By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beatrice Vance died of a heart attack. The coroner says waiting in the emergency room helped kill her. The 49-year-old woman's chest was tight with pain when she walked into the ER at Vista East Medical Center in Waukegan last July. A blood clot had lodged in her heart. Read more...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Medical Mishaps: Vital Doctor Info Withheld
by Kirstin Cole
(CBS) NEW YORK - Kathy Lang is doctor shopping, turning to the Internet to find a physician. Read more...
(CBS) NEW YORK - Kathy Lang is doctor shopping, turning to the Internet to find a physician. Read more...
Hospital doctors shut doors to new patients
By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff November 12, 2006
Most primary care physicians at Boston's top-tier teaching hospitals are so busy that they have officially closed their practices to new patients.
Callers to Massachusetts General Hospital's physician referral line, for example, are told that all, or almost all, of the hospital's 178 primary care physicians are not accepting more patients. All 42 internists at Boston Medical Center have had full lists since four months ago, and 108 of Brigham and Women's Hospital's 120 primary care doctors have closed their practices to new patients. Read more...
Most primary care physicians at Boston's top-tier teaching hospitals are so busy that they have officially closed their practices to new patients.
Callers to Massachusetts General Hospital's physician referral line, for example, are told that all, or almost all, of the hospital's 178 primary care physicians are not accepting more patients. All 42 internists at Boston Medical Center have had full lists since four months ago, and 108 of Brigham and Women's Hospital's 120 primary care doctors have closed their practices to new patients. Read more...
HIDDEN CAM NAILS DOCTOR
By IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON
November 22, 2006 -- A doctor, two nurses and several aides from a Queens nursing home were arrested yesterday and face charges after a hidden-camera investigation revealed chronic patient neglect, authorities said.
A secret camera installed in a patient's room at the Hollis Park Manor Nursing Home recorded the comings and goings of staffers over five weeks, according to state Attorney General and Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer. Read more...
November 22, 2006 -- A doctor, two nurses and several aides from a Queens nursing home were arrested yesterday and face charges after a hidden-camera investigation revealed chronic patient neglect, authorities said.
A secret camera installed in a patient's room at the Hollis Park Manor Nursing Home recorded the comings and goings of staffers over five weeks, according to state Attorney General and Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer. Read more...
How to Get Out of the Hospital Alive
By: Erin Hobday & Ted Spiker
We imagine hospitals as havens from illness and accidents, but they're also home to bacterial booby traps and medication mistakes. Here's how to leave healed, not hurt. Read more...
We imagine hospitals as havens from illness and accidents, but they're also home to bacterial booby traps and medication mistakes. Here's how to leave healed, not hurt. Read more...
How to survive your doctor's care
By: Ivanhoe Newswire
ORLANDO, Fla. -- There are 600,000 physicians across the country and 5,000 hospitals. And what happens behind those walls can be miraculous.
It can also be deadly. Read more...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- There are 600,000 physicians across the country and 5,000 hospitals. And what happens behind those walls can be miraculous.
It can also be deadly. Read more...
To Catch a Deadly Germ
New York Times November 14, 2006
WHAT kills more than five times as many Americans as AIDS? Hospital infections, which account for an estimated 100,000 deaths every year.
Yet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which are calling for voluntary blood testing of all patients to stem the spread of AIDS, have chosen not to recommend a test that is essential to stop the spread of another killer sweeping through our nation’s hospitals: M.R.S.A., or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The C.D.C. guidelines to prevent hospital infections, released last month, conspicuously omit universal testing of patients for M.R.S.A. Read more...
WHAT kills more than five times as many Americans as AIDS? Hospital infections, which account for an estimated 100,000 deaths every year.
Yet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which are calling for voluntary blood testing of all patients to stem the spread of AIDS, have chosen not to recommend a test that is essential to stop the spread of another killer sweeping through our nation’s hospitals: M.R.S.A., or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The C.D.C. guidelines to prevent hospital infections, released last month, conspicuously omit universal testing of patients for M.R.S.A. Read more...
Some seniors get too many drugs
Greenville News Saturday, November 18, 2006
After surgery for a broken hip, 85-year-old Bernice "Penny" Nichols slept round the clock for nearly three weeks. "There's something wrong with my mother," her worried daughter, Sue Rollins of Greer, remembers telling the doctor. "She shouldn't be sleeping this long." Read more...
After surgery for a broken hip, 85-year-old Bernice "Penny" Nichols slept round the clock for nearly three weeks. "There's something wrong with my mother," her worried daughter, Sue Rollins of Greer, remembers telling the doctor. "She shouldn't be sleeping this long." Read more...
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