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Diaries published: 10 (1679 days since last diary on Sat May 04, 2019 at 07:36 AM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: Data Privacy and Coerced Personal Info Collection, 112 comments, 99 recommends
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If you like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and want a dumb laugh at anti-vaxx’s expense, check out this video. Wanted to link it to a vaccine diary but thankfully the bad news in that department seems to be in a lull today!
by bcallan
 4 comments
on Sat May 04, 2019 at 07:36 AM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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The Trump administration is about to publish a rule that will allow health care providers and insurers to deny service to patients/customers based on their “religious beliefs”. The rule does not go into effect immediately: it has to be published in...
by bcallan
31 comments
on Fri May 03, 2019 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Quick flag that yesterday a US District court blocked that the work requirements imposed by Kentucky and Arkansas for enrollment in Medicaid. Seema Verma at HHS has busily been approving state waivers (8 approved and 7 pending) to allow them impose...
by bcallan
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on Thu Mar 28, 2019 at 05:37 AM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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The New Yorker has had two recent articles on vaccination in the US about how patients get medical information. The first article by Masha Gessenis mostly critique of the way the health care system communicates with patients. The second article by...
by bcallan
25 comments
on Sun Mar 03, 2019 at 09:43 AM PST
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The separation of children from their families at the US border is the Trumpian policy that has the most immediate damaging psychological impact on individuals. It’s the nastiest, if not outright Nazi, of his addled administration’s projects. I have...
by bcallan
7 comments
on Wed Feb 20, 2019 at 11:43 AM PST
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I am increasingly frustrated by the way private companies force people to give up personal information. This goes beyond the “information” for “service” quid pro quo customers enter into somewhat voluntarily, usually unwittingly, when they sign up for...
by bcallan
112 comments
on Fri Feb 15, 2019 at 06:00 PM PST
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- One month ago, the measles outbreak in Ohio’s unvaccinated communities had touched seven child care centers and one school. At that point there were 18 confirmed cases. All of the cases were children, at least 15 of them under the age of 4. At least...214 comments 281 Recs
- Published tonight by Josh Marshall for Talking Points Memo, an accusation and a plea. Translated into rough English, from a Finnish TPM member who believes that the U.S. has yet to come to terms with the role we’ve played in providing the backdrop for...724 comments 1043 Recs
- Mike Pence tried “over and over” to find a way to satisfy Trump’s demand that he overturn the election's outcome, ending with a phone call in which even Dan Quayle informed him that he had “no power” to do anything. Legally, Pence’s entire role was to...280 comments 377 Recs
- Voto Latino, Media Matters to kick off campaign targeting vaccine misinformation in Latino communityA new initiative from Latino voter registration organization Voto Latino and media watchdog Media Matters for America is seeking to combat misinformation around the COVID-19 vaccine in the Latino community. The project, Latino...9 comments 59 Recs
- Rep Andy Kim (D-NJ) wasn’t in the US Capitol building as it was under siege, he was in a different federal building and thus didn’t see the damage until later that night when the House began to convene for voting on challenges to the presidential...182 comments 498 Recs
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- Enjoy!144 comments 356 Recs
- Gene Yaw is a Republican state senator representing Williamsport, PA. He’s been taking a lot of heat from Trump Dead-enders for refusing to go along with their schemes to try to overturn the results of the election in PA. And yesterday, he published...221 comments 566 Recs
- HIPAA disclosure, the picture above is not my patient nor is it my hospital but has been previously published. I take every care not to reveal confidential patient information and to respect the privacy of every patient. ExtraCorporeal...111 comments 271 Recs
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