In A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemmingway details his time in Paris in the 1920s, dedicating a section to his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this part, Gatsby's creator is depicted as, among other things, a hypochondriac. In one of Fitzgerald's dramatic fits, he insists on going to the American Hospital in Paris because, "I don't want a dirty French provincial doctor." Nearly 100 years later, the American Hospital in Paris continues to thrive. On its staff are eight American doctors as well as 378 European ones. It is the only hospital in Europe where a doctor can practice with a U.S. medical license. American doctors hoping to work in Europe would normally have to re-do their residencies before practicing independently.
Brigham and Women's Hospital has notified patients that their medical information may have been compromised. A laptop computer and cell phone of a BWH physician was stolen in an armed robbery on Sept. 24, a release said. The data on the devices held information of 999 patients who were treated in Neurology and Neurosurgery programs between Oct. 2011 and Sept. 2014, along with some individuals involved in research studies, according to the hospital. The assailants reportedly forced the victim to disclose pass codes to the devices during the robbery.
By the time he got to Nebraska, Dr. Martin Salia was unconscious, struggling to breathe and his kidneys had failed. The medical team at Nebraska Medical Center, experienced from saving the lives of two previous patients, swung into action, pumping Salia full of salt water and vital compounds to replace lost fluids, working to save his kidneys with dialysis, helping him to breathe with a ventilator. They gave him blood serum full of antibodies from one of the eight U.S. survivors — they didn't say which one — and scraped up a dose of the rare experimental treatment ZMapp. But Salia died Monday, despite this "truly heroic effort," said Dr. Jeffrey Gold, chancellor of the University of Nebraska's medical center.
HealthCare.gov got steady consumer interest and also hit a bump Monday, the first weekday of the new sign-up season under the president's health overhaul. Consumers trying to open their existing accounts on the website got this message off and on during the afternoon: "HealthCare.gov has a lot of visitors right now! We need you to wait here, so we can make sure there's enough room for you to have a good experience on our site." At other times, this message was displayed: "We're busy making HealthCare.gov even better! Sorry you can't get what you need right now. Please come back and visit again later."
Some 56% of Americans disapprove of Obamacare, the most ever, a Gallup poll released Monday shows. A record-low 37% of those surveyed support the health reform law. The poll was released two days after health insurance enrollment began for 2015 and a week after the midterm election, where Republicans retook the Senate. Several Republicans, including the leaders of the House and Senate, have called for overhauling or repealing Obamacare. Obamacare fans have not outpolled foes since early 2013. The latest dip in the approval rating could signal a loss of faith in health reform after the midterm election, Gallup said.
Although Americans are signing up for health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges for the second year, there is some uncertainty in the law's future, with legal and legislative challenges ahead. This article discusses five things to know about the law's future in the current political climate. Justices have already ruled on Obamacare twice, once in June of 2012 when they upheld the individual mandate, and again this past June when they said that the administration must exempt closely-held firms with religious objections from a rule requiring large companies to pay for their employees' birth control.