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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The Promise and Perils of Cellular TherapiesJuly 16, 2019 |
New “living drugs”—made from a patient’s own cells—can cure once incurable cancers. But can we afford them?
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Helping Doctors Connect with Patients Through ArtJune 28, 2019 |
New app encourages medical professionals to look at fine art and examine questions of empathy and observation
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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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“We see kids who come back to the clinic after they’ve been at camp and that’s all they are talking about. They can’t wait to get back. It gives them a little oomph to deal with the difficult ordeal they’re dealing with,” said our Dr. Yoram Unguru, medical director of Horizon Day Camp
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Bob Hall was recovering from yet another surgery when the volunteer first walked into his room. Unfortunately Hall had been in and out of the hospital quite a bit. It had been a rocky recovery since his lung transplant. But the volunteer wasn’t there to check on his lungs or breathing. Instead she asked Hall if we wanted to tell his life story.
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Preparing My Family for Life Without MeJune 7, 2019 |
After eight heart attacks, a young wife and mother with an uncommon condition curates her legacy while decorating a new home
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Dr Yasser Awaad ordered tests on hundreds of Detroit-area children and intentionally misread the results, telling them they had epilepsy or some other seizure disorder, say a plaintiff’s lawyers. The diagnoses disrupted their lives, forcing them to take medicines they didn’t need and to undergo further tests during repeat visits
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