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Fighting a rising tide of paperwork and bureaucracy, providers of health care, whether physicians, nurses, or administrators, say that time has become a scarce resource of which they have far too little.
Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
This is my starting point with any patient, whether they are like Anahad (with one prominent risk factor) or like me (lots of smaller risk factors). Our first order of business is to reduce the burden of apoB particles, primarily LDLs but also VLDLs, which can be dangerous in their own right. And do so dramatically, not marginally or incrementally.
... See morePeter Attia MD • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
In hospitals and clinics worldwide, patients and doctors have been recast as customers and service-providers. In fields and forests on every continent, economists are calculating the monetary value of ‘natural capital’ and ‘ecosystem services’, ranging from the economic worth of the world’s wetlands (said to be $3.4 billion per year) to the global
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
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A.J. Jacobs • The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
The concept of a “risk group,” Susan Sontag writes, “revives the archaic idea of a tainted community that illness has judged.”