I’ve been hospitalized once in my life, four years ago, and ever since then a very specific question has rattled around my brain, fruitlessly seeking an answer: Why are hospitals designed to allow patients as little sleep as possible? Is my phrasing a little too aggressive? Designed to prevent sleep? Maybe that’s going a tiny bit too far. Instead let’s say: Why do the people who design hospitals not give a rat’s ass about patients getting any sleep?
Shahzad Bhat, 53, was working at the MGM Mansion in Las Vegas when his doctor gave him three months to live in October 2017. There were no more treatments available for his aggressive form of lymphoma. Like some of the elite gamblers who stayed at the casino, Bhat got lucky. A day before his appointment, an experimental cancer drug from Gilead Sciences Inc.
More information on the Legionnaires' outbreak at UW Hospital is expected on Friday, Dec. 7. In a release from the hospital, it's waiting for test results to be verified. NBC15 first learned about the outbreak on Nov. 28. It was reported after a water treatment system, designed to keep levels low, was recently adjusted and may have compromised its function.
A new study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine has found that surrogates’ confidence in their ability to make treatment decisions on patients’ behalf far exceeded their actual knowledge of the patients’ preferences. Surrogates are individuals, often spouses or partners, designated to make medical decisions on patients’ behalf if they are unable to do so.
Yard signs are cropping up like it’s political season against the NCH Healthcare System and its plan to limit which doctors can admit patients to its hospitals. The 400 yard signs are part of a campaign by people who are angry that NCH intends to take away their independent primary-care physicians' option to admit patients and direct their care while hospitalized.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center was not upfront with the county medical examiner about a deadly medication error when a patient died after being accidentally injected with a paralyzing anesthetic, according to a recent federal investigation report. The patient, who has not been publicly identified, died last December after a nurse intended to give them a routine sedative but instead injected vecuronium, a powerful drug used to keep patients still during surgery.