The Happy Hospitalist is a board certified internist who works in the hospital and writes regularly on several blogs, including The Happy Hospitalist.
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What’s the deal with hospital stickers these days?
I found this sticker (above) laying around in Happy’s emergency department the other day.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Should we be encouraging children to come to the emergency room and feeling happy and excited about the sticker they get? Â I’m not sure putting a happy robot on a sticker and proclaiming ones exciting visit to the emergency is the best public health policy.
Perhaps we need to take a different course of action before another entire generation of citizens feel obliged to use the emergency department as their sole source of medical care.  Perhaps instead of a hospital sticker, children in the emergency room would all get a saline injection in their shoulder.
Now that’s the kind of memory you want kids to have of their emergency room visit. They should fear the hospital and do everything in their power to stay healthy as adults. Â Not feel giddy about happy robots on hospital stickers.
Do children get hospital stickers at your facility?
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
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