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Mandy Oaklander | November 13, 2026     More hospitals are using remote critical-care doctors as they struggle with costs. Yet patient care can suffer when intensive care units are run by a physician on a screen rather than one at the bedside. My colleague Alana Semuels investigated the teleICU trend in her new feature for TIME. “I first became interested in teleICUs after learning about the case of Conor Hylton, a dental student who died in a teleICU in 2024,” Alana told me. “I soon learned that this controversial model is proliferating across the U.S.—and that patients can’t typically tell whether the hospital they’re about to visit uses remote or in-person care at the ICU overnight.” TODAY’S TOPICS When fatigue meets fraud The trouble with teleICUs Even the thermostat can cause a fight         BIG NUMBER $7.7 billion That’s how much Americans over 60 lost to cyber crimes in 2025, according to the FBI—a 34% increase over the previous year.  Phishing—when people are prompted to give up passwords and personal information via messages that look like they’re from trusted sources—is a common tactic, and a new study, which I covered for TIME, finds that even mild sleep deprivation makes people more vulnerable to it.  Read the full story here.         SPONSORED BY HUBSPOT FOR STARTUPS Find what’s slowing your GTM. Most GTM problems aren’t one big failure. They’re one or two weak spots quietly dragging down the rest. The free GTM Audit scores your go-to-market across four dimensions, then sequences a 90-day roadmap for your stage. Drop your URL. Get your score in about 10 minutes. Get My GTM Score         A GOOD READ Inside the troubling rise of teleICUs Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Images: Pexels, Arafat Uddin via Canva) It was the middle of the night in the intensive care unit (ICU) of Island Hospital in Anacortes, Wash., and a patient was hallucinating and in withdrawal from alcohol. The Ativan he’d been given wasn’t enough to lower his heart rate, and Joyce Selph, a longtime nurse, was called over to assist.  The protocol, she knew, was to call the attending physician and figure out next steps, but there was a problem. The hospital used a teleICU model, in which doctors staffed the ICU during the day, but only remote doctors were available overnight, via computer screen. Selph and the other nurses had tried to reach the teleICU doctor, but no one answered the calls. There was no one else to ask, and the patient was rapidly deteriorating. So Selph, who had been a nurse for more than 30 years, did what she assumed a doctor would do; she started the patient on Precedex, a medication that can help sedate a patient.  Giving medication without a doctor’s orders risked her license, Selph knew, but not doing anything risked the patient’s life. The patient survived. Selph was so disturbed by the incident that she complained to her nursing supervisors and to the hospital’s administration that having a doctor on screen rather than in person was bad policy, but they decided to keep it for financial reasons, she says. Soon after, Selph quit her job at Island Hospital, she says, because she felt that the teleICU was endangering patients’ safety and making her practice outside of her scope.   “They did it as a cost-saving measure because they were having trouble getting hospitalists to want to be there,” Selph says. “But I felt very strongly that it was unsafe.” (Island Health said, in a statement to TIME, that it launched a teleICU program in 2021 to strengthen the level of critical care available in its rural community. It has used a vendor to run the program, the spokeswoman said, and “any technical challenges that have arisen have been addressed directly with [the vendor] to ensure continued safe, effective patient care.”) More hospitals are implementing teleICUs, especially overnight, as they struggle to recruit enough providers while keeping costs low. Having a remote physician who can staff multiple hospital ICUs at once can keep ICUs open and revenue coming in, even in the midst of an ongoing shortage of doctors. Though the model was initially pitched as a way to help rural systems deploy experts at all hours, it is frequently used in more urban and suburban areas as well. One 2025 paper surveyed 574 adult ICUs across the country and found that about one third implemented some form of telemedicine.  Read the full story here.         SPONSORED BY SUPERHUMAN AI 1,000+ Claude Prompts Top Professionals Actually Use at Work Claude can be your analyst, editor, and strategist. But most professionals are using it to fix grammar. These 1,000+ Claude prompts take it from grammar tool to your most powerful AI work assistant. Sign up for Superhuman AI and get: 1,000+ ready-to-use Claude prompts to get real work done in minutes — researched, tested, and used by professionals at Google, Microsoft, and NASA Superhuman AI newsletter (4 min daily) so you keep learning new AI tools and skills to stay ahead in your career — the prompts are just the beginning Claim your free prompts         WHAT WE’RE READING Trump gutted USAID. Congo is paying the price in an Ebola epidemic, write Anthony W. Gambino and Proscovia Nabunya for TIME. Friends don’t let friends sign up for Medicare Advantage, Emma Freer writes in an opinion piece for MS NOW. Is your thermostat causing relationship drama? Anita Chaudhuri at the Guardian explores why couples fight over room temperature—and what those arguments might really be about.         SPONSORED TIME100 Most Influential Companies is expanding TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2027 entries are now open. 