Amputations We spend $8 billion dollars a year on amputations, and the average amputation costs over $100,000… [R]oughly twenty percent of diabetic patients will develop ulcers on their legs and feet, and … twenty percent of those ulcers currently turn into amputations… The current pattern for all Medicare patients is for 20% of those ulcers…
Category: John C. Goodman
Friday Links
- Last year CMS received 41,136 complaints about the marketing of Medicare Advantage plans. (WSJ, gated)
- Do breaks from surgery improve the performance of orthopedic surgeons? Yes. HT: Tyler
- Can a dead person fly? Not before the TSA pats her down.
- CDC’s latest message: You don’t have to do anything about COVID, except please go get your booster urgently.
- A summary of Fauci flip flops. (NYT, gated)
Thursday Links
- Goldman Sachs throws Fauci and CDC protocols under the bus.
- American life expectancy has dropped three years!
- California bill would penalize doctors who spread Covid falsehoods, like “Ivermectin works” — even if it really does work. (NYT, gated)
- Omicron appears to produce contradictory results (pos/neg) when various test are used.
- Health benefits of tea.
Tuesday Links
- ADA lawsuit abuse: A wheelchair bound disabled man filed more than 800 lawsuits alleging violations of disability access laws, including mom-and-pop shops in Salinas, Ca.
- Lab rats have rights under US law. So do monkeys, fish and finches. Octopuses, however, have no rights. (NYT: gated)
- NYC has banned the sale of whipped cream canisters to people under age 21. Teens can use them to get high on nitrous oxide.
- Increasing obesity is an international problem, but the US comes in first.
- Inadequate sleep has been connected to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, mental disorders and cancer—between the hours of 4 a.m. and 6 a.m., our cognitive abilities are worse than if we were legally drunk. (WSJ: gated)