You might assume that standard medical advice was supported by mounds of scientific research. But researchers recently discovered that nearly 400 routine practices were flatly contradicted by studies published in leading journals.
Kaylee Patterson woke with a sharp pain in her right eye the morning after she had Lasik surgery. She felt a dull ache on one side of her face. Worried, Ms. Patterson visited her surgeon and her regular eye doctor several times over the next few weeks.
Seattle Children’s Hospital has closed all its main operating rooms due to a mold called Aspergillus, hospital spokeswoman Kathryn Mueller said. Aspergillus, a fungus that can cause infections, was discovered in several operating and equipment storage rooms in mid-May.
An African American man recovering from pneumonia says he was arrested after a white security guard and police officers racially profiled him when he went for a walk on his doctor's orders outside a northern Illinois hospital while attached to an IV machine and wearing a hospital gown.
A man has been found guilty of falsely reporting an active shooter at a California hospital. KERO-TV reported Thursday that Mario Thompson faces up to a year in jail for the August 2018 report at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield.
When asked why they enter the medical field, 75 percent of medical students, residents and physicians said it was to help people. Even though this career is derived from the passion to help others, physicians are among one of the top professions to have a high rate of professional burnout, depressive symptoms and susceptible to suicide. So, what is professional burnout, what causes medical professionals to develop it, what does it do to them and how can it be treated?