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Pregnant? How to pack for the hospital

Are you expecting? Due to go into labor soon? The American Pregnancy Association recommends that you have necessary items gathered ahead of time to ... Read More »

Five things to avoid in the emergency room

Some readers may recall the case last year of Edith Rodriguez who was virtually ignored while dying on the floor of an emergency room in LA. It ... Read More »

Wanted: 23 escaped and infectious TB patients

By Friday of last week, 49 patients of Jose Pearson hospital in South Africa escaped medical confinement to spend Christmas with their families. But ... Read More »

Give thanks for your healthy kids

I took my littlest boy to see a movie the other day and a commercial of sorts appeared just before our flick began. It was a motivational bit, shared ... Read More »

Can a celebrity make you feel better about your doctor?

How does a celebrity affect a hospital waiting room? It's an amazing thing really, as this Time article points out. Even a minor celebrity can turn ... Read More »

Celebrating a cancer comeback

My last vivid memory of the beach dates back to March 2005, just after I was discharged from the hospital. I'd been hospitalized for five days for ... Read More »

Hospitals don't want to you to know about their mistakes

We've all heard horror stories of medical mistakes made in hospitals, things like surgeries on the wrong body part, surgeries on the wrong person, and ... Read More »

Overweight, asthmatic kids = possible hospital stay

If your child has been admitted to the emergency room recently, hopefully he or she was not admitted to the hospital for an extended stay as a result. ... Read More »

Heart attacks in kids rare, but possible

It sounds odd that kids in their early teens are having heart attacks, but it's been documented many times. The surprising thing is that most of these ... Read More »

The top 41 hospitals in the U.S.

Sadly, the way the hospital system works most people rarely (if ever) get a choice regarding which hospital they're treated in. It's either an ... Read More »