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American doctor will be monitored in US after possible exposure to Ebola in Congo

The person, who has not been identified, is headed to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha for monitoring, the release states, adding the Nebraska Medical Center is home to one of the nation’s few dedicated biocontainment units. “This person may have been exposed to the virus but is not ill and is not contagious,” said… Read More: American doctor will be monitored in US after possible exposure… »

American Fashion Brand, Tom Ford Refuses To Take Any Stern Action Against its Manager, Tatyana Gleyzerman, After She Gets Accused of Sexual Misconduct

Tom Ford and Tatyana Gleyzerman (Photo Credit: Instagram) The year 2018 wasn’t so great for the fashion industry. Recently Prada made headlines when it was criticised of racism through its new range of products. And Earlier Dolce & Gabbana’s racist campaign for Chinese people invited the wrath of the entire country and they had to… Read More: American Fashion Brand, Tom Ford Refuses To Take Any Stern… »

American anti-intellectualism and its impact on physicians

For several years now, I’ve been the social media curmudgeon in medicine. In a 2011 New York Times op-ed titled “Don’t Quit This Day Job”, I argued that working part-time or leaving medicine goes against our obligation to patients and to the American taxpayers who subsidize graduate medical education to the tune of $ 15… Read More: American anti-intellectualism and its impact on physicians »

Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

The definitive story of American health care today—its causes, consequences, and confusionsIn March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America’s health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law… Read More: Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will… »