institutions, particularly academic medical leaders, fail doctors in training. The pre-medical curriculum is tangential to medicine at best. Once students get to medical school we make them memorize loads of irrelevant trivia.