This presentation was originally done on August 10, 2023, as part of the Chicago Actuarial Association Workshops. It was a PowerPoint presentation. The voice recording, below, is a slight modification of the original presentation. The slide presentation is provided as a PDF file. I suggest opening the PDF first in a separate window (and go to the first slide), then starting the voice recording and follow along with the slides as the recording instructs. All links included on the slides are also provided, below. Kevin Wolf is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, former-Member of the American Academy of… Read More
Medical Mentions Book Review VI
Medical Mentions is a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph for each. Prior Medical Mentions… Read More
U S Healthcare System – Reality vs Reform
Author’s website: 1. https://www.cartoonstudies.org/ ; 2. https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/gruberj ; 3. https://www.populareconomics.org/ Where to buy: 1. www.cartoonstudies.org/healthcare ; 2&3. https://bookshop.org/shop/graphicmedicine Book Review by Kevin Wolf I’m going to be geeking out a bunch in this book review. The topic covered, the United States’ healthcare system (USHCS), overlaps a lot with my professional life as a health actuary. I’m sorry if you find this review a bit statistics-heavy, but I can’t address the U.S. system without such information. This graphic medicine triple-book review will be time traveling backwards from today to the early 2000s. In 2019, the most recent with data… Read More