Medicine-Life Balance and Other News

Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines, including generational shifts in doctors’ approach to work, a promising vaccine for norovirus, the latest on the bird flu outbreak, and the struggles of corporate-backed primary care companies.
Links:
Norovirus
CDC: Norovirus (www.cdc.gov/no...)
“Bivalent norovirus mRNA vaccine elicits cellular and humoral responses protecting human enteroids from GII.4 infection” (www.nature.com...)
“Doctors trial world’s first mRNA vaccine against vomiting bug norovirus” (www.theguardia...)
“Who Didn’t Get a Second Shingrix Shot? Implications for Multidose COVID-19 Vaccines” (www.kff.org/me...)
Work-Life Balance
“Young Doctors Want Work-Life Balance. Older Doctors Say That’s Not the Job.” (www.wsj.com/li...)
“State of Women in Medicine: History, Challenges, and the Benefits of a Diverse Workforce” (publications.a...)
Bird Flu
“CDC Confirms Human H5 Bird Flu Case in Missouri” (www.cdc.gov/me...)
STAT: H5N1 Bird Flu (www.statnews.c...)
Primary Care Goes Corporate
“Why Large Corporations Are Entering Primary Care” (hms.harvard.ed...)
“Cigna Turns $739 Million Profit Despite $1 Billion Loss On VillageMD” (www.forbes.com...)
Prescription for the Future: The Twelve Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations (www.amazon.com...)
E. coli
“E. coli Outbreak Linked to Onions Served at McDonald’s” (www.cdc.gov/ec...)
“How disease detectives’ quick work traced deadly E. coli outbreak to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders” (www.cnn.com/20...)
CDC: Outbreaks of E. coli infections (www.cdc.gov/ec...)
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Platform
“Elon Musk wants you to submit medical data to his AI chatbot” (www.fastcompan...)
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