One Week Anniversary đ„
Issue #7: One Week Anniversary đ„
Welcome to the second week of MedMoves! Hope youâre enjoying our vibe and please send feedback if there is anything youâd like to see more or less of. Thanks for reading our new little newsletter.
A/V Quick Hit: CVP Waves
Use this awesome video/mini tweetorial as a chance to review your knowledge of CVP waves!
On Your Radar: Double Doc Diversity
This article examines a dataset of 10,000 MD-PhD graduates from the last 60+ years in an attempt to understand of sex, race, and ethnicity. Stealing the tl;dr from the abstract:
Training durationâŠwas similar for men and women and for minority and nonminority alumni, as were most choices of medical specialtiesâŠThese similarities were, however, accompanied by several noteworthy differences: (a)âŠwomen were less likely than men to have had a full-time faculty appointment, (b) minorities who graduated after 1985 had a longer average time to degree than nonminorities, (c) fewer women and minorities have NIH grants, (d) fewer women reported success in moving from a mentored to an independent NIH award, and (e) women in the most recent graduation cohort reported spending less time on research than men.
A/V Quick Hit #2: Comic Relief
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Tuesday TL;DR
Mixing it up a bit this week and featuring an article instead of a podcast, this incredible New Yorker piece details the life of a young man with substance use disorder who is in and out of detox, residential rehab, and sober homes in south Florida, and gives us devastating insight into the corruption that can happen when commerce and healthcare mix. One shocking excerpt, and itâs not even the most disturbing:
Between 2011 and 2015, prosecutors allege, staff at Good Decisions Sober Living, a sober home in Palm Beach County, filed a hundred and six million dollars in claims for urine drug screens with eighty insurance companies, and insurers paid out $31.1 million. According to an indictment, Kenneth Bailynson, the owner of Good Decisions, had opened his own lab and taken over the sprawling Green Terrace Condominiums, where he housed dozens of recovering addicts; he used the clubhouse by the pool as a collection site for urine. The Palm Beach Post reported that Bailynson turned Green Terrace into âan armed camp, where guards with guns made sure addicts did not leave.â At his detention hearing, Jim Hayes, the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, described Good Decisions as a âpiss farm,â in business âonly to harvest residentsâ urine.â (Bailynson has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer declined to comment.)
Definitely recommend adding this piece to your weekend long-reads list, or making time for it some evening this week.
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