Related to my previous post, I have previously stated that our healthcare system is not âcrumbling,â it has crumbled. But it has done so in phases, with mental healthcare leading the way.
âWe continue to see incredibly high demand for mental health services and an incredibly limited supply,â says psychologist Vaile Wright, senior director of Health Care Innovation at the APA. âThis is not a sustainable solution to addressing the mental health crisis in this country.â
I have no answers, other than the unmet needs discussed here are being pushed down to the primary care docs, who are not as well trained or experienced in dealing with this stuff. âThis is not sustainableâ is a huge, huge understatement. And more and more PCPâs are looking for the exit, new docs are choosing to not enter primary care fields, itâs a slow-motion collapse. It does not give me pleasure to say that mine may be the last generation of docs that could do what I do. And I will be able to close out my career as I started it, doing what I love. But I have no idea what comes next.
âIf we donât do anything, which is basically what weâre doing right now, itâs going to get worse,â Tom Scott, a medical entomologist and professor emeritus at UC Davis, said during the workshop. âThe damage from inaction is enormous, itâs unacceptable. Itâs unethical.â
Itâs also absolutely predictable, with a significant chunk of the populace prepared to react violently to any attempt to control illness, I would say we are well and truly screwed.
Oh, itâs worse than that! For-profit âhealth careâ will profit take off both prevention and treatment. People with insurance will struggle to afford either, and lots of people, mostly the elderly and small children, will die.
'Merica, fuck yeah!
[I hate this country sooooo much sometimes. 
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Ugh, I wish I could find the podcast from a few years back. College de France, a retired guru of the pharma industry put the lack of new anti-microbials down to the mergers in the 90âs, which stopped a lot of research.
The âresponsible useâ bit being Job 1, of course.
The data, released as part of an annual snapshot on children and HIV/AIDS, suggests that gender inequality, limited access to health care and a dearth of educational programs put girls at particular risk for HIV worldwide. Although the analysis found âtremendous gainsâ in HIV prevention and treatment, it notes that 71 percent of new infections among adolescents ages 10 to 19 are among girls.
In sub-Saharan Africa, which has the largest proportion of children and adolescents with HIV, prevalence among girls and young women is triple that of males.
At least one good newsâŠ
Yeah, i havenât had to worry about congenital syphilis in a long time. I do now, and it sucksâŠ
Julio Cesar was just 14 years old when he passed away from Dengue in 2023, two days before his 15th birthday. His mother, Mrs. Francisleine Costa was the 1st person to be vaccinated against dengue in the mass immunization campaign that began in Dourados, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in central Brazil.
â In Philadelphia, about 93% of children are fully vaccinated against measles by age 6, city officials said. About 90% of unvaccinated people who come in close contact with someone with measles will become infected. About 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized.â
