Best of the MedCitizens: Dollars on death, evil insurers

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• The cost of death: “Medical research and technology development,I am well aware, turns on the dollar. I have calculated the costs of hospital stays and rehabilitation, and I have regularly quoted statistics on the numbers of lives lost and impacted concerning my research. I was not however, ready to answer a question on how much a human life is worth.”
• The morbidly obese: a new hazard for nurses: “As America’s waistline expands, could patient obesity lead to a new wave of occupational head trauma for our front line nurses? With all our resources aimed at preventing never events on patients, is it time we also turned our resources to prevent life threatening vasovagal syncope trauma for our nurses as well?”
• Vilifying health insurers: a big mistake. “Bashing health plans gives others especially hospitals, clinics, doctors, patients, employers, politicians and regulators a free pass. The big drivers of health care premiums are volume of health care consumed and rising prices, which are not caused by health plans.”
• Harvard Bioscience jumps into regenerative medicine. President David Green said the 100-year-old company sees a major, long-term opportunity in regenerative medicine, particularly in developing tools used to re-grow organs for transplants.
• Cleveland Clinic’s ‘Healthy Choice’ for employees. Is this going to be the new trend in health insurance?
  

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