No MercyAugust 19, 2019 |
After the hospital closes, how do people get emergency care?
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Seizing on the surging popularity of at-home DNA testing kits, top academic medical institutions are opening clinics that promise to probe much deeper into your DNA — if you’re willing to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars out of pocket to learn about disease risks that may be lurking in your genes
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Undercover in a Hospital BedJuly 16, 2019 |
Secret shoppers pretend to be sick to help make hospitals safer for everyone else
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Not every hospital sues over unpaid bills, but a few sue a lot. In Virginia, 36% of hospitals sued patients and garnished their wages in 2017, according to a study published Tuesday in the American Medical Association’s journal, JAMA
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The Hospital Is Too Damn LoudJune 25, 2019 |
When the musician Yoko Sen was hospitalized a few years ago, she could not help but hear the hospital’s many alarms as a musician. Consider a cardiac monitor that beeps in C, she said, along with a bed-fall alarm that emits a high-pitched whine
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Almost 300 faculty and staff members of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City have signed a letter to the board of trustees calling for a “culture shift” in light of a lawsuit alleging sex and age discrimination at the institution. More than 260 medical students and 200 alumni have signed similar letters
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Stop the CarnageJune 3, 2019 |
Doctors call for an end to Syria hospital airstrikes. As Idlib province comes under renewed attack, Nobel laureates and surgeons issue a plea to save their colleagues and patients
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In Indiana, a local hospital system, Parkview Health, charged private insurance companies about quadruple what the federal Medicare program paid for the same care, according to a study of hospital prices in 25 states released on Thursday by the nonprofit RAND Corp
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