Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Humans are emotional, fallible, and prone to mistakes when tired, rushed, or overloaded. AI is just a machine. It does not get sleepy, flustered, or distracted, and in theory it can draw on a vast body of medical knowledge in seconds. So why not let AI replace doctors, or at least help guide patients directly? … Read more
Health Care Sharing Ministries masquerade as health insurance providers. They are not. They have no legal obligation to pay any claims.
There is a healthcare game to play here via the New York Times, but first a bit of preamble. Because I live in the UK and have personally experienced the UK’s National Health Service I have a rather obvious bias. This perhaps also comes with strong feelings of hostility towards UK conservative political wet-dreams that … Read more
When we started vaccinating for measles back in the 1960s it had the intended effect; the decline and obliteration of Measles. We might think of it as a harmless childhood illness, but its eradication is truly a big deal. The prognosis for measles is that complications such as bronchitis, sensorineural hearing loss, and panencephalitis (which is fatal), can occur, so eradicating it … Read more
Julia Belluz writes in Vox about the state of maternal healthcare in the US. The article entitled “California decided it was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth” contains the following graph that sums things up … Let me emphasise what this is telling you. Between the years 1990 and 2016, the numbers of women dying … Read more