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A Long Journey to Family Practice

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Born and raised in Cuba, Angelfrey Armas Ruiz, MD, made significant sacrifices on his path to becoming a doctor.

Obamacare, in its entirety, is unconstitutional

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It’s a sad commentary that alarms go up among Washington elites when the Trump administration defends the Constitution and holds Congress to its word. That is, after all, what the Department of Justice did this week by agreeing with a federal court that all of Obamacare is unconstitutional.

Pundits declare that this decision will have disastrous political consequences for Republicans. The Constitution’s approval rating is far higher than Congress’, so I think reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated.

The best medical AI research (that you probably haven’t heard of)

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I’ve been talking in recent posts about how our typical methods of testing AI systems are inadequate and potentially unsafe. In particular, I’ve complained that all of the headline-grabbing papers so far only do controlled experiments, so we don’t how the AI systems will perform on real patients.

Today I am going to highlight a piece of work that has not received much attention, but actually went “all the way” and tested an AI system in clinical practice, assessing clinical outcomes. They did an actual clinical trial!

On Suicide, a Time for Reflection and Action

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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Two years ago, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, 4,075 Californians took their own lives. Nearly 80,000 more who attempted to take their lives, inflict self-harm, or expressed the desire to do so were treated in California hospital emergency departments.   As […]

State Files Appeal in Validity of AB 51

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The state of California has filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit in the case challenging the validity of Assembly Bill (AB) 51 (2019). AB 51 prohibits employers from requiring employees to sign a pre-dispute arbitration agreement as a condition of employment or continued employment. 

HRSA Announces Release of Additional Phase 4 Provider Relief Fund Payments

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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced the release of an additional $142 million in payments as part of the Phase 4 distribution of the Provider Relief Fund. These “Batch 8” payments were made to approximately 151 providers. From “Batch 8,” 30 California providers received $20.6 million.