According to the MNA, the three-year contracts for nurses in the Twin Cities and Twin Ports include language to address understaffing, one of the union's main negotiation points. The tentative agreements also include 18% pay raises for Twin Cities nurses and 17% raises for nurses in the Twin Ports.
Inspectors found that an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn hospital made numerous errors in administering epidurals. Some were life-threatening. One was fatal.
Many doctors worry that the drugs' current popularity, fueled in part by social media, has resulted in people taking them without sufficient medical supervision.
