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UNM has a partnership with KCC for us to help teach here. KCC is funded by the Juniper Fund!

I’ll be spending the next month in Nepal at the Khumbu Climbing Center teaching first aid to guides and other high altitude workers. Day 1 in Nepal was spent exploring Kathmandu seeing stupa and monkeys and eating MoMo. Next up we had to Lukla and start the trip to the KCC

New Mexico’s malpractice gold rush | Searchlight New Mexico The state is a rich landscape for attorneys who cash in big on medical liability lawsuits. The soaring cost of insurance against such claims is pushing some hospitals to the brink.

Medical malpractice lawsuits are an important tool for patients who are harmed by doctors — but in New Mexico, cases can claim such large sums that runaway insurance costs are pushing some hospitals to the brink of closure. searchlightnm.org/high-costs-m...

Lesson from today’s UNM wilderness medicine didactics on frostbite and hypothermia: Definitive care in the mountains is getting out of the mountains. #wildmedsky #emsky #foamed #medsky

Battered by Inflation, Physician Pay Isn’t What It Once Was Physician pay growth has lagged behind inflation over the past six years, resulting in an overall decline of $18,468 in real compensation, accordin...

Especially when physician pay overall has not been keeping up with inflation. That being said putting more towards lower paid fields that are struggling to attract new physicians like pediatrics and family med may have a bigger impact. opmed.doximity.com/articles/bat...

Physician compensation in U.S. among lowest for western nations A recent study by Alpharetta, Ga.-based staffing company Jackson Healthcare found that U.S. physician compensation is among the lowest of western nations.

There are certainly valid points in this article but taking money from physicians and letting insurance companies keep it doesnt seem right… www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/physici...