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<乌鸦传媒>Who Polices Hospitals Merging Across Markets?

States give different answers

<乌鸦传媒>All 乌鸦传媒 Struggle With 'Moral Injury'

We're constantly asked to put other interests ahead of those of our patients, says Wendy Dean

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<乌鸦传媒>Primary Care Follow-Up After Emergency Surgery Tied to Fewer Readmissions

Odds of 30-day readmissions 67% lower for Medicare beneficiaries with follow-up visit

<乌鸦传媒>Nurses Step Up to Bat on Educating Patients About Climate Change

The American Nurses Association pledges to mitigate and help others adapt to climate change

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<乌鸦传媒>'Con Man' Gets Another Top Hospital Job, This Time at Penn Medicine

Story points to major gaps in how hospitals check applicants' backgrounds

<乌鸦传媒>The Cost of Corporatized Medicine

Worse outcomes, increased burnout, and higher costs linked to corporate influence

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<乌鸦传媒>Hospital Mask Mandates Return; COVID Hospitalizations Reach 20K; Ground Beef Recall

Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 乌鸦传媒 staff

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<乌鸦传媒>MedPod Today: New CDC Goals, Hospital Hires AI Job, and Med Student Mental Health

Three 乌鸦传媒 reporters offer further insights on these recently covered topics

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<乌鸦传媒>Is Intracerebral Hemorrhage Risk Shared via Blood Transfusion?

Findings may suggest a transfusion-transmissible agent linked to some types of spontaneous ICH

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<乌鸦传媒>Rural Hospital Turns to GoFundMe to Stay Afloat

"Lives will be lost" if Pennsylvania facility closes, CEO says in crowdfunding campaign

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<乌鸦传媒>MIST Didn't Reduce Death in Preemies With Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Another study shows kids who survive ARDS at high risk of readmissions

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<乌鸦传媒>New Weight-Loss Drugs Spark Debate About Safety During Surgery

Some anesthesiologists think current guidelines don't go far enough

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<乌鸦传媒>Reusable Surgical Head Covers Reduce Emissions, Environmental Impact

After 16 to 19 uses, cloth caps reached a lower carbon footprint than disposable ones

<乌鸦传媒>Mandatory Retirement Age for Physicians: Yea or Nay?

Ron Harman King says age alone is arguably a poor indicator of skill

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<乌鸦传媒>Want to 'Green' Your Healthcare Facility? It's OK to Start Small, Experts Say

Conserving energy and increasing recycling are two good ways to begin, they suggest

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<乌鸦传媒>Gender Clinic's Political Storm; Nursing Pillow Deaths; Drug Price Cut Concerns

This past week in healthcare investigations

<乌鸦传媒>It's Time to Move on From the U.S. News Rankings

The lack of data and transparency should raise questions

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<乌鸦传媒>Company Selling Unproven Insulin Infusions in Legal Battle Over Money, Control

Court docs show firm evolved from Trina, a diabetes scheme that fell apart

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<乌鸦传媒>Trial: ECMO Doesn't Save Lives in Cardiogenic Shock

ECLS-SHOCK trial challenges current practice, guidelines

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<乌鸦传媒>CDC Issues Sepsis Care Guidance for Hospitals

Every hospital can strengthen the quality of care delivered to these patients, says CDC director

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<乌鸦传媒>Masking Approaches in Healthcare Should Be Reconsidered, Experts Say

But not everyone thinks changes are needed yet

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<乌鸦传媒>Kaiser Permanente's National Expansion Faces Wide Skepticism

Health system is promising better, cheaper care

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<乌鸦传媒>Medical Residency: Balancing High Stress and Low Compensation

Rethinking the current status quo of being overworked and underpaid

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<乌鸦传媒>Clot Risk Factors Emerge for Cancer Patients With COVID-19

Immunotherapy in particular linked with 45% higher risk of VTE in hospitalized patients

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<乌鸦传媒>Allina Doctors File to Unionize

Group of more than 550 clinicians could create largest private-sector union in the country

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<乌鸦传媒>Big Bump in Starting Salaries for Specialists

Aging population, rise of 'market disruptors' usher in double-digit jumps for some docs

<乌鸦传媒>Residency: Long Hours and Lifetime Connections

Adriana Wong on bonding with people who "become your friends throughout the years"

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<乌鸦传媒>AI Beat Clinicians at Figuring Out Difficult Diagnoses

GPT-4 may help with diagnoses that have been missed by clinicians, study author says

<乌鸦传媒>How to Practice Self-Care During Residency

"Don't make us work 80 hours a week. That's it," says Jeremy Faust

<乌鸦传媒>America's Growing Lack of Trust in Medicine

Eric Reinhart, MD, on the U.S. and its "horrific public health"

<乌鸦传媒>Petition to End Maintenance of Certification Rallies More Than 10K Signers

Physicians push back on "burdensome, costly" program

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<乌鸦传媒>Nose-Picking Health Workers Had Higher COVID Risk

"Deserves more consideration as a potential health hazard," researchers say

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<乌鸦传媒>U.S. News Releases 'Best Hospitals' Rankings Amid Changes

This year's Honor Roll no longer includes numerical rankings

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<乌鸦传媒>Loma Linda Residents Vote to Unionize, but Still Face Pushback

Medical center says it "will not be bargaining" with union as it continues "legal objections"

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<乌鸦传媒>Insulin Infusion Clinics Claim to Treat Just About Anything

But evidence is scant, and "treatment" resembles one done by company that went bust

<乌鸦传媒>APP Is Latest Physician Staffing Firm to Fold

It follows Envision, and physicians consider further consequences of difficult market

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<乌鸦传媒>'Strike Nurse' or 'Scab'? Nurse Faces Backlash After 'Day-in-the-Life' Video

Resounding criticism of nurse crossing picket line reflects larger workplace issues

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<乌鸦传媒>Machine Learning Model Accurately Identifies High-Risk Surgical Patients

New tool more accurate than existing risk calculator

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<乌鸦传媒>Positive Surgical Margins More Likely Among Black Men With Oral Cancer

Post-operative treatment, long-term survival may be affected

AHNS over a photo of the Montreal Convention Center in Quebec, Canada.

<乌鸦传媒>Oral Cancer Patients Face Worse Outcomes With Delayed Radiation Therapy

Failure to initiate adjuvant radiation therapy within 6 weeks tied to survival rates

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