When it comes to wasting food, hospitals are one of the most egregious culprits, with two to three times more waste than other food service sectors. UC San Francisco Medical Center, however, has found that one change cut the amount of food it wastes by 30%. It now serves food on-demand.
For transgender, nonbinary and gender diverse individuals, gender identity carries with it a host of medical, social and emotional issues that aren’t always fully addressed by the healthcare system. Santa Clara Valley Medical Center’s new Gender Health Center aims to provide services for these populations under one roof at the downtown San Jose facility.
President Trump remains in “good health” and has not had any major changes to his health status in the past year, according to a memorandum signed by his doctor and released Thursday by the White House. After gaining four pounds over the past year, Trump is officially considered obese.
The halls of Copper Basin Medical Center are as cold and still as a corpse. Hospital supplies that may never be used — scrubs, gloves, catheters and oxygen masks — sit half-packed in cardboard boxes along walls of a darkened central hallway. Decades of medical records, color-coded in manila folders, wait to be transferred to somewhere else.
Many say a controversial program designed to help doctors with mental health issues is out of control, destroying careers and causing some doctors to commit suicide.
Nearing the end of my career, I’ve been inundated with examples of my colleagues practicing “outside” their training, board certification and “scope of practice.” I am concerned about this “practice drift” towards lucrative, cash-based procedures performed in physician offices. “Practice drift” may occur in three ways.