Research Women more likely to die after heart surgery complications + AI racism in medicine?

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All too human: Racial disparities in pain assessment expose AI's flawed beliefs about race
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1061237

A study led by Adam Rodman, MD, MPH, Director of AI Programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), reveals that, rather than helping to reduce racial and ethnic biases, AI-driven chatbots may instead perpetuate and exacerbate disparities in medicine. The study appeared in JAMA Network Open... (MORE - details, no ads) 

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Women more likely than men to die after heart surgery complications
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1061237

INTRO: Despite having no greater chance of developing problems after high risk cardiovascular surgery, women are more likely than men to die from postoperative complications, a University of Michigan-led study suggests. A patient dying of complications after surgery is often referred to as a “failure to rescue”.

Investigators assessed more than 850,000 cases of Medicare beneficiaries who had high risk heart surgery — including heart bypass, aortic aneurysm repair, and mitral and aortic valve repair — between 2015 and 2020.

Men and women had a similar rate of complications after an operation, around 15%. However, women died of those complications at a significantly higher rate: Surgical teams failed to rescue female patients 10.7% of the time, compared to 8.6% for male patients.

The results are published in JAMA Surgery.

“This is an issue for the entire United States health care system: we are failing to rescue women after high-risk surgery even though the rate of postoperative complication is similar to men,” said Catherine M. Wagner, M.D., M.Sc., first author and an integrated thoracic surgery resident at University of Michigan Health. “There needs to be improved recognition and response to these complications if we are to narrow the sex disparities after high risk surgery.” (MORE - details, no ads)

[Syne]

“This is an issue for the entire United States health care system: we are failing to rescue women after high-risk surgery even though the rate of postoperative complication is similar to men,” said Catherine M. Wagner, M.D., M.Sc., first author and an integrated thoracic surgery resident at University of Michigan Health. “There needs to be improved recognition and response to these complications if we are to narrow the sex disparities after high risk surgery.” (MORE - details, no ads)

Or instead of it being a failure of the system, maybe it's just that the sexes are different and fair differently under similar circumstances. You never seem to heard about sex disparities when it comes to women living longer than men in general. This kind of language always seems to be unilateral.

[Secular Sanity]

Who cares about sex disparities when our healthcare systems are tanking from corporate pressure to prioritize profits over quality. It leads to an increase in administrative burdens, e.g., paperwork that detracts doctors from patient care. Doctors are leaving in droves. My doctor said that he doesn’t even know what family life is anymore. We used to have tons of doctors to choose from, and now...we have one doctor in charge of several nurse practitioners. We still pay the same, which is around $1,800.00 a month.

Kaiser was pretty good until there was a behind closed door deal with Newsom for the healthier batch of Medicaid patients. I’m sure he was heavily compensated for it.

I've thought about moving but earthquakes and fires seem easier to handle than hurricanes. Although, I am paying close to $12,000 a year for fire insurance. 

[Syne]

It's not corporate pressure. It's government subsidies and regulations, hence Newsom and Medicaid.

[Secular Sanity]

Yeah, government subsidies that are going to the corporation. It’s supposed to be non-profit, but the CEO makes 15 million a year.

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Yeah, government subsidies that are going to the corporation. It’s supposed to be non-profit, but the CEO makes 15 million a year.

He or she (they?) aren't even well off. If they lived cheaply and stashed a million away every year it would take them a thousand years to become billionaires. They're like the plasterers and decorators of the rich world.


https://aflcio.org/paywatch/highest-paid...0in%202023.

In the past 10 years, typical CEO pay at S&P 500 companies increased by more than $4 million, to an average of $17.7 million in 2023. Meanwhile, the average U.S. worker saw a wage increase of $18,240 over the past decade, earning on average just $65,470 in 2023.

[Secular Sanity]

He or she (they?) aren't even well off. If they lived cheaply and stashed a million away every year it would take them a thousand years to become billionaires. They're like the plasterers and decorators of the rich world.

If you could live off 10 million a year without starving, and added $5 million to your investment each year, and earned a 7% annual return, you would reach $1 billion in just over 40 years.

Transparency is key to trust. That deal was shady as all get-out.

The Getty family’s worth close to 5 billion dollars...and happens to have close ties with Newsom, Pelosi and Harris. There’s some shady history there.

[Side note] Did you know that Kamala’s middle name was changed from Iyer to Devi in 1965 because her mother and father wanted to distance themselves from the Iyers seeing as how Brahmins typically occupied a privileged position at the top of the hierarchy?

I'm like Yazata...a little grumpy Trumpy.

[Syne]

Yeah, government subsidies that are going to the corporation. It’s supposed to be non-profit, but the CEO makes 15 million a year.

You don't get the latter without the former. Companies, like universities, always increase prices to consume the available resources, that are artificially increased by government subsidies. If governments didn't pump more money into the system, or guarantee loans that have the same effect, no company or university could charge more than the unaided market could bear.

It just breaks the free market for the government to put their finger on the scale... often to the benefit of crony allies or their own insider trading. The first step to getting money out of politics is getting more money out of government hands in general.