January 14, 2020
(The Guardian) – British families are sending elderly relatives with dementia overseas to Thailand in a small but growing trend. Researchers visiting private care homes in Chiang Mai have found eight homes where guests from the UK are living thousands … Read More
December 23, 2019
(NBC News) – Ten former colleagues of an Ohio physician accused earlier this year of murdering 25 of his hospital patients with excessive doses of pain medicine are standing by him, alleging in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the hospital … Read More
December 5, 2019
(Kaiser Health News) – Although Kleinman’s specialty is studying how patients experience illness, he wasn’t prepared for the roller coaster of family caregiving. Each time he adapted to Joan’s changing condition, another setback would occur, setting off new crises and … Read More
November 26, 2019
(STAT News) – Waiting in the ED isn’t just a stressful test of endurance. It’s a first-order oxymoron. A waiting room in an emergency department? But that’s the warped and inescapable reality. Many institutions and hospital systems have instituted changes … Read More
November 26, 2019
(Wall Street Journal) – Innovations in robotics and genetic engineering, immunotherapy and artificial intelligence are creating opportunities in medicine that seem like science fiction, but none of them will fly without the literal hand-holding that only a flesh-and-blood physician can … Read More
November 12, 2019
(New York Times) – Anyone who has been a caregiver will relate to the unending grind of Joan’s decline, to Kleinman’s exhaustion and to his efforts to keep going. And he’s one of the lucky ones: He has the financial … Read More
November 1, 2019
(The Washington Post) – “California’s right to die law strictly governs the conditions under which terminally ill adult patients with the capacity to make medical decisions can be prescribed an aid-in-dying medication,” Spitzer said in a statement. “That was not … Read More
October 29, 2019
(Kaiser Health News) – Peggy Goebel, a nurse from Windsor, was helping oversee the medical operation, run largely by volunteers who had responded to calls from Goebel or their employers to lend their services. They provided basic care (like making … Read More
September 27, 2019
(The Conversation) – Current legislation guards the right of health-care providers to conscientiously object to participation in MAiD. Nurses who do conscientiously object have a professional obligation to inform their employers of that objection, to report requests for MAiD, and … Read More
September 20, 2019
(Undark) – Medical textbooks like Oxford Medical Education dryly state that “the aim of the ABCDE assessment is to keep the patient alive and achieve the first steps to improvement.” Emergency physicians and nurses across the world use the ABCDE … Read More
