Nine months after the birth of her daughter Cali, Delfina Mota vividly recalls the horrible pain of her C-section delivery, without anesthesia. "Once I felt it, I was just screaming like, 'Stop. I can feel it. I can feel it.’ And after that, I'm pretty sure I passed out from the pain," Mota told NBC Investigates in her first public interview about baby Cali’s birth.
Women who show up in the emergency room with a heart attack are less likely to die if they are treated by a female physician rather than a male, a new study finds. Researchers scrutinizing data from nearly 582,000 heart attack patients found that women treated by male doctors were 1.52 percent less likely to survive than men treated by female doctors, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
On the night of April 20, Chicago White Sox pitcher Danny Farquhar collapsed in the dugout after pitching the sixth inning against the Houston Astros. That’s when the White Sox medical staff sprang into action.
When a woman needed an emergency caesarean section at an Oceanside hospital last year, the anesthesiologist could not be quickly found — so the surgery was done without anesthesia, according to the woman, her fiance and their lawsuit.
Mary Bassett, who as New York City’s top doctor has navigated epidemics and outbreaks, tried to narrow health inequities and, most recently, fielded questions over the city’s handling of lead exposure in children, announced Thursday she is leaving the de Blasio administration at the end of the month for a job at Harvard.
After being deemed high risk in January, the flagship Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Washington has continued to deteriorate in quality during the first six months of 2018.