@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-02-12 19:51:30
I'm reading Brecht's "Life of Galileo" at the moment.
Substitute the Roman Catholic Church for the Trump regime, ReformUK, and the rest of that shower and you could be reading the news from 2026.
https://fediscience.org/@hausfath/116059370988950395
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-14 01:16:45
An ophthalmologist in Tehran has documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots in a single hospital,
as overwhelmed medical staff struggle to cope with the toll of an increasingly violent crackdown on nationwide protests by Iranian authorities.
Three doctors, in messages forwarded to the Guardian on Monday, described overwhelmed hospitals and emergency wings overflowing with protesters who had been shot.
Medical staff said the gunshot wounds were mostly concentrated …
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-03-13 22:00:05
sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-03-13 16:11:33
On ‘The Pitt,’ a fictional hospital meltdown highlights a real cyber crisis
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/the-pitt-hospital-cyberattacks-00827725
@servelan@newsie.social2026-03-13 21:12:19
A Georgia Hospital Turned Her In, Now She’s Charged With Murder
https://jessica.substack.com/p/a-georgia-hospital-turned-her-in
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-01-14 13:18:20
Cyberattack forces Belgian hospital to transfer critical care patients https://therecord.media/belgium-hospital-cyberattack-antwerp-az-monica
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-14 11:57:20
The failure of a hospital chain that provided its own malpractice insurance threatens to leave injured patients with no recourse.
Absent Oversight: States give little scrutiny to “self-insuring” health care companies. Agency officials say laws allow them to dodge normal safeguards.
Physician, Pay for Thyself: Doctors promised malpractice insurance have discovered they have no coverage for defense expenses and claims. One met with a bankruptcy lawyer.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-12 20:34:20
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-03-10 19:00:04
sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-12 23:34:35
Just weeks after the largest nurses strikein New York City history, the CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals has a bold vision for a future where AI, not human radiologists, examines and diagnoses X-rays.
At a panel held by Crain’s New York Business, Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of New York’s 11-hospital public benefit corporation, made overt gestures of his desire to replace highly trained radiology experts with visual language AI models, Radiology Business reported.