In the Trenches: The Visiting Nurse: Soldiering On, Home to Home, in a Squeezed Health System
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Annelisa Purdie is an administrator, a teacher, scold, backstop, cheerleader â within the limited number of visits allotted by insurance.
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Americans are burdened with a costly, hugely dysfunctional health-care system. In a new book, a pair of investigative reporters offers a fresh remedy based on a successful model we're all familiar with
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Your next doctor could be keeping an eye on you from afar - via a camera and a bank of computer screens. An expanding number of hospitals are adopting technology that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much as an air traffic controller keeps track of several planes.
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An inquest into the death of nurse finds shortcomings in standards of care expected in a major teaching hospital.
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Our health care system is a frustrating mix of routine miracles and scandalous failures. The miracles abound; Bill Clintonâs recent open-heart surgery was cutting-edge a few decades ago.
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In todayÂs world of rapid-fire medicine, ÂinvolvedÂ relatives may be a patientÂs most important advocates.
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A mother tells how she was forced to travel miles from home in severe pain and wait 23 hours for a hospital bed.
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The best strategies for coping with electronic overload.
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Ke'tavious Johnson has spent half his two years in a hospital, getting poked and prodded by doctors and nurses trying to keep him alive. He still hasn't gotten used to it.
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Medical care was at times so scarce and shabby that it became another kind of abuse. An inside look
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When a massive tsunami crashed into Sumatra more than two weeks ago, nurses at the Banda Aceh Hospital for the Mentally Ill unlocked the doors and let the patients wander off.
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Reader Sunaina Yadav shares her experiences.
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I have spent most of the past three weeks inside a hospital room, watching a person I love fight for his life. It is in this frame of mind - raging helplessly against the ever-mutating cleverness of disease
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"Even if you are a refugee, there is nobody who cannot access health care in the U.K."  When Penny Campbell fell ill after a routine surgery in March 2005, the 41-year-old mother did what many Britons are instructed to do to avoid clogging up the country's emergency rooms: She called a telephone help line staffed by doctors.With worsening symptoms over the next four days, Campbell spoke to six doctors and saw two in person. When she was finally diagnosed with a blood infection, it was too late: Hours later, Campbell died from multi-organ failure.A government report blames a 'major systems failure' in the socialized health service's ability to access care outside doctors' normal working hours. The case stands in contrast to the praise lavished on Europe's socialized health systems in Michael Moore's new documentary, 'Sicko,' opening nationally this weekend. Read more
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(Source: AT&T)  Hospitals used to be slowed down by paper. But by bolstering digital databases and wireless capabilities, everyone can work more efficiently.
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Remote-monitoring systems will allow those with chronic health problems to have their conditions constantly monitored as they go about their daily lives.
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Read this resource to find out how St. Clare's Hospital implemented a device that would allow caregivers focus on providing medical care rather than managing medical records.