Science Based Medicine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Measles and COVID are different, of course, but they are not categorically different. With both viruses, unvaccinated children suffer the most. Yet, doctors who rightly said "measles can be a devastating childhood illness" also said it was "breathless fear-mongering" to acknowledge that COVID can also be a devastating childhood illness. The post Doctors on Measles: “NEVER Listen to the Anti-Vax Cult When They Say This ‘Natural’ Disease is Harmless”.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I’ve managed to keep up the every other week Friday Reflection for 58 weeks. A very busy month almost led me to miss this deadline, and then my mother came to the rescue. My mom died 4 years ago. At the time I packed away her journals and albums, unable to imagine getting rid of any of them. During the last couple of weeks, for the same reasons I failed to write a reflection this week, I dove into her files.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

“ Groceries and glutes,” CNN reported in 2019 about a food store combining a gym in the store. While grocery stores have been embedded various fitness options into their brick-and-mortar footprints long before the pandemic, there’s a new riff on fitness at the grocer coming to Augusta, Georgia: grocery and golf. FreshTake, a new grocery store from a family-owned food chain, will open its doors in 2024, located in a Whole Foods location that closed in 2017.

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Medical Gas Compliance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Most of us assume that because the hospital is plumbed for vacuum and gasses, everything will work right the first and every time. Usually, it does, but there is a reason every operating room has multiple outlets and inlets. Sometimes, things don’t go as planned.

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CareerStep

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While the healthcare industry, in general, has faced ups and downs in the last few years, rural hospitals and health networks, specifically, continue to face the threat of closure. Many have struggled to meet their staffing goals, leaving them unable to comfortably serve the communities they’re based in. This has led to a lack of healthcare options in rural areas that is not only detrimental to patients, but to the healthcare system as a whole.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In today’s climate, nursing is everywhere. It’s in the news and social media, but the coverage is rarely positive. Nursing has been America’s most trusted profession for years, but COVID-19 changed the perception of nursing. No longer are nurses viewed as the safe harbor for patients who were battered by the winds and wrath of an industrial health care complex.

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