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    Nurses at Albany Medical Center picketed on Dec.1, asking for more personal protective equipment. They say they're having to reuse N95 masks up to 20 times.
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    For Health Care Workers, The Pandemic Is Fueling Renewed Interest In Unions

    Jan 11, 2021
    Many front-line health workers who have faced a perpetual lack of PPE and inconsistent safety measures believe the government and their employers have failed to protect them from COVID-19.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Dr. Joseph Varon prepares to enter the COVID-19 unit at Houston's United Memorial Medical Center in May. With him are nurses Tanna Ingraham (left) and Jerusha Harshman (right).
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    At Houston Hospital, Head Of COVID-19 Unit Sees Some Staff Wary Of A Vaccine

    Dec 16, 2020
    Dr. Joseph Varon of Houston's United Memorial Medical Center senses distrust for a vaccine among some hospital staff. "They all think it's meant to harm specific sectors of the population," he says.
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    Goats and Soda
    Nurses clap after Kym Villamer and her colleague Dawn Jones sing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" at <a data-cid="12680058537081005198" data-ved="0ahUKEwjSr4K__f_rAhVmUt8KHZI2AFsQyTMIIzAA">New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital's </a>new COVID-19 ward.
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    Family Ordeal Catapults A Young Filipina To The U.S. — And The Pandemic Front Lines

    Sep 24, 2020
    Quimberly 'Kym' Villamer, a nurse at a hospital in New York City, shares what it was like to grow up in the Philippines while her parents worked in the U.S.
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    Siblings Jasmine and Josh Obra both tested positive for the coronavirus on the same day. Only one of them survived.
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    Lives Cut Short: Remembering Health Care Workers In Their 20s Killed By COVID-19

    Aug 13, 2020
    While most people who die from COVID-19 are over 65, health care workers who die are often younger. Here are stories of some who died in their 20s, leaving shattered dreams and devastated families.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Some nursing homes and long-term care facilities say they're struggling to fill shifts as certified nursing assistants opt for unemployment benefits during the pandemic.
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    Nursing Homes Struggle As Staff Choose Unemployment Checks Over Paychecks

    Jun 21, 2020
    Some nursing homes and long-term care facilities say they're struggling to fill shifts as certified nursing assistants opt for unemployment benefits during the pandemic.
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    Shots - Health News
    Physical and occupational therapists carry bags of personal protective equipment on their way to the room of a COVID-19 patient in a Stamford Hospital intensive care unit in Stamford, Conn., on April 24. This "prone team" turns over COVID-19 to help them
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    Hospital ICUs Are Adapting To COVID-19 At 'Light Speed'

    May 05, 2020
    With COVID-19 becoming a critical focus in hospital intensive care units, nurses, doctors and other caregivers have had to shift gears to protect staff and save patients.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Health care workers drive by to express their support for nurses needing personal protective equipment outside the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, Calif., on April 13.
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    Nurses Left Vulnerable To COVID-19: 'We're Not Martyrs Sacrificing Our Lives'

    May 02, 2020
    Many nurses say they've been fighting the coronavirus pandemic without proper safety equipment, and unions and professional groups are demanding change.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    A medical staff member wearing personal protective equipment pushes an empty gurney at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn on April 8. Nurses who gathered in protest outside Kingsbrook earlier this week said a shortage of protective gear at thei
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    Brooklyn Nurses Demand More Gear, Saying Colleagues Have Succumbed To COVID-19

    Apr 16, 2020
    Nurses at one Brooklyn hospital said they need more protective gear as several colleagues have succumbed to COVID-19.
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    Shots - Health News
    Paramedics and hospital workers prepare to lift a COVID-19 patient onto a hospital stretcher outside the Montefiore Medical Center Moses Campus in the Bronx, Tuesday, April 07, 2020, New York City.
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    At Least 9,000 U.S. Health Care Workers Sickened With COVID-19, CDC Data Shows

    Apr 15, 2020
    Newly released data shows the toll the disease is taking on doctors, nurses and other health care workers. Nurses' groups call for increased protection for frontline staff.
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    Goats and Soda
    In 2014, Martha Phillips, an American nurse, traveled to West Africa during the Ebola crisis to provide medical care. Treating Ebola not only taught her how to stay safe around a deadly virus but also how to manage the stress and sadness of working durin
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    Coronavirus Nurses Ask An Ebola Veteran: Is It OK To Be Afraid?

    Apr 13, 2020
    Nothing could have prepared Martha Phillips for her work with Ebola patients in West Africa. Now she is sharing advice with nurses in the U.S. as they tend to those stricken with COVID-19.
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    Nurses' Union Wants More Personal Protective Equipment, Stricter Standards To Combat COVID-19

    Apr 02, 2020

    Registered nurses in Nevada and 14 other states are coming together this week to shine a light on what they call a lack of preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic on the part of hospital parent company HCA Healthcare. National Nurses Unite held events Wednesday at multiple HCA hospitals, including MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas. More actions are planned for Thursday.

