“[The hospital] didn’t have any programs or anything to go to,” Angerer said. “It’s nobody’s fault but my own, but it definitely would have been helpful if I didn’t get brushed off.”
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Doctors Call California’s Probe Of Opioid Deaths A ‘Witch Hunt’January 23, 2019 |
The Medical Board of California has launched investigations into doctors who prescribed opioids to patients who, perhaps months or years later, fatally overdosed
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Baltimore’s 11 hospitals have committed to a new city initiative aimed at increasing their role in fighting the opioid epidemic. Executives from each hospital joined Mayor Catherine E. Pugh and Health Commissioner Dr. Leana S. Wen Monday in announcing the efforts to screen patients for addiction, connect them to rehabilitation services and distribute the overdose reversal drug naloxone, among other ways
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It was a fourth of July weekend but Sharon O’ Brien, an intensive care physician, was not celebrating. A medical error earlier landed a patient in her ICU. The patient eventually died — and she had to decide what to tell the patient’s family
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My ‘Smart Drugs’ NightmareJanuary 5, 2016 |
Benjamin Zand: The use of so-called smart drugs is growing in popularity. But do they work?
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Patients receiving common operations in the daytime fared no worse in the short-term if their attending physician worked a hospital graveyard shift the night before than patients whose doctor did not, according to a new study examining the effects of sleep deprivation on surgeons
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The Quality of Nursing Care for Sickle Cell DiseaseJuly 8, 2015 |
Q & A with Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award Winner Carlton Haywood Jr about his intervention designed to improve healthcare provider attitudes and beliefs about patients with sickle cell disease
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A Social Network Designed to Combat DepressionApril 1, 2015 |
When we uncritically accept connection as a good thing, we overlook difficult, important questions: Are some forms of virtual communication more nourishing than others? Might some in fact be harmful? Is it possible that Facebook, for instance, leaves some people feeling more lonely? No one knows for sure
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