The illegal executive order revoking federal workers’ right to unionize and collectively bargain is unacceptable. We have unions for a reason, it’s because they are needed…
Tag: healthcare workers
NIOSH certification of N95 masks will shut down in June if Trump admin actions are not reversed at HHS.
This will have ramifications for workers in various fields and the general public.
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other forms of government?
Politics is always involved in healthcare, and always should be. Doctors and scientists are humans and should not pretend to be above the rest of us or operating outside of the reality of our communities.
AI doesn’t exist, but Republican politicians really want to replace human doctors.
I’m sure not for themselves, but certainly for the general public according to some doctor politicians.
Republican Rep. Rich McCormick in Georgia says health should be handled by AI.
A GOP congressperson in Georgia, who identified himself as a doctor, actually said that the massive firings and downsizing of healthcare and public health workers at the CDC are justified because those people can be replaced by chatbots.
The information zombies of pandemic misinformation.
There are things that have stuck with people from the beginning of the pandemic when we didn’t know much, and science & clinical information on covid was new, but we need to move with the times.
Failures of public health in the pandemic reveal hospital infection control weaknesses.
Hospitals could certainly walk and chew gum at the same time when it comes to infection control given the right incentives and management.
Hospitals respond to disease outbreaks instead of preventing them.
An “uptick” is what they call it when half the staff at any job has been out sick during the last month or so.
Far from being satisfied, winning just emboldens the violent Trumpies.
The idea that you can satiate people determined to create havoc and harm is ridiculous on its face. In the wake of the election in 2016 I witnessed harassment myself almost immediately.
Right-wing voices intent on spreading bird flu & misinformation.
Various right-wing covid minimizers are pushing all sorts of misleading things about the very real threats of H5N1.
Doctors to strike with nurses in Oregon
Maybe healthcare corporations need to start coming to the bargaining table more easily in this case?
All the nightmares of AI in hospitals.
Tracking everything a patient says in the ICU in order to deny nurses the ability to complain about unsafe staffing levels.
Do we want hospitals that are clearly not pandemic-ready at all?
All staff, every last person working in a hospital should be provided with N95 respiratory protection.
