Atlas Healthcare

05/31/2023

The Air Quality Index can warn you about wildfire smoke and pollution in your area. Here’s a step-by-step guide.

05/16/2023

A hospital CEO with competing interests intended to put a surgical group out of business, highlighting the profit-driven nature of healthcare and the pressures facing independent medical practices.

02/10/2023

The entire health care delivery system needs review and adjustment.

02/07/2023

“The glorification of profit, salve lucrum, is harming both care and health. Health care should not be an engine for excessive private gain.”

08/17/2021

I feel sadness as I reflect on these online events, and it’s not just that I’m nursing a singed throat. Being a “good girl” and following the rules, writing boring letters of recommendation: Are these liberal characteristics?

07/28/2020

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-appeal-decision-upholding-disclosure-of-rates-negotiated-with-insurers-11595036754

The American Hospital Association appealed a decision upholding a Trump administration rule that requires hospitals disclose the rates they negotiate with insurance companies that aren’t made public.

02/23/2020

An invaluable technical craft has become conflated with the greater mission of medicine: to serve the whole patient

07/31/2019

Why independence is not a thing of the past. Rather, it is the future of medicine.

03/01/2019

https://www.wired.com/story/how-measles-hacks-the-body-and-harms-its-victims-for-years/

The virus is the most contagious in the world, exploiting the human body's immune system to spread with extreme agility and harming its victims for years.

02/19/2019

https://blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-observations/index.php/six-musings-triggered-by-the-latest-measles-outbreak/2019/02/10/

In 2018, there were 372 cases of measles in the United States, the largest number since 2014. This year, we’ve already had 79 cases, many from a large outbreak in the Pacific Northwest — where anti-vaccine proponents recently protested efforts to restrict nonmedical vaccine exemptions. A few ru....

01/29/2018

By Amy Orciari HermanEdited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAMSmoking just one cigarette daily is associated with a "much