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Blake Farmer

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Diagnosing and treating patients was once an ER doctor's domain, but they are increasingly being replaced by health practitioners who can perform many of the same duties and generate much the same revenue for less than half the pay.
  1. ERs staffed by private equity firms aim to cut costs by hiring fewer doctors
  2. Long COVID clinics are wrestling with how to treat their patients
  3. Buy a rural hospital for $100? Investors pick up struggling institutions for pennies
  4. Overdose reversal drugs gain support at music festivals, but not fentanyl test strips
  5. Advocates struggle with how much they can help with self-managed abortions
  6. Southern Baptists vote to fight sexual abuse and elect a leader eager for change
  7. Even with risky survival rate, shortages of ECMO machines cost lives, study finds
  8. As state medical boards try to stamp out COVID misinformation, some in GOP push back