Patient failing fast
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The evening nurse assigned to Ethel June Morris was forced to curtail her assessment when the patient&#39;s condition began to deteriorate.
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Researchers have turned their attention to patients that develop a form of plaque prone to inflammation and rupture.
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Sometimes, it is only when the patient is halfway out the door that important information spills out.
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A new method of diagnosing heart disease takes only seconds to conduct, but critics say the technique is ripe for overuse.
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.
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More must be done to ensure patients do not stay in hospital longer than needed, a report finds.
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This lung cancer drug is not as effective as once hoped.
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Workload and doctors who don&#39;t have enough time for patients are cited as causes of medical errors. By Lee Bowman / Scripps Howard News Service.
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Millions of people with chest pain enter emergency room limbo, spending up to 24 hours waiting for tests to tell if a heart attack really is brewing or if it's something less dire.
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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Treatment errors often leave patients and families feeling guilty and afraid.
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His recovery was slowed because of an infection, but a man who once weighed half a ton may soon leave a hospital after losing more than 450 pounds.
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She was overweight, physically inactive, a 23-year-old with a family history of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. &quot;Just walking up the stairs was tough,&quot; she says.
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In the months before she wound up in the emergency room, Deborah Turner was so exhausted she sometimes had to drag herself up the office stairs clinging to the railing. How, she wondered, had things gotten so bad? Four years earlier she had walked a 26.2-mile marathon. Now she was so short of bre...
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The big Mac needs some slack before he comes back from a recent   exhaustion attack.
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Before me lies the patient, a Gateway computer running Windows 98. It is suffering from extremely clogged Internet arteries, unable to reach the Web. As one of The Washington Post's digital doctors, my task is to nurse the machine back to health so my colleague Kathleen Day can access her e-mail and file stories from home.
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People with slower reaction times and bad memories are more likely to die from a heart attack, a study suggests.