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In 2012, a fictitious U.S. vice president on the television show “Homeland” had his pacemaker hacked. In 2013, former Vice President Dick Cheney told “60 Minutes” that after he watched the show he instructed doctors to disable the wireless capabilities in his actual pacemaker. Cheney might seem a little paranoid, but last year the FDA recalled 465,000 pacemakers, citing security vulnerabilities. More …
Making Health Care Human Again THE CURRENT U.S. HEALTH CARE PICTURE is pretty bleak: more than 12 million serious diagnostic errors each year, a third of the $3.6 trillion spent attributed to waste, reduction in life expectancy for what will be three years in a row (which is unprecedented), and peak levels of physician burnout, depression, and suicide. That’s all …
