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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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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Secret recordings captured physicians’ concerns that more children seemed to fare poorly after heart surgery. Their hospital kept doing the operations
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When Medical Schools Become Less DiverseApril 17, 2019 |
Texas Tech recently announced it will no longer take race into account in admissions to its medical school—a move that might affect not only aspiring doctors, but many of their would-be patients as well
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Criminal charges for a medical error are unusual, patient safety experts say. Some are voicing concern that the move sets a precedent that may actually make hospitals less safe by making people hesitant to report errors
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In new research published today in NPJ Digital Medicine, scientists at Cornell University trained an off-the-shelf Google deep learning algorithm to identify IVF embryos as either good, fair, or poor based on the likelihood each one would successfully implant
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Hospital Mergers Improve Health? Evidence Shows the OppositeFebruary 12, 2019 |
The claim was that larger organizations would be able to harness economies of scale and offer better care
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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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