“Death with Dignity law” and opiate crisis/OD’s.. endless source of organs to transplant ?

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Death by organ donation: Euthanizing patients for their organs gains frightening traction https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/05/02/organ-donation-physician-assisted-suicide-death-disability-column/3628448002/ Organ donation is a selfless gift to those on transplant wait lists. But what if we euthanized patients by harvesting their organs? How should society respond to the increasingly long list of people waiting for organs on a transplant list? You’ve no doubt heard […]

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Is this the template of how “national health insurance” would work ?

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Whistleblower says VA ordered fake appointments to cut waiting list https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whistleblower-says-va-ordered-fake-appointments-to-cut-waiting-list/2019/06/26/97e50648-9856-11e9-a027-c571fd3d394d_story.html One day before Minu Aghevli testified at a House committee hearing about official Department of Veterans Affairs misconduct, she received a thick packet of documents that shook her life. It amounted to a pink slip more than 170 pages long, including about 140 pages […]

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Physician Burnout Costs the U.S. Billions of Dollars Each Year

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Pharmaciststeve

Physician Burnout Costs the U.S. Billions of Dollars Each Year https://time.com/5595056/physician-burnout-cost/ Burnout, characterized by emotional exhaustion as well as feeling cynical, ineffective or unaccomplished at work, is bad for both employees and employers. For doctors and hospitals, though, the ramifications can be especially dire. Doctors in the U.S. experience symptoms of burnout at almost twice […]

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