Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. Retail Health for All, starring The Consumer Social ethos – community-driven HC financing – private-sector/commercial U.S.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 21, 2015

HC-130 gun ship on October 3, for causes still under investigation at press time. Syrian health care workers who haven’t fled are being threatened by both ISIS and the Assad regime with detention and prosecution for treating rebels. A hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan operated by Doctors Without Borders came under fire from an U.S.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 5, 2019

That means word is getting around about how insane US health prices are. Good thing, too – there’s a famous 2006 health policy article called The Pricing of US Hospital Services: Chaos Behind a Veil of Secrecy. There’s only one way that happens: people are sending it to friends.

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Health Policy HC 57

Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 13, 2018

It came in handy as I was sifting through my decision tree during cancer treatment ten years ago, and as I’ve become more and more interested in killing off quackery and over-, under-, and mis-treatment in medicine in my work as a citizen science activist and ground-level health policy wonk.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

“Before we entrust our care to AI systems and ‘doctor robots,’ we must first commit to identifying bias in datasets and fixing them as much as possible.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 6, 2018

I won the big platinum #PatientsIncluded ring (much better than brass) this year with an opportunity to attend the Cochrane Colloquium , the global health science and health services research meeting that happens somewhere on Planet Earth every year. Red Hot Chilli Pipers at the Colloquium | image credit: Simon Williams Photography.

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