Corona
no conference March 6, 2020 -- Today, a conference I'd planned to attend (LOINC at Regenstrief) was canceled for fear of coronavirus propagation. Is this a national -- worldwide! -- obsession? Probably. Were the organizers wise to cancel? Also, probably. The risk is tiny but if something untoward had occurred, the consequences would have been unacceptable. So I am disappointed but sympathetic. Turns out medical conferences are being canceled everywhere: Which Medical Conferences Are Being Canceled by Coronavirus? We mustn't put our caregivers at risk. |
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Dan Keller's Nursing, Health Policy & Healthcare Technology Blog
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798