"No doctor has ever reminded me that I am black before,” the patient said, laughing and nodding his head to let me know he appreciated my advice. Just as he was startled by my open recognition of his race, so too was I startled by his reaction.
Amber Gorrow is afraid to leave her house with her infant son because she lives at the epicenter of Washington state’s worst measles outbreak in more than two decades. Born eight weeks ago, Leon is too young to get his first measles shot, putting him at risk for the highly contagious respiratory virus, which can be fatal in small children.
Flu season is upon us and a lot of people are going to the doctor to get checked out, but there's an alternative way to be treated if you're sick; at home care. It's just like when doctors used to make house calls. DispatchHealth has an office in Houston that serves patients of all ages.
When tennis star Andy Murray posted a hospital photo to Instagram last week, the pushback was swift. Not for the overshare, but for what some doctors said were medical errors, including misplaced IVs and unshaven arm hair. The British doctors who treated him insisted the procedures were, in fact, up to code.
I doubt this weekend is the first time anyone has laid eyes on the racist picture published on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page. Yet over the past few decades, the offensive photograph had not created any obstacles for the doctor-turned-civil servant as he pursued a career in pediatric neurology.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison plastic surgeon who was the subject of a sexual misconduct case in New York before being hired by the university has been accused in a lawsuit of sexual exploitation and medical negligence in his care of a woman who had undergone cosmetic surgery procedures by him last year. The patient, Keri Anne Connaughty of Wausau, had gone to UW plastic surgeon John Siebert for a tummy tuck and breast augmentation surgery.