Modern healthcare is undemocratic, antisocial and thus largely unresponsive to its patients’ needs. Never before has healthcare been so far removed from the people it services. It is time to bring democracy to health care. Our fragmented systems of silos of clinicians, administrators, funders, policy makers and governments make it almost impossible for voters to […]
Month: April 2019
There is no opiate epidemic. We have a societal problem that isn’t going to be solved by restricting prescribing. Despite overwhelming evidence that the majority of opioid-induced deaths involves the use of non-prescribed opioids such as fentanyl and heroin, much of the focus has been on prescription opioids. Over the last two decades illicit fentanyl […]
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