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The Patients Left Behind

The Patients Left Behind

FromPrognosis: Losing it


The Patients Left Behind

FromPrognosis: Losing it

ratings:
Length:
13 minutes
Released:
Apr 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The pandemic is putting care on hold for a lot of people with other serious health conditions, like cancer.Doctors are delaying procedures and surgeries in order to save resources like hospital beds and ventilators for Covid-19 patients, and prevent the infection from spreading. Emma Court reports on the difficult choices doctors are forced to make, and the danger that we're creating another health care crisis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Apr 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

For much of human history, we’ve turned to diets to lose weight and improve our health. But it’s mostly been in vain. No matter how much the number on the scale drops begins to go down, chances are that the weight will come back. That’s just what the science says. But when it comes to weight, the facts just don’t seem to matter. Losing It, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis, looks at how we got weight loss so wrong — and whether there’s a better way forward.