Author: Patrick Malone

December 20, 2022

In hospitalsā€™ struggles with staffing crises, lessons on reaping and sowing

Big hospitals and hospital chains have wailed, with considerable justification, since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic about financial damages they have suffered due to costly shortages of desperately needed health staff. But the institutions fostered this staffing crisis, with profit-ravenous suits in executive suites boosting hospital bottom lines in …

December 20, 2022

In hospitalsā€™ struggles with staffing crises, lessons on reaping and sowing

Big hospitals and hospital chains have wailed, with considerable justification, since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic about financial damages they have suffered due to costly shortages of desperately needed health staff. But the institutions fostered this staffing crisis, with profit-ravenous suits in executive suites boosting hospital bottom lines in …

December 18, 2022

Misdiagnoses lead to 250,000 ER patientsā€™ deaths annually, U.S. study finds

Doctors working in hospital emergency departments face chaos, violence and high stress every day, and usually they get the diagnosis and treatment right. But, and itā€™s a big but, as often as one in seventeen ER visits ends with a misdiagnosis, which can have deadly consequences. Those medical misdiagnosis are …

December 18, 2022

Misdiagnoses lead to 250,000 ER patientsā€™ deaths annually, U.S. study finds

Doctors working in hospital emergency departments face chaos, violence and high stress every day, and usually they get the diagnosis and treatment right. But, and itā€™s a big but, as often as one in seventeen ER visits ends with a misdiagnosis, which can have deadly consequences. Those medical misdiagnosis are …

December 16, 2022

A holiday health warning to take to heart about drinking

Cardiologists and other doctors have words to the wise for the aging, party-hearty-for-the-holidays crowd: Excessive boozing, as part of their seasonal merry making, puts those who partake of too much liquid cheer at heightened risk of heart problems. The last thing, too, that public safety advocates would want to see …

December 16, 2022

A holiday health warning to take to heart about drinking

Cardiologists and other doctors have words to the wise for the aging, party-hearty-for-the-holidays crowd: Excessive boozing, as part of their seasonal merry making, puts those who partake of too much liquid cheer at heightened risk of heart problems. The last thing, too, that public safety advocates would want to see …

December 14, 2022

Watchdog agency taking fire for big problems safeguarding food and drugs

In regular places, when alarms blare and it becomes clear that a big, important something is broken and threatens folksā€™ well-being, those with common sense race to make needed fixes. Washington, D.C., is different. And members of Congress, the White House, and top federal bureaucrats already may be dodging a …

December 14, 2022

Watchdog agency taking fire for big problems safeguarding food and drugs

In regular places, when alarms blare and it becomes clear that a big, important something is broken and threatens folksā€™ well-being, those with common sense race to make needed fixes. Washington, D.C., is different. And members of Congress, the White House, and top federal bureaucrats already may be dodging a …

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