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Before I knew it I was getting the V.I.P. treatment: given a private room, sent for a lot of tests, strapped to a cardiac monitor overnight and visited by several consultants and the hospital president. Read more…
It’s long been known that hospitals can be the source of illness. But post-hospital syndrome is something different and more ominous. Read more…
Hospitals face mounting pressure to reduce readmission rates, but many factors, including the support available at home, can upend the best of efforts. Read more…
Surgeons and other doctors are experimenting with the devices, recording and streaming procedures and looking up data. Read more…
Getting mad at cancer is pointless, but now I have another target for my anger: the negligent care my friend received. Read more…
Every patient needs a moment alone, as one woman with a terminal illness and a large band of affectionate relatives made clear. Read more…
A new analysis suggests that giving birth in a hospital is considerably safer than having a baby at home or in a birth center. Read more…
Some fragile survivors of intensive, expensive treatments are like a house of cards, their health collapsing under even a minor stress. Read more…
In-hospital mortality after an acute heart attack has dropped 10-fold, from 30 percent to 3 percent, since the invention of the modern cardiac care unit in the 1960s. Can shaving a few more minutes off the time it takes to get hospital treatment possibly yield any additional benefit? Read more…
Can you solve a medical mystery involving a 25-year-old man who becomes sweaty and nauseated and starts vomiting uncontrollably every few weeks? Read more…
Shopping carts might not seem a particularly dangerous place for a child, but from 1990 to 2011, an average of 66 children a day wound up in emergency rooms after injuries sustained in and near them. Read more…
Doctors negotiate every day, almost constantly, yet they receive almost no formal instruction in how to do so. Read more…
Can you solve a medical mystery involving a 9-year-old boy with a high fever, a single swollen gland and no obvious source of infection? Read more…
Safety measures by the makers of children’s cough and cold medicines have decreased emergency visits by toddlers with suspected medical problems after using these drugs, government researchers found. Read more…
A critical component to true health care reform is in changing our core expectations about the use of heroic measures at the end of life. Read more…