Monday, October 02, 2017

Medical posts

Stuff posted to my medical blog, mainly links to other sites

Hepatitis (link to a podcast about the SanDiego outbreak).

Post Traumatic Stress and concussion. Post from a StrategyPage article

Freeze dried plasma and red tape. Also via StrategyPage.

Making doctors scapegoats for the opioid crisis.
It's the illegal drugs from China via Mexico...

diseases behind the headlines: Cancer cluster (links)

Public pooping and the 4F problem.

clueless officials at their best:

“This is an unprecedented outbreak,” said Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer and director of Public Health Services for the  San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency. “This is new territory.”



Basic sanitation is "new territory"? WTF?

but there are actually heroes mentioned in the linked articles.


Be Afaid. be very afraid.

Canada has euthanasia, and caregivers of senile old ladies want it.

Ebola lesson. Again mainly a link to a podcast.

the ancient use of drugs to inspire fanatics in the Middle East.

black market organ donations. a long rant.

A NYTimes best seller makes a book about getting a Chinese kidney look like fun, but it takes Dean Koontz to put things into context.


 an old disease comes back with the heroin epidemic.










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