A highly-anticipated murder trial begins in Columbus on Feb. 14 for an Ohio doctor suspected of causing nearly three dozen patient deaths through excessive, fatal doses of opioids. Thirty-five patients died under Dr. William Husel’s care at Mount Carmel West Medical...
Nurses and others dealing with burnout are in a difficult position right now. Hospitals are overwhelmed due to a variety of issues including a peaking cold and flu season and a mass exodus from the career by health care professionals who have been overwhelmed and...
Imagine feeling under the weather. You might develop a fever or pain that is out of the ordinary. After hours of waiting to see if you’ll start to feel better, you realize that you’re only getting worse. So, you go to the hospital emergency room for tests. There, it...
Surgical operations can remove tumors, repair traumatic damage and even replace a joint that no longer functions. When properly performed, surgeries can correct medical issues or improve someone's quality of life, all with minimal pain despite how invasive the...
All doctors keep notes on their patients. The notes they keep may include diagnostic findings, test results and more. As a patient, it is always smart to look at those notes and to make sure you understand what the findings state. Simply reviewing test results, and...
A job in medicine is a high-demand career. Physicians work long hours and often have to makes sense of seemingly unconnected symptoms to help diagnose their patients. Unfortunately, physicians are often under intense pressure as employees of large, corporate medical...
It’s always a risk that a medical provider could miss the symptoms and signs of a serious illness, but it shouldn’t be. Those who take their training seriously and who focus their time on really listening to their patients should be able to identify symptoms of...
The elderly and patients with paralysis or other illnesses may not be able to move around as much as they once did. They may be bedbound or in a wheelchair for many hours a day. They might need help to roll over or move in any way. Unfortunately, when one area of the...
Opiate medication revolutionized the medical world more than a century ago. Synthetic opioids that use the same biological processes as naturally derived opiates have created a second revolution in modern pain management practices. Modern opioid drugs are more...
Most people won’t go to the emergency room for a stomachache. For those patients who see their general practitioners, medications might be prescribed to treat reflux or other common conditions. Unfortunately, sometimes stomach pain can be referred and may be a symptom...
