Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The "Food Desert" Idea is a Useless or Harmful Myth

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The narrative of the food desert goes something like this: grocery stores are where you get produce and healthy food. Grocery stores are p...
Monday, December 17, 2012

Physicians and Status: "A Certain Mystique About Their Judgment"

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From Philip Tetlock , emphases mine. One of the reactions to my work on expert political judgment was that it was politically naïve; I was...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

British Columbia Court Upholds Physician-Assisted Suicide

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If you don't own yourself, what else matters?  In most of the developed world we aren't allowed to ask a medical professional to hel...
Friday, December 2, 2011

SCOTUS: Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Compensated

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Reported by Alex Tabarrok here . Egg donors might be next, then kidneys? There are coercive kidney donations going on already in East Asia...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Obesity and the Bad Stripe

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Maps here . Obesity splits into two bands in the eastern U.S.; one is the Bad Stripe and one is the Black Belt . I originally noticed the...
Friday, October 1, 2010

Guatemalan Tuskegee

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It's a good sign (though too late for many) that today Tuskegee seems unthinkable. It turns out that the same organizations were doing ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Medicare and Bush's Tricks

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Unfortunately, Bush's tricks are now Obama's tricks too. Just as Bush put out budgets that had little to do with reality (especiall...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

"Doctors Tea Party" In San Diego

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Because I will be a doctor in 3 years if things go according to plan, I'm of course concerned about any and all changes to the medical m...