{"id":19967,"date":"2022-07-12T08:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19967"},"modified":"2022-07-12T08:32:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:32:45","slug":"in-the-label-adult-failure-to-thrive-medicine-reveals-its-own-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19967","title":{"rendered":"In the label \u2018adult failure to thrive,\u2019 medicine reveals its own failures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Eric Boodman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death certificate made everything worse. Seth Fischer was already angry: a physical feeling, an overwhelming internal buzz. He would go for runs, only to find himself passing the white bulk of mobile morgues, refrigeration whirring \u2014 and his mind would end up back on his dad, in respiratory distress, dying of Covid or Alzheimer\u2019s, he\u2019d never know which. He\u2019d requested a post-mortem coronavirus test, and had been told there weren\u2019t enough. I don\u2019t want to be offensive, someone from the health department had said, but he\u2019s already dead, what good\u2019s it going to do?  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/07\/12\/adult-failure-to-thrive-label-medicine\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/07\/12\/adult-failure-to-thrive-label-medicine\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"26\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 250px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Eric Boodman for STAT) The death certificate made everything worse. Seth Fischer was already angry: a physical feeling, an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19968,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19967\/revisions\/19968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}