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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. Companies that control both insurance and care delivery have a great deal of flexibility in what the accountants term “transfer pricing”.

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Nurse Allegedly Refused to Send an Ambulance for Migrant Child Who Died in Custody

Scrubs

The family was being held there after Reyes Alvarez tested positive for the flu. He said the agency has launched a review of cases involving medically vulnerable migrant children in detention to make sure they were properly transferred out of CBP custody.

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NEW CE: Inpatient Transfers

NHA Now

While performing patient transfers, patient care technicians are at high risk of these types of injuries. Safe movement bolsters patients’ health and is required for the completion of many personal care tasks, diagnostic testing, and medical procedures. Patients are also at risk for falls and injuries as you assist them.

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Babies with the DNA of Three Different People Born in the U.K.

Scrubs

Once the egg has been fertilized with sperm, it is transferred back into the womb of the mother. “All applications for treatment are assessed on an individual basis against the tests set out in the law and only after independent advice from experts. ” The post Babies with the DNA of Three Different People Born in the U.K.

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Money in Medical Education Makes Me Sad

Sensible Medicine

Examples: patients with new heart failure get coronary angiography; patients with chest pain without evidence of heart attack get stress tests; certain drugs and devices become favored over generics. Practice patterns. Ways of doing things. The curious thing about many therapeutic fashions is their lack of evidentiary support. Less money.

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Do you think a bone marrow transplant is worth it?

Sensible Medicine

“I am on bone marrow transplant— which basically means that for some people with blood cancer we transfer a different person’s immune system into them. At the same time, the profession has— in my opinion— not been good about testing dogma. “The people who get a transplant, they can get very sick?

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Crossing the Pond by Plane in the Age of Corona – My View From the Hygienic Skies and on the Ground in Belgium

Health Populi

It takes some paperwork, testing, and information uploading and computer entry to build up a dossier that enables one to fly into Belgium. and second, providing me various instructions for traveling to Belgium , links to forms to complete before arriving at the airport, and a COVID-19 section for information and testing logistics.

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