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“The real lesson,” Burkeman writes, “is that it pays to use whatever freedom you do have over your schedule not to ‘maximize your time’ or ‘optimize your day’, in some vague way, but specifically to ring-fence three or four hours of undisturbed focus (ideally when your energy levels are highest).”
Simplify Your Time Management With the ‘Rule of 4’
inc. magazine
**Flowhub**, a retail platform for cannabis dispensaries, is rolling out ‘The Great American Dispensary Tour,’ a docu-series produced by **Ricki Lake**.
The DEA’s Hearing on Cannabis Rescheduling Kicks Off 👀
Jeremy Berke
2024 was arguably the year that the mortal dangers of corporate medicine finally became undeniable and inescapable. A study published in *JAMA* found that, after hospitals were acquired by private-equity firms, Medicare patients were more likely to suffer falls and contract bloodstream infections; another study found that if private equity acquired a nursing home its residents became eleven per cent more likely to die. Although private-equity firms often argue that they infuse hospitals with capital, a recent analysis found that hospital assets tend to decrease after acquisition. Yet P.E. now oversees nearly a third of staffing in U.S. emergency departments and owns more than four hundred and fifty hospitals. In some of them, patients were “forced to sleep in hallways, and doctors who spoke out were threatened with termination,” according to Jonathan Jones, a former president of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here | the New Yorker
Dhruv Khullar
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