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Massachusetts Hospitals kürzen Wahlverfahren
Krankenhäuser in Massachusetts werden ab Montag nicht dringend geplante Verfahren wegen Personalmangels und längerer Krankenhausaufenthalte von Patienten nach Angaben der Gesundheitsbehörden des Staates kürzen.
In Massachusetts nehmen die Coronavirus-Fälle seit mehreren Wochen zu, die Krankenhauseinweisungen sind jedoch geringer gestiegen. Der Druck auf die Krankenhäuser beziehe sich auf weitere Folgen der Coronavirus-Pandemie, teilten die Behörden mit.
Der Personalmangel, der hauptsächlich durch die Pandemie verursacht wurde, hat nach Angaben des Bundesstaates zum Verlust von etwa 500 medizinischen, chirurgischen und Intensivpflegebetten in Massachusetts
The Complex Business of Vaccine Mandates
At the start of the American Revolution, ninety per cent of the deaths in the Continental Army were due to disease. Smallpox was especially devastating: nearly a third of those infected died. General George Washington weighed an Army-wide mandate for smallpox inoculation—a procedure with a mortality rate of around two per cent. The mandate was sure to meet resistance, and could signal to the British how beset the Americans were by illness. Still, on February 6, 1777, he sent a
When a Child Is Hospitalized with COVID
Sometime long ago—in early 2020—an infection-prevention specialist came to morning report to review personal protective equipment with the pediatricians at the hospital in San Antonio where I work. She laid out a gown, gloves, an N-95 mask, and a face shield on the table in front of us, then called for a volunteer to practice donning the P.P.E. This was when morning report was a physical gathering in a room, with breakfast tacos. We would all sit elbow to elbow,
Why Hospitals and Health Insurers Didn’t Want You to See Their Prices
This year, the federal government ordered hospitals to begin publishing a prized secret: a complete list of the prices they negotiate with private insurers.
The insurers’ trade association had called the rule unconstitutional and said it would “undermine competitive negotiations.” Four hospital associations jointly sued the government to block it, and appealed when they lost.
They lost again, and seven months later, many hospitals are simply ignoring the requirement and posting nothing.
But data from the hospitals that have complied
What Should Hang on the Walls of a Hospital?
Mid-pandemic, while undergoing a much-delayed Pap smear at a London hospital, and encountering a poster of some tulips that neither uplifted or offended me, I thought of a scene in Ben Lerner’s novel “10:04,” throughout which the protagonist undergoes various vaguely degrading medical experiences. “There was a poster of Picasso’s dove in the first neurologist’s waiting room, watercolors of Manhattan sunsets where they sent him for bloodwork, photographs of orchids where he waited for his CAT scan,” Lerner writes. The