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Mandy Oaklander | November 12, 2026     Feeling stressed or annoyed? You've heard the advice before: just shake it off. But there's some truth behind the cliché, my colleague Angela Haupt learned. She asked experts why so-called "somatic shaking" works and exactly how to do it. Also in today's edition, Alana Semuels looks into the new trend of using AI to fight back against health insurance denials. A doctor who founded a company that helps patients do this told Alana he's seen it change lives. TODAY’S TOPICS AI vs. the insurer A “thinking couch” Why shaking off stress works The science exodus         THE QUOTE THAT STUCK ❝   Give patients the ability to argue articulately against the insurer, [and] you might actually change someone’s life.   Dr. Warris Bokhari U.S. health insurers routinely deny care to patients despite doctors’ orders, jeopardizing patients’ health and well-being. But certain companies are helping patients use AI to fight back against insurance denials.  For my new story on the topic, I interviewed Dr. Warris Bokhari, co-founder and CEO of one such company, Claimable. He told me that wording an appeal with AI’s help can mean the difference between getting a life-saving treatment and going without. –Alana Semuels Read the full story here.         SPONSORED BY GUARDIAN FINANCIAL PUBLISHING The 5 Stocks Nvidia Can't Grow Without Every Nvidia chip needs servers, networking, power and a data center to run. Analysts say the smaller companies supplying those pieces have more room to grow, with price targets up to 55%. Get all five tickers texted to you free today. Unlock All 5 Tickers         AT HOME WITH AN EXPERT A place to take time to think Harriet Rumgay, a cancer epidemiologist at the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, sent us a photo of an inspiring spot in her home in France, overlooking a river. “I sit and have my coffee and breakfast”—typically Marmite on toast—“in that spot every morning” before getting ready for work.  “I like to think I can get some natural light next to the window to kick-start my circadian rhythm. I love watching the birds in the trees and the occasional boat chugging past,” she says. It’s the perfect place where she can step away from work and refresh her thoughts. —Veronique Greenwood          SPONSORED BY SUPERHUMAN AI 1,000+ Claude Prompts Top Professionals Actually Use at Work Claude can be your analyst, editor, and strategist. But most professionals are using it to fix grammar. These 1,000+ Claude prompts take it from grammar tool to your most powerful AI work assistant. Sign up for Superhuman AI and get: 1,000+ ready-to-use Claude prompts to get real work done in minutes — researched, tested, and used by professionals at Google, Microsoft, and NASA Superhuman AI newsletter (4 min daily) so you keep learning new AI tools and skills to stay ahead in your career — the prompts are just the beginning Claim your free prompts         ONE SMALL CHANGE How to try somatic shaking for stress relief By Angela Haupt Imagine you’ve just washed your hands, and there’s no towel. Give them a gentle shake, and then let your arms join in. That’s the start of a stress-management exercise that may help loosen your tense muscles and give you a break from anxious thoughts, says Kim Penberthy, a clinical psychologist and professor of research in psychiatric medicine at the UVA School of Medicine. It’s a small movement experiment—sometimes called somatic shaking—that takes a minute or less, doesn’t require any equipment, and gives you something to try when telling yourself to calm down isn’t getting you anywhere. Here’s why shaking things out might help, plus how to give it a try. How does somatic shaking help with stress? Think about what happens when you’re replaying an argument or worrying about tomorrow’s big work presentation. Your mind is busy, sure. But your jaw might be clenched, your shoulders raised, and your neck stiff enough to make turning your head unpleasant. Shaking your body gives you a chance to notice—and loosen—some of that tension. “If you try to tense your shoulder and shake your arm, it’s sort of hard,” Penberthy says. Letting your arm hang loosely and gently moving it encourages you to relax those muscles. The movement also gives your mind something else to focus on. Instead of mentally rewriting the email you just sent, you’re noticing how your hands feel or concentrating on moving one leg at a time. That shift may briefly interrupt rumination—and remind you that you have a way to respond when you’re feeling stuck. Part of the relief, Penberthy says, is realizing: “I’ve got some ability to do something. I don’t have to just sit here and suffer.” Penberthy sometimes shakes things out herself. “I often do it after a very stressful day,” she says, especially when she notices her neck aching. The image that comes to her mind is athletes shaking out their limbs before heading onto the field: a mental and physical move.  Read the full story here.         SPONSORED TIME100 Most Influential Companies is expanding TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2027 entries are now open. With new Exceptional Workplaces categories, the TIME100 Companies publication is expanding to recognize businesses pioneering new approaches to how people work, from flexible and hybrid work to technology integration and career development.  Because it’s no longer just what you do, but how you do it.  Submit your company.         WHAT WE’RE READING The fallout of the Trump Administration’s gutting of science budgets continues, with young scientists increasingly deciding to leave the U.S. or science altogether, the New York Times reports. About half of adults with Long COVID saw symptoms improve by the three-year mark in a new study, reports Laine Bergeson for CIDRAP.  A mobile crisis unit in Delaware was designed to keep people who were experiencing mental-health crises out of emergency rooms and inpatient facilities. But the opposite scenario happened, Nick Stonesifer writes for Spotlight Delaware.       More Newsletters from Click to sign up. 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