•Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End(Atul Gawande). (from a review by Sara Nelson: 'Yes, “death is the enemy,” he writes. “But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don’t want a general who fights to the...
A large, international study ofCOVID-19patients confirmed thatcardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, stroke, and cancer can increase a patient’s risk of dying from thevirus. Penn State College of Medicine researchers say their findings may ...
Our culture has been wrenched from our grasp and replaced by a cruel and hateful paganism. This has happened because Christianity in America has become impotent. The problem began when pastors stopped preaching the gospel strongly and listening to the sinners who responded to their evangelistic ...
In addition to negotiated payments, they can earn incentives for providing high-quality, efficient care. VBC differs from the traditional fee-for-service model where providers are paid separately for each medical service. While quality care can be provided under both models, it’s the difference ...
This results in alienation from nature and subverts the most important lesson of ecology; that we are all part of nature and interdependent with it. This aspect of environmental extremism leads to disdain and disrespect for fellow humans and the belief that it would be “good” if a disease ...
These included raised inflammatory markers (for example, C reactive protein), organ dysfunction (kidney, liver) and cachexia [3]. Given the common features shared in patients dying from cancer, a “dying process” has been proposed [3,4] but has not yet been described. Several validated ...