Category: Healthcare Providers
Medical Staffing Companies Cut Doctors’ Pay While Spending Millions on Political Ads
While cutting benefits for ER doctors and other medical workers, The companies spent millions on ads targeting legislation to cap out-of-network costs.
Lost On The Frontline
“Lost on the Frontline”, a Guardian and Kaiser Health News collaboration, aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who die from COVID-19.
She Came to New York to Help Fight COVID. She Walked Into a “War Movie.”
My first day in the ER was unlike anything I’d ever witnessed: a mix of a TV show like “Grey’s Anatomy” and something out of a triage tent in a war movie.
‘It’s Like Walking Into Chernobyl,’ One Doctor Says Of Her ER
Health workers say they’re exhausted and burning out from the stress of treating a stream of critically ill patients in an overstretched health care system.
Pharmacy Workers Are Coming Down With COVID-19. But They Can’t Afford to Stop Working.
As prescriptions surge, Walgreens and CVS employees say they need more protective gear, cleaning supplies and sick pay.
‘We don’t talk in terms of supply numbers, we talk in terms of days’
One of a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers operating on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Expired Respirators. Reused Masks. Nurses in the Nation’s Original Covid-19 Epicenter Offer Sobering Accounts of What Could Come.
The complaints from Washington also show the increasing sense of fear, frustration and powerlessness many nurses and other medical workers feel as COVID-19 pummels the health care system.
Retired Doctors And Nurses Don Scrubs Again to Join Coronavirus Fight
Anticipating a shortage of medical personnel to treat the influx of sick patients, officials put out a call for retired doctors, nurses and other medical professionals to work.
‘My first question every time I see a new patient now is: Could this be COVID-19?’ A Seattle doctor on the frontlines.
A Seattle doctor on the frontlines Nicholas Johnson, University of Washington Inside, as usual, patient beds are near capacity, and the emergency department is filled with not only the usual mix of patients with trauma, stroke, chest pain and other…
Seattle Nurses Scrounge For Masks To Stay Safe On Pandemic’s Front Lines
At some hospitals, staff said they are being told that, contrary to standard protocol of disposal after a single use, they should clean and reuse masks,
Coronavirus: should frontline doctors and nurses get preferential treatment?
Should a health worker who contracted coronavirus while working on the front line of the health system get preferential treatment if care is being rationed?
When your doctor is also a lobbyist: Inside the war over surprise medical bills
As surprise medical billing has emerged as a hot-button issue for voters, doctors, hospitals and insurers have been lobbying to protect their own money flows.
Docs Decry ‘Moral Injury’ From Financial Pressures Of Health Care
Moral injury refers to the emotional, physical and spiritual harm people feel after doing things that transgress their moral beliefs.
Northwest Kidney Centers names Rebecca Cofinas Fox president and CEO
Fox will start work at Northwest Kidney Centers March 23. She becomes the fourth CEO in the organization’s history
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