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Caring for Patients with Serious Illness: Insights from Kristofer Smith

Bill of Health

My mother was busy raising four children, and I watched her try to navigate and manage the health needs of my great grandmother and saw firsthand how difficult it was to get services in the home, how difficult it was to get her out to see the doctor.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

But there are also climate-related risks to health care institutions — think Hurricane Katrina and the images of patients having to be air-lifted out of urban New Orleans hospitals and nursing homes. Existing vulnerabilities enable those climate-related risks to more negatively impact health outcomes.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics. The authors call for improved regulation from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S.

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The Unsurprising Surprise of Social Determinants in COVID-19 Mortality

Health Populi

In this moment, doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists, and peer clinicians on their teams, are fighting hard to save all C19 patients on COVID wards and in ICUs, in field hospitals and nursing homes. As African-American patients have been admitted to U.S. They’ve passed away.

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