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Put that on top of the fact that most of us spent the better part of 2020-2022 getting berated by patients for suggesting they might have a deadly virus, or for asking if they were vaccinated, and people are a bit burned out. We wrote letters, pushed back on social media, lobbied our professional societies, and fought our politicians, all to get any little bit of evidence-based public health response. Eventually most folks just gave up. 3/

So yeah, docs should mask. I wear an N-95 into every patient room to protect myself and my patients. Nonetheless, if you want to see hospital staff in the US masking, don’t take it out on HCWs. Take the fight to the places that matter — hospital risk management, hospital patient advocates, and public health authorities. Complain to the patient advocate about lack of masks. If you get COVID in hospital, notify the hospital that you feel it was hospital-acquired. 4/

You want to beat the maskless bullshit, make it expensive. Report hospital-acquired COVID to public health authorities. Bitch to the news. If you think it was negligence, sue the hospital like everyone else does for everything else. If you get a patient satisfaction survey, specifically note that your low scores are due to lack of masks. Make it cost money. Make people have to hold meetings. Make people write emails. That’s how change happens in healthcare. 5/5.

This week on Serious Trouble: can E. Jean Carroll sue Trump for his new statements at the CNN town hall? Can she sue CNN? Should George Santos be giving press conferences? Does Nina Jankowicz have a good case against Fox?

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/preclusion#details

I strike a fierce pose for the camera, then another, and another.

“Can you just stand still?” the x-ray tech sighs.

Our system is completely broken.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/14/business/economy/wealth-generations.html

For some reason, I got a ton (or at least several ounces) of people asking me about Faraday bags for phones the last couple days.

While I’m not in the Faraday bag testing business, you might find this writeup I did a couple years ago helpful, mainly to explore how you can think about what Faraday bags do and don’t do and how to measure them. Go science!

https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/

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