by Monty Self | Sep 6, 2022 | Opinion
She was a shut-in admitted to the telemetry unit. This was the latest of several readmissions that year, and we suspected that she could not afford the co-pays for her medication. When I inquired if she needed medication assistance, she admitted to not taking the...
by Monty Self | Aug 30, 2022 | Opinion
Nearly 40 children living the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have lost their lives so far in 2022. Most recently, 17 children were killed in the Gaza Strip from Aug. 5-7, and two more were killed by the actions of Israeli law enforcement on Aug. 9 in the West Bank. On...
by Monty Self | Aug 19, 2022 | Opinion
The United States spent $4.1 trillion on health care in 2020, which is around $12,530 per person and 19.7% of the nation’s gross domestic product. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, this only reflects a 9.7% increase over 2019, which is around 4% higher than the average...
by Monty Self | Aug 10, 2022 | Opinion
Researchers from Yale University have partially revived dead pigs, according to a peer-reviewed study published in Nature on August 3, 2022. In short, researchers took pigs that had no circulatory activity for over an hour and connected them to the OrganEx system,...
by Monty Self | Aug 2, 2022 | Opinion
More than 100,000 people in the U.S. died from unintended drug overdoses in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is a 15% increase over the 91,799 lives lost in 2020, which was a record increase of 30% over 2019. With...
