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Addressing Post Intensive Care Syndrome – Humanizing the ICU

>> December 5, 2021

Medicine in intensive care units (ICU) has become so technically focused that many doctors believe they’ve lost their connection with the humanity of patients. The result is a high degree of post-ICU PTSD, also known as post intensive care syndrome …

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Medical Notes: Week of February 9, 2020

>> February 9, 2020

One of the objectives of the Affordable Care Act, when it went into effect in 2014, was to reduce racial and ethnic differences in who can get insurance. Now an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund shows that the ACA has done just that. The report finds that …

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Doing Too Much for Terminal Patients: A Better Path to the End of Life

>> April 30, 2017

Doctors often take extreme measures to save patients who are dying, and who might wish to die in peace. A critical care physician discusses how doctors are learning to resist their impulses to over-treat. Guest Information: Dr. Jessica Zitter, author, Extreme …

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Drug Shortages

>> April 10, 2016

For more than 10 years, hospitals have been plagued by shortages of important drugs, sometimes forcing doctors to decide who will receive them, and who will die. Experts explain why these drug shortages occur, the unfortunate outcomes, and what they do to try …

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