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Category Archives: Medicine
NEJM: ‘Building Black Wealth — The Role of Health Systems in Closing the Gap’
The New England Journal of Medicine September issue packs a punch on behalf of blacks as against whites: It will not be enough for health systems to simply offer the wealth-building opportunities we have outlined. Rather, they need to make … Continue reading
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Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine
Here are some highlights from this 2009 book: * Americans are besieged by advice about the efficacy of medical therapies and drugs as well as behavioral and dietary modifications that will presumably prevent disease, promote health, and extend longevity. Scarcely … Continue reading
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Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
Marcia Angel writes in 2009 for the New York Review Of Books: Consider the clinical trials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinical trials to show … Continue reading
Freedom Of Medicine
Greg Cochran writes: There are people that think that we could have much faster medical progress via a basically libertarian approach: decrease or abolish government regulation of drug development. Or permit companies to market new drugs without first proving that … Continue reading
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Where Are The Mexican Doctors?
I was watching the documentary Code Black about life in the emergency room at LA County Hospital and there’s not one black doctor nor one Mexican doctor. Most of the doctors are white with the occasional asian. REPORT: The “Code … Continue reading
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Hospitals Held Hostage
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I’m actually not surprised that healthcare access matters less for the poor. For life-threatening matters, they get access to an emergency room, regardless of whether they “have access to healthcare” in the sense of insurance … Continue reading
Democrats Are The Party Of The Disaffected
Comments to Steve Sailer: * “Hillary Campaigns to be America’s Third Black President” Modelling yourself after the only living two-term Democratic presidents seems wise, no? The high/low strategy of simultaneously appealing to affluent suburban whites and poor minorities wins elections, … Continue reading
Acceptance rates at US medical schools in 2014 reveal ongoing discrimination against Asian-Americans and whites
From AEI: Here are some observations based on the new AAMC data: For those applicants to US medical schools last year with average GPAs (3.40 to 3.59) and average MCAT scores (27 to 29), black applicants were 4 times more … Continue reading
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