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The Medical Library: A Hospital’s Most Underappreciated Asset

HIT Consultant

In 2001, Ellen Roche was administered a drug, hexamethonium, as part of a clinical study on asthma at Johns Hopkins University. Why, then, are medical libraries among the first services to be cut when hospitals and health systems trim their budgets? Libraries can also help medical professionals avoid certain worst-case scenarios.

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Against American Public Health Exceptionalism

Bill of Health

In fact, the most striking similarity between our failed public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the drug overdose crisis is our resolute refusal to learn from our mistakes and the rest of the world and make overdue adjustments. Just as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. While the U.S.