As a practicing physician, I am interested in limiting bad habits that undermine my patients’ health and lead to life-threatening events. This is why I am against fast-food bacon cheeseburgers and why I hate to see gas-guzzling cars pouring out blue smoke into the common sky. I have treated many patients who ate one too many hot dogs at a ball game only to arrive at the ER with a heart attack.
A Beckley doctor pushed back Thursday on a new report calling into question an alternative pain management treatment to pills. According to Dr. Andrew Thymius with the West Virginia Pain Institute, Spinal cord stimulators are used frequently in Southern West Virginia to treat pain. They work by blocking the pain signals to the brain.
A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. At Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, ensuring the alignment of all these things to provide extraordinary care requires a constant regimented focus across our 23 hospitals, 170 clinics, and 850,000-member health insurance plan.
Most children hate going to the doctor to get a shot. Now, nearly 2,000 kids in South Carolina have to return to get the same injections a second time. That’s what one of South Carolina’s largest health care providers wrote to Upstate parents when alerting them their children might not have been fully immunized during a previous injection.
For trauma surgeon Joseph Sakran, gun violence is a very personal issue. He has treated hundreds of gun wound victims, comforted anxious loved ones and told mothers and fathers that their children would not be coming home. But Sakran's empathy for his patients and their families extends beyond the hospital.
Sandra Vázquez paced the heart unit at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. Her 5-month-old son, Sebastián Vixtha, lay unconscious in his hospital crib, breathing faintly through a tube. Two surgeries to fix his heart had failed, even the one that was supposed to be straightforward.