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Conservative Libertarians for Health Reform!
Hey, if the insurance companies are supporting it, why not? In any case, with the Republicans turning the debate over health care reform into a Bugs-and-Daffy ''Duck season! Rabbit season!'' argument of perpetual naysaying, a lot of important messages aren't getting across. Case in point? A strong public health insurance option is a ...
Posted to Prescriptions by The Limitarian on October 14, 2009
Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
I was surprised to see that the article didn't mention Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT), another cardiac condition that also suddenly kills otherwise healthy adolescents and young athletes. We need to take more serious local, national, and international efforts in making available automated external defibrillators in ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by cprxmm77 on February 9, 2009
ER reform ideas
Even if it were legal for ERs to turn away non emergency patients, for a practical matter, they wouldn't. The risk of a patient seeming to have a non emergency complaint and then dieing before seeing a physician and the potential malpractice suits (and news stories) is one hell of a deterent. Even if it were a policy in the ER, and there were no ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by pachessnut on September 16, 2008