hospitals
New Orleans ER Workers Say Hospitals Are Verging on 'Systemic Collapse'
In Louisiana, COVID-19 is spreading faster than it has anywhere else in the world. The state is home to some of the nation's sickest and poorest people, and health care professionals fear the virus will overwhelm emergency resources in as soon as a week.
New York Plans to Convert Javits Center Into a Field Hospital As Coronavirus Cases Jump by Thousands Overnight
New York state now has more than 10,000 confirmed cases.
A Day in the Life of a Registered Nurse Who Thinks She Has Coronavirus
There's a lot of patients who we presumed have corona but we couldn't test them. We had to send them home and say, "Rest and fluids and come back if you feel like you’re dying."
TV Doctors Are Now Donating Their Medical Supplies to Real-Life Hospitals
As real life supplies dwindle, producers from medical dramas 'The Resident' and 'Station 19' have donated their masks and other items.
U.S. Hospitals Are Wildly Unprepared to Deal With How Bad the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Get
“What's the point of testing if they're not going to get admitted to the hospital?”
As Hospitals Prepare for COVID-19, Life-Saving Trans Surgeries Are Delayed
Though medical facilities may soon become overtaxed for everyone, the coronavirus pandemic has shed light on how transgender people's care can be treated as "non-essential."
Coronavirus Didn't Stop This Texas Town From Holding Their Rattlesnake Roundup
“This event brings $8.4 million to this economy in one week.”
A Lot of Medical Providers Think They 'Know When Y'all Are Faking'
That has a lot to do with why women of color and transgender women don't get the care they need.
Rich Investors Were Supposed to Save This Hospital. Instead They Helped Destroy It.
There's not much stopping private equity titans from buying distressed hospitals and replacing them with luxury condos.
Everything But Brexit III: More Terrible Stuff the Government Has Done Recently
It's not just Brexit – there are many ways that the country is disintegrating around us.
10,000 NYC nurses are about to go on strike over understaffing
Nurses at New York City’s three largest hospital systems are prepared to walk out if no deal is reached by April 2
Catheters Are Causing Serious Problems in Hospitals
Around a third of people catheterized will develop bacteria in their urine, and a quarter will develop symptoms of a catheter-associated UTI.