November 23, 2022
(Politico) – Le Vigan, which has a population of about 4,000 and nestles in a valley at the southern end of the Massif Central, is not the only French town struggling to attract doctors. But the scale of the challenges … Read More
November 17, 2022
(MedPage Today) – How did former nurse Charles Cullen get away with murdering dozens, and possibly hundreds, of patients during his 16-year career? The new Netflix documentary “Capturing the Killer Nurse” places the blame squarely on hospital administrators determined to … Read More
November 17, 2022
(STAT News) – The increased stress doctors have faced throughout the Covid-19 pandemic is making some feel like they are providing worse patient care, according to a new survey of primary care physicians from 10 wealthy countries. Younger doctors also … Read More
November 16, 2022
(The Atlantic) – A year and a half in, however, open notes don’t seem to have done too much of anything. So far, they have neither revolutionized patient care nor sunk America’s medical establishment. Instead, doctors say, open notes have … Read More
November 16, 2022
Nursing Ethics (vol. 29, no. 6, 2022) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Moral Distress among Critical Care Nurses: A Cross-Cultural Comparison” by Kaoru Ashida, et al. “Profiling Nursing Students’ dishonest Behaviour: Classroom versus Clinical Settings” by Robert … Read More
November 10, 2022
(Wall Street Journal) – High rates of hospitalization with RSV are hitting the youngest children especially hard, part of an unseasonably early surge in respiratory infections. Some 3.0 people for every 100,000 were hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus the week … Read More
November 9, 2022
(The Guardian) – Nurses have voted to stage strikes across the UK for the first time in their history in pursuit of a better pay deal, in a move that will seriously disrupt NHS care. The Royal College of Nursing … Read More
November 7, 2022
(Kaiser Health News) – Commercial insurers pay handsomely for inpatient care, with room rates often hitting several thousand dollars a day — and that doesn’t include the charges that inevitably follow for bloodwork, consultations, and other exams that typically occur. … Read More
November 4, 2022
(Wall Street Journal) – America’s hospital chains faced unprecedented strains during the pandemic and are pleading poverty. The view from Wall Street is more upbeat. Just last week, industry lobbyists asked Congress for more aid in a letter that painted … Read More
November 3, 2022
(STAT News) – Children’s hospitals — including Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, where I work — are designed, staffed, and supplied to take care of critically sick kids, including top-notch emergency care. But many families don’t have access to children’s … Read More
