Opinion | Patients Are Dying in Emergency Department Waiting Rooms
A special session of Congress was called 35 years ago to make lawmakers and the public aware of stories of patients left to die in hospital parking lots for lack of insurance. Around the time of that congressional testimony, called “Equal Access to Health Care: Patient Dumping,” a new guarantee came about: that any individual […]
PCOS Pain Caused Kelly Ripa to Pass Out During Sex
In an upcoming memoir, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, daytime talk-show host Kelly Ripa shares a story that has many people talking. The story, outlined in Haute Living, is in a chapter entitled “Don’t Let Your Husband Pick Your Death Clothes.” As Ripa related, in 1997 as a new mother she passed out during sex […]
The Cult of Superstar Doctors
[embedded content] In this video, Rohin Francis, MBBS, discusses three stories of controversial figures in the field of regenerative medicine. The following is a partial transcript of this video; note that errors are possible. Francis: The trial of disgraced surgeon Paolo Macchiarini is due to conclude just a couple of days after I’m recording this. […]