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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

Bill of Health

In my experience of working with Psymposia since 2019 , there has been a sea change in the broader field’s reception of critical perspectives on psychedelic medicine over the past year. Image: Psychedelic Science 2017 signage, courtesy of Brian Normand.

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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

Bold doing is better,” Dr. Eric Topol introduced his talk yesterday at Medecision’s Liberation 2019 conference. is a distinct negative outlier,” the doctor noted, pointing to the detailed data from the OECD published in The Economist. “Bold thinking is great. “The U.S.

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Could Self-Operated Assisted Suicide Devices Be Coming to a Town near You?

Bill of Health

Death” by some — has made it his mission to “ demedicalize death ” by removing doctors from the process of assisted suicide and bringing suicide devices directly into the hands of individuals seeking to end their own lives. Could the United States be next? Dr. Philip Nitschke — nicknamed “Dr. ending human life).

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Listening to Osler Listening to the Patient – Liberating Health Care at Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

Osler had been a strong advocate for the physician-patient conversation to inform the doctor’s diagnostic acumen and improve patient outcomes. The post Listening to Osler Listening to the Patient – Liberating Health Care at Medecision Liberation 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Responding to the Comeback of He Jiankui, ‘The CRISPR Baby Scientist’: Lessons from Criminal Justice Theory

Bill of Health

In 2019, a Chinese court found that Dr. He and his collaborators had “ forged ethical review documents and misled doctors into unknowingly implanting gene-edited embryos into two women ” in deliberate violation of national regulations on biomedical research and medical ethics.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

And, according to the WSJ reporting, “Neither patients nor doctors have been notified. Here’s the link to our post here on Health Populi, from July 1, 2019. Take a look at the bar chart data from a RealClear Politics poll conducted in April-May 2019. Let’s talk about Technology and Trust. health care.