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    Shots - Health News
    Mary Mills, longtime intensive care nurse, feels the response to coronavirus at her Seattle hospital has been haphazard. She worries the growing number of patients will overwhelm the ICUs in the coming days.
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    Seattle Nurses Scrounge For Masks To Stay Safe On Pandemic's Front Lines

    Mar 20, 2020
    The first U.S cluster of coronavirus cases began in the Seattle area, and the case count is growing. Now nurses face shortages of protective gear, and confusion and fear about how to stay safe.
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    Shots - Health News
    Some people land in the hospital over and over. Although research suggests that giving those patients extra follow-up care from nurses and social workers won't reduce those extra hospital visits, some hospitals say the approach still saves them money in
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    'To Stop Now Would Be Foolish': Doubling Down On Services For High-Cost Patients

    Jan 22, 2020
    A study this month showed giving extra social services to the neediest patients didn't reduce hospital readmissions. Now health advocates say that might not be the right measurement of success.
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    Shots - Health News
    "The profession we love has been taken over," psychiatrist and novelist Samuel Shem tells NPR, "with us sitting there in front of screens all day, doing data entry in a computer factory."
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    Novelist Doctor Skewers Corporate Medicine In 'Man's 4th Best Hospital'

    Nov 13, 2019
    Samuel Shem's 1978 novel, The House of God, was a sardonic look at U.S. medicine through a young doctor's eyes. Shem's new fiction checks in with the same crew in the age of medicine by smartphone.
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    Goats and Soda
    Nabia Drammeh, 27, a nurse, talks with Maram Ceesay, and her granddaughter, Awa at the Brufut Minor Health Center outside of Banjul, the Gambia. Awa's mother passed away during childbirth leaving her Maram to look after her. The 2-year-old is being treat
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    A Gambian Nurse Fights Pain Without Pills

    Oct 22, 2019
    As the U.S. grapples with the opioid crisis, pain medication is in short supply in some other parts of the world. One nurse in the Gambia explains how she addresses pain with tools other than drugs.
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    Shots - Health News
    Dr. Peter Grinspoon was a practicing physician when he became addicted to opioids. When he got caught, Grinspoon wasn't allowed access to what's now the standard treatment for addiction — buprenorphine or methadone (in addition to counseling) — preci
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    For Health Workers Struggling With Addiction, Why Are Treatment Options Limited?

    Sep 06, 2019
    Doctors and nurses are often barred from turning to FDA-approved medications that research shows to be the most effective way to quit. Critics of that policy say stigma is undermining best practice
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    Goats and Soda
    Twin brothers Ivan (left) and Jose López expect to make about $6 a month each when they start work as nurses this month. To boost their income, they care for elderly individuals living at home.
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    A Doctor Or Nurse Might Earn Just $6 A Month In Venezuela

    Sep 06, 2019
    Thousands of medical workers have left the country. Those who remain at public institutions earn very low wages — and often have to moonlight to make ends meet.
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    Shots - Health News
    Geriatrics is a specialty that should adapt and change with each patient, says physician and author Louise Aronson. "I need to be a different sort of doctor for people at different ages and phases of old age."
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    A Clearer Map For Aging: 'Elderhood' Shows How Geriatricians Help Seniors Thrive

    Jun 17, 2019
    Physician Louise Aronson treats patients who are in their 60s — as well as those who are older than 100. She writes about changing approaches to elder health care in her book Elderhood.
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    'Patients Will Die': One County's Challenge To Trump's 'Conscience Rights' Rule

    Jun 11, 2019
    California's Santa Clara County argues that if the rule goes into effect in July, the county will suffer irreparable harm in terms of patient care and staffing costs.
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    Shots - Health News
    Lenh Vuong, a clinical social worker at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, checks on a former John Doe patient she recently helped identify.
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    How Hospital ER Sleuths Race To Identify An Unconscious Or Dazed Jane Or John Doe

    May 07, 2019
    A public hospital in Los Angeles gets over 1,000 unidentified patients a year. Most are quickly ID'd, but some require considerable gumshoe work — a task often complicated by medical privacy laws.
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    Shots - Health News
    Will computers alienate us from the healing touch?
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    As Artificial Intelligence Moves Into Medicine, The Human Touch Could Be A Casualty

    Apr 30, 2019
    Will AI in health care create a two-tiered system in which poorer people will be seen by a computer instead of a doctor? That's one concern about the burgeoning technology.
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    Shots - Health News
    According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, incidents of serious workplace violence are <a href="https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hospitals/workplace_violence.html">four times</a> more common in health care than in private industry. Most assa
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    Facing Escalating Workplace Violence, Hospital Employees Have Had Enough

    Apr 08, 2019
    U.S. hospitals are under mounting pressure to address violence against health care staff by patients and visitors. Nearly half of emergency doctors say they've been physically assaulted at work.
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    Shots - Health News
    A moment from Embodied Labs' virtual reality video of Clay Crowder, a fictional 66-year-old man with incurable lung cancer. In this scene, Clay's family gathers around his bed, reassuring him that it's OK to let go of life.
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    Virtual Reality Helps Hospice Workers See Life And Death Through A Patient's Eyes

    Dec 27, 2018
    A Maine medical school and nearby hospice center are trying out a VR program aimed at fostering more empathy for dying patients among health workers-in-training. Not everyone is sold on the idea.
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    Shots - Health News

    Nurse Denied Life Insurance Because She Carries Naloxone

    Dec 13, 2018
    The U.S. surgeon general has called on "bystanders" to be equipped with the opioid reversal drug to save lives. But when a nurse answered that call, her application for life insurance was denied. Why?
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    Shots - Health News
    Clinicians and first responders who care for victims of gun violence can suffer what's called vicarious trauma.
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    How Doctors And Nurses Cope With The Human Toll Of Gun Violence

    Nov 14, 2018
    Researchers are trying to understand how exposure to trauma cases affects clinicians and how they can get the mental health care they may need. For now, there are more questions than answers.

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