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Another Philadelphia Hospital Announces it’s Closing Its Doors
After serving the Cobb Creek neighborhood for more than 100 years, West Philadelphia’s Mercy Hospital will begin the process of closing its doors to inpatient care. With the announcement of its impending closure, Mercy Hospital joins Philadelphia’s Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital as the third recent health care system in Pennsylvania to cease…
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Patients Plea They’re Not Faking It After Nurses’ TikTok Videos
The social media site TikTok is used to viral attention, however, this time the video-sharing platform is facing backlash as users respond to medical personnel videos mocking patients. Several nurses have come under scrutiny after sharing videos mocking patients and their symptoms on social media. A nurse who goes by D Rose on TikTok shared…
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Electronic Intensive Care Unit Technology (eICU)
The increasing use of electronic Intensive Care Unit technology (eICU) has changed the medical landscape in many ways. Many hospital systems routinely use cameras in the ICU to monitor patients. This means instead of an actual doctor physically examining patients, a caregiver only checks in on them via camera remotely. Information about these practices became…
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Lawsuits For Secret Recording Of Gynecological Procedures
Over eighty women are suing a California hospital for the secret recording of their gynecological surgeries. The recordings filmed activity in three labor and delivery rooms at the Women’s Center at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, California, over a period of more than 11 months beginning in summer 2012. While the hospital set up…
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Nurse Shortage Putting Patients In Danger
Nurses are an incredibly important part of a patient’s care. Nurses generally spend more time with patients than doctors and perform many important medical duties like administering medication. Nurses are most effective when a certain nurse to patient ratio is in place; therefore, when nurses have too many patients to attend to, they are more likely to make mistakes that put patients at risk. Unfortunately for patients, hospitals across America are facing a nurse shortage.
