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?
Doctors should have gotten the message by now that deserting patients is a violation of medical practice standards, not to mention human rights. But they haven't. To the contrary, they've been hearing about other doctors who got raided by Drug Enforcement Agency swat teams, their patients terrorized, medical records seized, and practices ruined by announcements in local news media. Compounding such brutal tactics, chain pharmacies have compiled high prescriber lists, blacklisting "top prescribing" physicians and denying prescription pain medication to their patients.
Missouri's only abortion clinic awaited a decision on Friday whether it can stay open until August, when an arbiter will hear Planned Parenthood’s challenge of the state health department's refusal to renew the clinic’s license.
The new study, published in The Lancet, suggests that the more people who receive the vaccine, the better. That’s because vaccination not only reduces rates of HPV infection and the presence of precancerous cells in the cervix in people who receive the vaccine, it also reduces rates of HPV-related diseases in people who were not vaccinated.