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Caring for Patients with Serious Illness: Insights from Kristofer Smith

Bill of Health

Ultimately, the demands of my great grandmother, as her illnesses progressed, became so much that we couldn’t keep her at home. This wonderful and fiercely independent person who never wanted to live in a facility, spent the last year of life in a nursing home.

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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. In the article to which this assertion ties , Harris Meyer talks about the growing push for price regulation in 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.

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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

Bill of Health

COVID ravaged prison populations, nursing homes and the homeless with particular ferocity. To prepare for future pandemics, these groups too will have to organize, together with various abolitionist groups. They alone will have limited power, but together with the worker and community groups discussed, more can be done.