#hospitals — Public Fediverse posts
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One of the best summaries of what went wrong with #US #Healthcare. No longer available from the PBS website(s) as far as I can tell. So I've taken the liberty of writing a review and posting it here with links to the original #video.
"Sick Around the World" (2008 #PBS #Frontline #Documentary)
Conclusions...
1) #Insurance companies must accept everyone, and cannot make a profit on basic care.
2) #Everybody is mandated to buy insurance, with government paying the premiums for the poor.
3) #Doctors and #Hospitals have to accept one standard set of fixed prices.https://richard.rathe.org/medicine/sick_around_the_world/index.html
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Stop putting women through brutal hysteroscopies without pain relief | Letters
By Guardian StaffThe medical system is biased against women, says Carole Kendall, pointing to the very different way men who have colonoscopies are treated
#Womenshealth #Women #Health #NHS #Society #Hospitals #UKnews #Doctors #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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Prostate cancer biopsies are unnecessary for many men, study finds
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/prostate-cancer-biopsy-mri-nhs-37564943
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Threatened Bird Species Given Tiny Foot Casts to Help Recovery After Hit by Car
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Extreme heat more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought
By Denis Campbell Health policy editorStudy finds older adults could face harmful heat stress at just 1.5C of warming above preindustrial levels
#Olderpeople #Extremeheat #Climatecrisis #Environment #Society #Health #Healthpolicy #Publicservicespolicy #Hospitals #Worldnews #TheGuardian #DenisCampbellHealthpolicyeditor
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Extreme heat more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/17/extreme-heat-more-dangerous-for-people-60-and-over-than-previously-thought #OlderPeople #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Society #Health #HealthPolicy #PublicServicesPolicy #Hospitals #WorldNews
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In hospitals built for a cooler climate in the U.K., this year's heat wave had staff dealing with patients too sweaty to receive IV drips, medication at risk of degrading and colleagues collapsing on the job. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/08/17/climate-change/uk-hospitals-heat-waves/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #heatwaves #uk #climatechange #hospitals
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Women should not have to travel for hours to give birth | Letters
By Guardian StaffReaders reflect on how hospital closures are putting pregnant women’s lives at risk
#Pregnancy #Hospitals #Health #Healthwellbeing #Family #NHS #Women #Society #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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‘It was barbaric. I was crying my eyes out’: why are so many women left in agony by routine womb examinations?
By Anna MooreThere are more than 70,000 hysteroscopies every year in England alone. The NHS calls them ‘low complexity’ – yet a shocking number of patients complain of inadequate pain relief and medical staff who refuse to take them seriously
#Women #Hysterectomy #Hospitals #Cervicalcancer #Health #Healthwellbeing #Lifeandstyle #TheGuardian #AnnaMoore
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Cheryl Tweedy's stalker moved to psychiatric hospital ahead of prison release date
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Based on her experience in the aftermath of the 1985 JAL crash, a former nurse is spreading her knowledge of seitai, or the arrangement of a deceased person's body. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/16/japan/jal-crash-nurse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #jal #airaccidents #flightjal123 #mountosutaka #hospitals #nurses
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It seems hospital "art" is always aiming at making your stay even more miserable. #hospitals #healthcare
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#Hospitals can provide fully plant-derived meals that ensure #nutrition adequacy, palatability, #cost-effectiveness & feasibility, enabling them to respect their clinical & #sustainability priorities while keeping patient needs central: doi.org/10.1007/s003... #PlantBased #Meals #Diets #Protein
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Man almost died and was left in four-day coma after bite by UK spider
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-coma-days-uk-spider-37550441
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Fully Plant-Based Hospital Menus Can Hit Clinical Protein Targets, Dutch Study Finds https://vegconomist.com/studies-numbers/fully-plant-based-hospital-menus-hit-clinical-protein-targets-dutch-study-finds/
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Same Knee Surgery, Twice the Price: Hospital Monopolies Push Up Healthcare Costs
A federal disclosure rule is offering new insight on the effect of healthcare monopolies on pricing, following a wave of U.S. mergers.
Archive: ia: https://s.faith...
#cost-transparency #health-industry #healthcare-costs #hospitals #midwest-bureau #mountain-states-bureau #rural-health #southern-bureau
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Dr Amir Khan shares heartbreaking reason millions of NHS patients are being dismissed
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Nonprofit #hospitals often don't behave like nonprofits. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/122566
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Doctors at remote Devon hospital get ‘crash course’ after maternity unit shut
By Steven MorrisStaff at North Devon district hospital given training in difficult births in case mothers-to-be cannot get to Exeter
#Devon #Hospitals #Womenshealth #NHS #Health #Society #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #StevenMorris
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Doctors at remote Devon hospital get ‘crash course’ after maternity unit shut https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/11/north-devon-district-hospital-crash-course-maternity-unit #Devon #Hospitals #WomensHealth #Nhs #Health #Society #England #UkNews
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Facemasks compulsory at health centres at popular UK Spain tourist hotspot after measles outbreak
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At the end of a long day I made a mistake at work. No patient was harmed and yet it weighs on me | Ranjana Srivastava
By Ranjana SrivastavaMy patients’ needs are varied and complex. Each interaction leaves a residue until the individual concerns blur into a dense mass, most requiring medical oversight
#Health #Hospitals #Doctors #Ageing #Mentalhealth #TheGuardian #RanjanaSrivastava
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‘Babies will be born in laybys’: maternity cuts leave women with stark choices in Devon
By Steven MorrisConcerns about feeling pressure to have caesarean section, or paying for hotel in Exeter after hospital in Barnstaple suspends birthing services
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/10/maternity-cuts-devon-women-stark-choices
#Hospitals #Health #Devon #Society #NHS #UKnews #Women #TheGuardian #StevenMorris
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We were at the hospital again yesterday for @Tree. Another rough day. We made it home after a few hours in the ER and she is OK now, sleeping off the experience.
The hospital and ER were full so while we were there we had a range of people flow through the beds beside us. An older gentleman with heart problems, a drunk man with heart problems, and a young woman, quietly crying for hours, coming down after an opioid overdose, confused and scared and hopeless. Occasionally sharp and upset, but mostly just quietly crying, talking.
It is so sad the human suffering we have allowed our society to tolerate.
I am so grateful we have good people; doctors, nurses, care aids, clerks, attendants, paramedics, even kind security guards and police, taking care of people. And I am glad all this is done without concern for financial ability to pay.
I wish our system was better in so many ways, not least in the ways it could help Tree. But in other ways, it is very good, and doesn’t get credit for just how good it is. Most of that is down to the people within it.
Most people, especially detached from money or power, are good. This is reinforced for me everytime I go to the hospital and see the random strangers that are there for every conceivable reason.
They just want to be happy, be secure, be with family, be occupied, be healthy.
That’s what I see at the hospital. People wanting to be happier, and people trying to make that happen for them.
I hope one day that young lady finds the people she needs to help her stop crying.
#healthcare #hospitals #bcpoli #canada #opioids #drugs #fentanyl #canpoli