Healthcare refers to the system or systems used to deliver medical care to patients. It may be a monolithic, government controlled system (like the NHS in some parts of the UK) or a mixed system of providers and insurers (as in the US). Healthcare is the way the delivery of medical science is ...
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Does looking in the mirror make you feel more attractive? [closed]
How often should one look in a mirror? Is it bad to spend hours at a time staring at yourself in the mirror?
And most importantly, is there any explanation for why sometimes checking yourself in the ...
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Is there evidence that competition between hospitals creates better quality and lower cost healthcare?
There is a debate in England, as the government is changing the way the NHS works, to introduce more competition.
The NHS will still operate as a single payer, covering the whole population: but ...
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Does ignoring the extent of death caused by medical error distort the public perception of the quality of US healthcare?
Despite comparative evidence that US healthcare is very expensive and not particularly good by international standards, Americans seem to love it as evidenced by the debate on Obamacare and questions ...
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Is McDonald's exempt from the HHS Contraception Mandate?
The President of Eden Foods, a natural and organic food distributor, recently wrote:
The exemptions under the Act are illogical, inconsistent, and contributing factors to our lawsuit. For ...
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Urine: The body's own health drink?
Some claim it cures everything from colds to cancer, while stranded hiker Paul Beck drank nothing else for six days and survived.
Paul Beck, 33, was hiking in the Picos de Europa chain, east of ...
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Would the US deficit disappear if the costs of medical activity were more like the rest of the world?
It is well known that the USA spends more of its national wealth on healthcare than other countries (see, for example, some of the analysis in this question: Is more than 30% of US healthcare spending ...
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Does the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) provide higher quality, cheaper care than most other US health systems?
The VHA is the integrated health system providing healthcare to US military veterans managed by the Department of Veteran Affairs. It is currently regarded by by some other health systems as a model ...
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Are slow metabolisms to blame for obesity?
I have heard many times that someone's "slow metabolism" is responsible for their obesity. Many times I've also heard that it isn't to blame.
Here's an example of a source claiming that slow ...
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Does masturbating everynight cause problems in the future? [duplicate]
Did you know that plain and simple, over-masturbation will lead to
sexual under performance by way of premature ejaculation, as well as
other sexual problems. “Over-production of sex hormones” ...
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If a defibrillator is correctly applied to a person with a normal heart rate, what consequences will they suffer? [closed]
I've heard people say that a defibrillator being used on someone whose heart has a normal beat, like if they have a blocked throat and can't breathe, but still have a regular pulse. However, I have ...
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Is more than 30% of US healthcare spending waste?
National healthcare spending in the USA consumes more than 18% of GDP and is growing rapidly. Europeans criticise the expense and relatively poor quality of the US system (for example, see this ...
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Are the vast majority of medical procedures routinely used by physicians ineffective and unproven?
An organization called Freedom Health Canada makes an extraordinary claim on their website, which can be found here.
“Scientifically controlled clinical trials have shown that only 10 -20 % of ...
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Have 98% of Catholic women used birth control?
An NPR article on the debate about contraceptive coverage makes the following claim:
In fact, 98 percent of Catholic women use birth control at some point in their lifetimes.
Is this claim true?
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Is ICD-9 to ICD-10 migration in health care industry another Y2K-like opportunity?
The World Health Organisation publish the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD). A new version, ICD-10 was published in 1992.
I work in health care ...
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Are cancer recovery rates the same as they were in 1920?
Related: Have any “cures” been invented since the 1950's or so?
I ran across the movie Cut Poison Burn, who's abstract is as follows:
Cut Poison Burn is a controversial, eye opening, and ...
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Is osteopathic medicine evidence based?
There seems to be a lot of conflation of osteopathic medicine with other alternative medicines, even questions about whether or not it is an alternative medicine or mainstream. In the U.S. ...
