You’re probably sick of reading about COVID-19, and all the ways it can stress you out. So instead let me bring to your attention a different healthcare issue for you to fret about. An issue that epitomizes the way healthcare is being taken over by business entities, whose priority is to make money, more than…
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Renaming Palliative Care – We Need to Change Our Attitude to Dying
This great comment form the Washington Post was forwarded to me by the co-manager of the end-of-life group we are running. It makes the point that we not only need to think differently about palliative care, but about dying. The Washington Post 9/8/2020 Health Perspective In pandemic era, the term palliative care is even more…
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The COVID-19 Surveillance We Are Ignoring
Sometimes you hear of a brilliant idea and are thinking “why isn’t everyone jumping on this?” A Smart Thermometer to Detect COVID-19 Early When it’s an idea that could have a major impact on the spread of COVID-19, it’s even more frustrating that the powers-that-be aren’t implementing. I am talking about the Kinsa Health atypical…
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Gladiators Nursing Corona
I took my life in my hands the other day - wanting to see how things are on the front lines of the COVID-19 epidemic. Grace and I with our defensive gear To do this, I went and shadowed Grace Frye one of the nursing team on 2 South - the unit that has been…
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