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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses healthcare’s focus on back end treatment rather than front end treatment: treating the symptoms rather than the causes of the health condition. Unfortunately, healthcare belief and opinion rather than science seem to rule too much of healthcare today.

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Training Days: Surthriving an Execution, Antidepressants, then Myself — A Cop’s Tale

Mad in America

Despite my years of training in de-escalation attempts, verbal commands, defensive tactics, control holds, less-lethal methods, I was losing this fight. I could hardly tolerate food or even water. My friends wanted to come and drop off food or a white chocolate mocha, but I told them not to. I was starting to lose consciousness.

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Ep 244: Andrea Shaffran on Assisting 8 Executives and Holding Multiple Roles

Go Burrows

She currently serves as the Western Healthcare Alliance Executive Assistant Peer Network Chair. This organization helps 30 rural hospitals in Colorado, Utah, and Michigan find collaborative solutions, including resource sharing, to help save its members money to keep healthcare in rural communities local and sustainable.

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Why employee wellness matters – and how it’s good for business

Insperity

Availability of healthy food and opportunities to exercise, such as taking walks. The business case for employee wellness Your business should prioritize employee wellness if leadership cares about: Reducing healthcare claims and containing benefits costs (particularly health insurance).

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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz

Mad in America

But it’s also about access to food, safe and reliable transportation, and other basic resources. As a journalist—much like how Robert Whitaker’s journalism led to Mad in America—I was curious about why, in a healthcare system that’s continually expanding with more medications, people are still feeling so sick.

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‘We are somewhat invisible’: Why home care work is so hard—and so critical

Work Life

It might come as little surprise that working in retail or fast food ranks as one of the most common jobs in the U.S. There are workers in this sector who are trained nurses, while others lack any kind of certification but offer critical support to patients. Workers don’t always receive adequate training or high-quality equipment.

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Majority of people feel confident in their ability to adapt to era of AI

Workplace Insight

Workers believe hospitality and food services employees will be the second-most resilient to AI replacements (45 percent), followed by healthcare workers (44 percent). Workers say on-the-job training is the most useful way of preparing for changes in their role over the next five years (45 percent).