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Memories- with an averted nightmare

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BaxterBaxter, one of the larger firms in the dialysis business (but nowhere that powerful in the clinic business), made an announcement that it is planning to spin off its renal care and acute therapies unit into another public company.  It expects to complete the divestiture in 2024 or so.

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Money can’t buy me love. Turns out, it can’t buy better health outcomes, either.

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CYA. You know what it means. The problem is that concept does nothing to make us healthier.

Drs. Y. Tsugawa, A.K. Jha, J.P. Newhouse, A.M. Zaslavsky, and A.B. Jena of Harvard (among other affiliations) published results of their study about these medical practices in JAMA Internal Medicine. (Actually, this is a pre-publication. )

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Clean Hands?

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I remember teaching my kids how to wash their hands.  No, not the ritual washing that we Jews do before meals- but they had to learn that process, too.  (Pour water from a pitcher- first on your left hand, then the right, the left, the right, and then say the blessing.)   Because that method certainly doesn’t remove the grime and dirt- or microbes- from our hands.  And, if you have young kids, you know that sometimes that grime is not just on the surface of the skin, but seems to have been imbued down to the stem cell layers of their skin.

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