We measure pain, why not pleasure? Decades ago, your kindly GP always dispensed comfort if not cure. He knew you since birth, and your mom since she had you. She held your hand and inquired about your vegetable patch, your grandkids, or how school was going. With few tools of modern medicine at their disposal …
August 2008 saw the first of South Africa’s rolling blackouts (load shedding). Three years later, the R360 billion financing of two massive coal-fired power stations – Kusile and Medupi – was approved. At around the same time, financing to move the country toward a very different energy future was proposed: a Green Bond to pay …
America spends an enormous amount (nearly 18% of GDP) on health care. Total US health care spend (2022): $4.5 trillion! [$1 trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 dollars] Per capita spend (2022): $13,493! [i.e., more than ZAR250,000 per person per year] Despite the huge outlay, the US achieves worse health outcomes than other wealthy countries. For example, life …
In the smartphone era, we tend to think of pagers are relics, as outdated as “Beepers”, a rap song from their heyday in the 80s. In fact, they’re still used in hospitals throughout America, at a time when even drug dealers have abandoned them. Two emergency room (ER) doctors in a busy San Francisco hospital …
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