New Orleans Everywhere we turn, we’re being short-sheeted. Pick up the newspaper, and you know what I’m talking about. Oh, not because of the news inside the paper, but how flimsy it is, not for a nickel or quarter, but a dollar or more, despite the fact it’s both smaller, and there is …
Category: Disparities
On Pain, Doctor, Heal Thyself
Tegucigalpa The big Pharma and medical rationale for the opioid crisis has been that they were trying to create real options to deal with pain management that had been neglected virtually forever. Maybe, but the money was too good and the controls nonexistent, and now there are a million dead from overdoses over the …
Opioid Deaths Compounded by Medical Racial Bias
San Pedro Sula Even as Covid recedes, there are other epidemics still raging, and the response is racially biased. That’s the takeaway from a devastating article in Scientific American, appropriately entitled “Overdose Inequality.” Let’s start with one-million opioid deaths in the last 30 years. Then let’s move to the fact that in the last …