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Medical Notes: January 2, 2022

>> January 2, 2022

A few weeks ago we reported on the challenges facing rural hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic. But a new study in the journal JAMA Network Open finds that patients showing up at rural hospital ERs have extremely similar outcomes compared to patients in …

Exhaustion on the Covid Front Lines

>> February 7, 2021

Healthcare workers in ER’s and ICU’s are in their 11th month of fighting Covid-19 and its exhaustion and depression. Two front line doctors describe how they’re managing to stay optimistic amid so much chaos, and how the vaccine has given them a goal keeping …