Would you consider calling for a national (or red state) health care providers strike?

Case on point:

Take Back Primary Care

By William M. Tierney, MD

Despite being the largest medical specialty, primary care's in crisis. There's a national shortage of 20,000+ #PrimaryCare physicians, & more leaving the field b/c adverse #Healthcare system issues.

link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

I have no clue how we get from our current medical system to a functional system with good care and reasonable costs. But the current system is breaking, so I suspect we will need to make major changes as things fail. Single payer UHC will be one of the options as we rebuild.

I'm inappropriately proud of this. I usually can't spot these at all, and am never first. Got lucky with an early notification and a very easy duplication!

Bottom row, the first through third blots on the left are copied as the second through fourth blots on the right.

Humility and grace are really important parts of being a caregiver in any situation, but particularly in an unfolding pandemic.

There is no chance you'll be right all the time. Admit that, accept it, and don't criticize others who are trying to do the same, even if you disagree with their choices.

concern that you would be wrong lead you to be unable to act. Many of the choices would be proven correct.

One of the parts of the COVID pandemic I've found most disheartening is the criticism some have gotten from other experts for being wrong some of the time.

I'd missed what I noted in the fall and winter of 2020 was an important similarity:

Things that you thought were true/correct/best care were proven wrong over and over.

And yet, you had to accept that you needed to provide what you believed to be the best care at the time and not let the

Great piece.

I got a similar question from an intern in mid March of 2020 as the situation began to unfold in Boston. He asked if I thought there was anything I'd learned during the AIDS pandemic that was applicable to COVID.

I told him that I thought the situations were very different.

But...

I have zero reason to think that ice baths are good for you, but this study only shows that blood flow and incorporation of amino acids are reduced for a few hours after an ice bath. Pretty unsurprising.

It says nothing about eventual muscle strength or composition.

The accuracy is for matching with a PET scan finding of plaques, not for diagnosing AD, right?

Whereas I was suspecting that her mind was Tiffany twisted since she has such a lovely face.

Shooting from the hip, since I haven't read the study, but I'd be looking at socioeconomic factors. I'd wonder if children who got antibiotics early had a different diet and/or different amounts of calories from children who got antibiotics later. They saw a doctor who prescribed antibiotics...