See you in Sequester

I think I'm going to start posting these as I see them, maybe even Tweeting them if I can be arsed, on the model of David Waldman with the gun violence incidents (see #gunfail).

The Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff reports that even the sequester’s relatively mild two percent cut to Medicare is forcing clinics to choose between providing care to patients, absorbing debilitating financial losses, or downsizing medical staff. Faced with those unsavory choices, clinics like North Shore Hematology Oncology Associates in New York are refusing to see as many as 5,000 of their Medicare patients. (Think Progress)

How to handle hair loss from chemotherapy.