Robots, Research & Rubik's Cubes

Unethical research in Guinea-Bissau; Robots won’t fix maternity care deserts; Louisiana tries to extradite California doctor.

Americas public health system teeters on the edge of an ICU admission thanks to the abysmal leadership of RFK Jr and his Clown Car of Public Health officials. This week, the doctors discuss the origins of proposed unethical and exploitative research in Guinea-Bissau. Next, Louisiana attempting to extradite a California doctor for prescribing abortion medications. And Dr. Oz thinks robotic ultrasound machines will close Alabama's maternity care desert.

Marley is not interested in the US buying his country.

Trump’s “Great Healthcare Plan”

Unethical research in Guinea-Bissau

• Inside Medicine 
• Guardian article about the response from the African CDC and officials in Guinea-Bissau
• Rolling Stone gets the receipts
• Criticism of researchers in Vaccine
• Harriet Washington’s Medical Apartheid

Abortion News

• Louisiana hopes to extradite a California physician
• Dr. Oz’s on robot ultrasounds in Alabama
• A robot-assisted ultrasound machine and a robotic-assisted surgery device
• RFK Jr slammed for criticizing Germany’s “interference” in the patient-physician relationship.
• ProPublica: Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans

💊Take Two and Call Me in the Morning

• Arghavan’s carousel of owl impressions
• Beginner method to solving Rubik’s cubes
• Emily Elbert's country blues skills
• Merlin BirdID by Cornell Ornithology Lab

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