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The British Medical Association will again go on strike across the country for five days this month. They want more money and the government will not give it to them. The government says talks will continue if the strikes are called off and the BMA will not do that.
After states enacted laws banning medical procedures for transgender youth, the judges have been overturning them. There has been no case where the state laws have won.
In Britain one has died and three others required hospitalization after being given an unlicensed cancer chemotherapy medicine. Sciensus, a pharmaceutical company, give the meds to the patients. The medicine is approved for prostate cancer but the batch given to the patients had an "incident" at the manufacturer.
From 2012 t0 2021 private equity firs buying physician practices went from 75 to 484. Most of these were in derm, eye, GI and primary care. These companies then chopped higher paying jobs or substituted them for lower paying ones, getting sheaper supplies or put pressure on the physicians to see more patients and order more tests. The practices that sell garner money but loose their autonomy and self respect. The amount of physician now in private practice has dipped to 46.7% That is a drop of 13% over the past decade. This is specially true in the new physician population where self-employed physiains is at 31.7%. Top
A significant percentage of the nursing staff at Watsonville Community Hospital resigned after the Board of Trustees eliminated most of its part time positions. The nurses say that 42 nurses resigned and the CFO says the number is 29, still a significant number.
The California Nurses Association voted a no confidence against the administration at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister. They say there is not enough staff due to cuts made by the administration.
Eleanor Slater Hospital in Massachusetts is back in the news. his time there is a vote of no confidence by the nurses of the hospital's leadership. This is basically the same thing as happened prior.
Adena Regional Medical Center in Chillicothe, Ohio, made an error in allowing a cardiologist with no credentials to perform TAVR at the hospital. They have now compounded their poor judgment by terminating a vascular surgeon who broke the story to the press several months ago.
St. Peter's Health Parners in Albany, New York has announced they will no longer hire traveling nurses that live within a fifty mile radius of the hospital. This means they will need to fire many of the nurses there now and pay higher wages and travel allowances for their replacements. Stupidity at hospitals never surprise me. Top
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