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Ozempic Nation (opens the original)
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GLP-1 receptor agonists, peptides that are FDA approved for obesity and related disorders and Type 2 Diabetes, are being used by more than 10% of the population. Never mind all those body positivity movements. The American people have clearly spoken. They emphatically want to be thinner.Medviews and More is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="ema
AI and Radiology (opens the original)
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I recently listened to the New York Times’ Ezra Klein podcast with Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia. Mr. Huang, whose company has a market capitalization of 5.4 trillion dollars(!), was self-serving in his answers to Klein’s questions. Everything he espoused could be linked to an improvement of Nvidia’s already gigantic market share. He, however, did make one observation that is very interesting. He feels that the concept of AI killing jobs is false. He talked about radiology as an example of how
Let’s Meet (opens the original)
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I recently attended the American College of Physicians, Virginia chapter meeting in Norfolk, Virginia. The weather was nasty. High winds, rainy, and cool. It was a good time to be indoors.Medviews and More is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="button primary" type="submit" valu
For Me, Not For Thee (opens the original)
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Vice-President Vance, together with Dr. Oz, the head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), proudly announced the other day that they were taking 750,000 people off the Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance plans. They proclaimed that these people committed fraud. A lot of this so-called fraud involved brokers overstating people’s incomes so they could get insurance. Now that they are off the ACA, they can apply for Medicaid. But here’s the rub. If your income is greater than 100%
Idiocracy (opens the original)
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AI boosters are very excited about solving heretofore unsolved math problems, and proposing new scientific theories. What AI does not do, however, is show its work (in part because it is developed by private, profit making corporations). It does not go through the hard task of tackling a problem, going through dead ends, and learning something new from mistakes. In fact, we do not know whether AI has made mistakes, or how much of their “findings” is just slop.Medviews
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