Dr. Marilyn M. Singleton | America Out Loud: Recent Episodes
Dr. Marilyn M. Singleton | America Out Loud
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Starting in World War II, the government became more and more involved in managing our medical care. It started in 1965 with Medicare and Medicaid. Through the years, more regulations, prior authorizations, and patient databases became commonplace. The stake in the heart of physician autonomy...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – With schools latching on to this new twisted version of diversity and equality, I worry about what happened to people merely treating one another like fellow human beings. What is motivating the rich and powerful to decide that we should be categorized in perpetuity by race instead of our...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Now that fentanyl has become a street drug; it has become a quick path to death. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), fentanyl is now the top cause of death among U.S. adults (ages 18-45) — more than COVID-19, suicide, and car accidents...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – There is nothing more private than our personal health information. Yet now our information has become just another product to sell to the highest bidder. In 2018, Amazon made a software application that could mine a patient’s medical data and convert it to a searchable database. Amazon could customize the database for pharmaceutical companies, insurers...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Among those 60 or older, at least 80 percent have one chronic illness, and 50 percent have two. Such conditions include heart disease, cancer, stroke, dementia, Parkinson’s, diabetes, kidney disease, debilitating hearing loss, blindness, and chronic lower respiratory disease (COPD, bronchitis, emphysema, asthma)...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – The federal government’s solution to this deadly epidemic is its plan to establish a “National Strategy to Advance Social Connection.” Maybe this is precisely what is wrong. Since the Great Society programs in the 1960s, the federal government’s ever-expanding regulation of our lives has encouraged us to...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – From 2000 to 2022, the price of medical care, including services, insurance, drugs, and medical equipment, increased by 115.1 percent, whereas prices for all consumer goods and services increased by 78.2 percent. Hospitals' “facility fees” are of particular concern...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – But 25 years ago, the government made exceptions to this Anti-kickback law. This allowed some middlemen to do some fancy footwork when negotiating prices. In the world of prescription drugs, pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) are the middlemen. Their price negotiation was supposed to save patients money...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Should we seriously assess whether Americans take too many drugs in the first place? Should the government cap prices? If the government regulates prices, will the drug companies still make enough money for R&D? Another issue is the shortage of healthcare workers...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Thousands of nuclear weapons, 20 to 30 times more powerful than those used on Japan, reside all around the world. Adding to our Armageddon fear level, we have people going on and on about climate change and stopping the use of fossil fuels like oil and gas ASAP in order to save Mother Earth...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Medicine traditionally is full of all sorts of information and differing opinions. After all, the human body and its reaction to medications and other treatments are not always predictable. Continually questioning the so-called settled science is how progress is made. It became clear to...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Fortunately for unborn children, the recent Supreme Court case, Dobbs v Jackson, brought the abortion debate to the forefront. The pro-Roe crowd went so far as to surround the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices. The media could not continue to ignore the large numbers...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Over the last few decades, medical care’s focus seemed to shift from the patients to “the system.” To remind physicians, patients, and policymakers who’s the boss when it comes to medical care, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons published a Patient Bill of Rights...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – A GAO audit of foster care records from 2008 in five representative states found that 39 percent of foster children are being prescribed psychiatric medications compared to 10 percent of non-foster children. Although the actual percentages of children who received five or more psychiatric drugs...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – We went from striving for equal opportunity to a contest to see who is the most oppressed victim. Remember the words of Martin Niemöller: “Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.” Join me as I talk to David L. Bernstein about how woke ideology shuts down discussion of sensitive topics...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Sadly, with this new landscape, physicians are becoming less satisfied with the practice of medicine. Nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants are all valuable parts of the health care team. But does this mean they have the requisite skills to practice without physician supervision and are the primary answer to physician shortages?
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – A recent mathematical model using 15 years of data published in the journal Diabetes Care predicted a 700 percent increase in type 2 diabetes diagnoses in Americans under the age of 20 through 2060. Type 1 diabetes could also increase by 65 percent among young Americans in the next 40 years...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – People are no longer seen as individual human beings. Worse yet for the future of medical care, achieving diversity in school or the workplace is taking precedence over excellence. Competence and compassion can be found in white, black, gay, straight, male, and female physicians...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – While society continues on its journey to colorblindness, not only is blaming others and calling people racists counterproductive, it is not representative of how everyday people live and feel. Let’s embrace the positive history of courage and self-determination, take a break from politically...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Our politicians have failed to show leadership and inspiration. Therefore, we have to live our best life in our own world – our family and friends first – as George Washington said, our family is our first government. Let’s use today to think about recapturing our humanity with a little inspiration from MLK...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Medical schools are starting to add climate change courses to their curricula. Will climate change courses be like the Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity one-sided critical race theory teachings? Will both sides of the story be told? Is climate change merely another avenue to make everything racist?
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Relationships among individuals are what life is all about. Since their exit from the womb, some Americans have been fortunate to be surrounded by a kaleidoscope of humanity. Others grow up insulated from different types of people, music, dance, and art forms. When they leave their cocoon, they are hit with “culture shock.”
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – Death is always an uncomfortable topic. And organ harvesting is even more so. One organ donor of critical organs such as the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys can save up to 8 lives. 105,820 Americans are awaiting organs, and over 40,000 transplants were performed in...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – How did we go from an organic cultural shift to include all qualified persons in the medical profession to turning medical schools into socialist indoctrination factories? We’ve gone from equal opportunity to equal outcomes. We’ve regressed from taking it as normal that doctors like my father had patients of all colors, and nobody thought twice about it...
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Marilyn Singleton – California has become the personification of ‘how to be a tyrant for dummies.’ Ideology, not science, has taken over the legislature. Many folks think that what happens in California stays in California. Not true. For example, California approved a plan to require all new cars, trucks...