Doctors

One doctor has been unable to treat a patient who has been receiving care for the lingering effects of COVID-19 infection.

To me, the highest honor comes when somebody puts his or her life in your hands. To be a physician or a nurse is, to me, something bigger than a transaction.

On a holiday like New Year's, emergency department staff are entrusted to care for your loved ones and be on our game even if you are not on yours. That's something we take really seriously.

Thankfully, the girl is doing fine, and one of the key reasons that she survived is because her grandmother administered effective first-aid immediately.

"More lockdowns lead to much more non-COVID morbidity and mortality...public policy is being based on erroneous assumptions," the doctor reportedly wrote to local officials.

Frontline workers were left out of Stanford Medical Center's first round of vaccinations as hospital officials chose to vaccinate administrators and doctors "with no in-person patient responsibilities" instead.

"She said she told him, 'thank you for saving my life 20yrs ago, I hope this may help save your life, too.,." her son revealed on Twitter.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has issued recommendations on who should be prioritized for inoculation.

"This stoppage in work force comes at a very crucial time during our COVID surge," said a memo sent to the nursing staff at HCA Healthcare's Riverside Community Hospital.

Joseph Epstein called the incoming First Lady "Kiddo" and said her use of the honorific felt "fraudulent" and "comic."

A panel of medical professionals broke down the injuries suffered by the Wet Bandits in the 1990 holiday classic, to let you know what could happen if your scalp was blowtorched.

The emergency medicine doctor said "we are so tired" after learning of her patient's recent large holiday gathering.

A Texas fertility doctor reportedly claims that he did nothing wrong when he inseminated patients with his own "fresh" sperm after frozen sperm from out-of-state donors failed to work.

The latest warnings follow record current COVID-19 hospitalizations reported for 10 days in a row since November 10.

It certainly looks like we are going to run out of ICU space by Thanksgiving, but the aftermath could be worse.

She compared scenes in "short staffed" hospitals to those in the surrounding communities, where some have ignored social distancing rules.

The hard-hit state is allowing coronavirus-positive health care workers to treat patients in COVID units amid staff shortages at hospitals.

Since the arrival of COVID-19, my patients' anxiety has never been higher. And, like fire needs oxygen, many sleep problems—like insomnia—thrive on anxiety.

For me, as a Black physician, disappointment can feel like I have let a whole community down. I sometimes fear I am perpetuating the very inequities I strive to correct.

The president was reported to have an "ambulatory oxygen saturation level of 95 to 97 percent," on Tuesday, according Dr. Sean Conley.

The Greek doctor reportedly noted "nobody responded in the 24 hours the invitation was published" on social media.

While we're waiting for a vaccine or other effective treatment, remember this is still a crisis for healthcare workers. We're the ones who have to call the daughter, partner, or parent with every death.

At least 43 positive cases have been reported at a hospital in Granada, southern Spain, following the party.

Dr. Ilaria Capua's story and the race to find a coronavirus vaccine both illustrate how important open science is, but also how easily things can go wrong, either because the science is misunderstood—or because people are actually acting outside the contours of the law.

It looks like the unnamed healthcare professional sweat entirely through his scrubs.

"These findings highlight the fact that beanbag munitions can cause serious harm and are not appropriate for use in crowd control," the letter stated.

The vast majority of the Japanese city's hospitals were also rendered non-functioning by the nuclear bomb.

The latest cases include 14 junior residents and two senior residents from the University of Florida Health hospital.

No scary shots can overpower the bravery of a strong dad.

"I would discourage my fellow physicians from being lenient in 'granting exemptions,'" said Dr. Jeffrey A. Linder.