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...
If you have skin cancer, or if you believe that you may, you're likely going to go see a dermatologist. Perhaps you already have one and you can set the meeting up directly, or you may end up going to your primary care physician first and then getting referred to a...
There's a reason monthly medical exams are a staple of prenatal care in the United States. Both pregnancy and the labor process are dangerous for the mother and her unborn child. Once labor begins, the risk of something going wrong increases. When a woman's...
In America, around 300,000 people live with a spinal cord injury. Of those people, only around 3% ever recover the basic functionality that they had before the injury occurred. Many of these patients end up in the hospital for complications of the injury, and they may...
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...
In Ohio, there is the Ohio Move Over law which requires motorists to move over to one lane, or to slow down, when they see any vehicle with flashing lights on the side of the road. The hope is that this law will help protect those in vehicles that have broken down as...
Motor vehicle collisions can cause life-altering injuries. People can hurt their brains or their spinal cords and have permanent functional limitations afterward. There will be extensive trauma and rehabilitation care required for the person to recover. However, some...
If you suffer a spinal cord injury in a collision or as a result of a medical error, then you should know that this is a condition that may impact you for the rest of your life. Many spinal cord injuries do have some recovery, but for the most part, injuries to the...
There is a dangerous syndrome called antiphospholipid syndrome, or Hughes’ Syndrome, which you may have suffered during pregnancy. Not recognizing this condition when it occurs could lead to serious harm coming to the mother or child, which is why it’s so important...
You may know that a misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis could result in serious injuries or deaths, but did you know that there are some situations in which those delays are a result of a cancer being particularly difficult to identify? That doesn’t excuse doctors who...
