When Maggie Miller’s husband, Ron, collapsed at their Pickens County home last month two days after same-day surgery, an ambulance rushed him to Prisma Health Baptist Easley Hospital. In the ER, the doctor concluded that the 80-year-old needed to be admitted.
Eric Topol is an American cardiologist and geneticist – among his many roles he is founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California. He has previously published two books on the potential for big data and tech to transform medicine, with his third, Deep Medicine, looking at the role that artificial intelligence might play.
High total and bad cholesterol (LDL) are both major risk factors for atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries/plaque). This disease can cause slowly enlarging partial blockages in coronary arteries, which can result in angina (chest pain with exertion). When coronary plaque ruptures suddenly, the resultant blood clot totally blocks the artery, resulting in a heart attack, 20 percent of which are fatal.
The city and 10 hospitals, including Johns Hopkins Hospital and University of Maryland Medical Center, are partnering to provide housing and services for 200 people and families, a program they hope will be a model for ending homelessness. The aim of the two-year pilot effort is to show that its “wraparound” treatment keeps people healthy, productive and in permanent homes. Leaders also hope to show the program is sustainable because they say it will reduce health-care spending over time.
As a father, physician and Oklahoman, I am compelled to be a voice and an advocate for Medicaid expansion. I am called to fight for the needs of families, neighbors and those on the margins of society. As a physician, I took an oath to “first, do no harm.” Without Medicaid expansion, we are quickly approaching the threshold of harm. Many have already been affected, and some harmed, by lack of access to proper health care.
Seattle Children’s hospital revealed Tuesday that one patient has died and five others have been infected by a potentially dangerous mold that has forced the medical center to indefinitely close all of its main operating rooms.