Every corner of the hospital prominently features hand sinks, hand sanitizer stations and reminders to wash regularly. And while health care providers are trained to clean up constantly, a new study reveals that patients may be overlooking that responsibility.
Lauren Hollifield doesn't want to do medicine anywhere else. “I would love to stay here. My family is here, my fiancee is here, my sister is in the 2nd class. My fiancee is actually in our class and so my whole community is here,” she told me as we sat outside the UNLV Medical School on Shadow Lane, in the heart of the city’s Medical District.
No sooner had a woman in a hospital gown sat down, that she heard a knock on the door. "Hello, are you Joy?" a man in a lab coat asked as he walked into the exam room. "Sounds like you've been having some trouble with headaches?" "I sure have," Joy said emphatically. "It's a pounding, throbbing pain that won't go away."
Within a decade, a growing shortage of physicians threatens to lengthen the time it takes to get a checkup, schedule an elective surgery or see a specialist. The biggest shortage will be in primary care, or family medicine.
Palliative care is a specialized area of medicine often confused with hospice care, the latter of which is provided when patients no longer receive aggressive therapy. Patients with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses — respiratory disease, heart conditions, cancer or kidney failure — can greatly benefit from palliative care, which places emphasis on symptoms and quality of life through pain management and physical, psychological and spiritual support.
A police officer was shot at an Upstate hospital early Thursday after responding to a report of a man who had a gun, authorities said. State Law Enforcement Division spokesman Thom Berry said police responded shortly after 2 a.m. to a call from staff in the emergency department of Laurens County Memorial Hospital in Clinton.