As she got ready to work the breakfast shift at the Medical College of Wisconsin cafeteria, Tiffany Tate didn’t feel well. Tate, 37, was a fixture on the cafeteria’s “hot line,” where she worked behind a steaming grill. She knew the names of many workers and their kids, always sharing smiles and small talk.
Hacienda HealthCare, where a woman in a vegetative state gave birth in December, has agreed to two Arizona agencies’ demand that the Phoenix facility hire a third-party manager. Phoenix police have said the 29-year-old San Carlos Apache Tribe member, incapacitated since she was 3, became pregnant after she was sexually assaulted at the long-term care center.
People without homes often didn't just run out of money; many saw their chances for a safe life derailed by physical and mental illness that does not improve once on the street. With a new federally funded mobile care team, UT-Austin's Dell Medical School, CommUnityCare, and Integral Care can deliver street medicine to manage the chronic health needs that make homelessness even more complex for those living it.
Increasing burnout among physicians is a dire public health crisis, new research out of Harvard says. The paper cites research that nearly half of American doctors experience symptoms of professional burnout. And a 2018 survey found that 78 percent of over 8,000 physicians polled reported feeling burned out at least sometimes.
A widower who lost his wife to a lethal dosage of pain medication while she was hospitalized last year is speaking out against an Ohio doctor who allegedly administered "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of pain medicine to multiple near-death patients.
Close to 44 percent of U.S. physicians are burned out, and 15 percent are depressed and thinking about suicide, according to a survey conducted by Medscape. More than one doctor per day commits suicide - a rate higher than in any other profession and more than twice that of the general population, Medscape reports.