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Public health
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

Talk to Your Doctor About Your Distrust of Public Health

Trump administration officials undermine medical establishment trust while simultaneously proposing solutions requiring Americans to consult their doctors, creating a fundamental contradiction in public health policy.
fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

Help! My Husband Constantly Laments the "Failures" of Modern Medicine. Uh, I'm a Doctor.

Occasionally, we'll see an ad or hear about something in what I would call the wellness-industrial complex (companies eager to earn a buck on people by sending lab tests that have dubious clinical significance and then selling the customer a cure, a panacea, or a longevity or athleticism cheat code), and he'll become surprisingly resentful and woeful about the entire concept of medicine, complaining that it offers him nothing because it only treats diseases rather than offering enhancements that could make him, essentially, superior to a typical disease free human (superhuman?).
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