Baja California Life and death in the pandemic tragically revealed the shortage in many hospitals, and perhaps the entire healthcare industry, of trained nurses. The problem was so acute that many nurses could earn two and three times their normal pay, if they were willing to travel to some of …
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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 …