Last week on the Kevin M.D. medical blog Kyle Varner, M.D. wrote a response to the NRA’s #StayInYourLane tweets (example below). And the #ThisIsOurLane movement of doctors and surgeons posting gory images from emergency rooms to push anti-gun politics following the Philadelphia mass shooting this October. Dr. Varner explains his position and backs it up with…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Joshua Gill A retired doctor volunteered to treat Charlie Gard in hospice after Gard’s parents accepted they could not take him home to die. Barrister Grant Armstrong, legal representation for Gard’s parents, told Justice Francis of the U.K. High Court on Wednesday that nurses from the Great Ormond Street…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell Doctors have not found any evidence to support North Korea’s assertions that a now comatose American college student came down with a rare case of food poisoning. Otto Frederick Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, who was detained in North Korea for alleged hostile acts against the…
by Robert Donachie The nation’s doctors have spoken, and they say Obamacare must go, according to a new survey. Nearly two-thirds — 65.98 percent — of the 587 physicians surveyed say Congress should repeal and replace Obamacare, according to a survey by Jackson & Coker. Just over 60 percent of physicians surveyed were opposed to Obamacare when…
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By JP Carroll Colombian doctors successfully surgically removed a live grenade out of the cheek of a Colombian soldier in a matter of minutes. 20-year-old Colombian Private Leandro José Luna sustained his odd and graphic injury on June 5, when a fellow soldier misfired a grenade launcher while on patrol. The surgery was deemed to be…
By Thomas Phippen An estimated 92,000 Coloradans enrolled in certain plans under Obamacare will have to find new coverage come November, according to a report from the Colorado Division Insurance released Monday. Those enrolled in the individual market through the state exchange could see their premiums jump by up to 40 percent in 2017. The report announced anticipated changes…
By Blake Neff Britain’s single-payer health care system descended into chaos Tuesday as thousands of the country’s junior doctors went on strike over a pay dispute. Junior doctors (roughly the equivalent of medical residents in the U.S.) have had intermittent work stoppages over the last few months, but until now they kept working in critical…
Josh Fatzick With the number of gay and transgender people on the upswing in the District of Columbia, city council members want to force doctors to take cultural competency classes to better accommodate them. The council heard testimony Wednesday from local activists urging them to pass legislation that would make“LGBTQ cultural competency training” a part…