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News Articles: doctors and nurses

Leslie Clayton, a physician assistant in Minnesota, says a name change for her profession is long overdue. "We don't assist," she says. "We provide care as part of a team."

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  • Health

Physician assistants want to be called physician associates, but doctors cry foul

PAs say the new title would clarify that they work in a team and don't require direct oversight by M.D.s. Doctors say it obscures the fact that PAs have less education and training than physicians.

December 03, 2021
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By:
  • Jordan Rau
(from left) Kevin Dedner founded Hurdle, a mental health startup that pairs patients with therapists. Ashlee Wisdom's company, Health in Her Hue, connects women of color with culturally sensitive medical providers. Nathan Pelzer's Clinify Health analyzes data to help doctors identify at-risk patients in underserved areas. Erica Plybeah's firm, MedHaul, arranges transport to medical appointments.

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  • Health

How Black tech entrepreneurs are tackling health care's race gap

Determined to improve the way doctors connect with their patients, a new wave of innovators are using technology to match people of color with culturally competent professionals.

November 29, 2021
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By:
  • Cara Anthony
Left to right: Filipino American health care workers Karen Cantor, Karen Shoker, and John Paul Atienza were among many who cared for COVID patients in the early days of the pandemic.

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  • Health

Filipino American health workers reflect on trauma and healing on COVID's frontlines

They have shouldered an outsize share of COVID-19's burden, statistics show. Many lost family members; others got sick themselves, recovered and carried on. Meet the caregivers.

November 09, 2021
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By:
  • Rosem Morton

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  • Health

Patients say telehealth is OK, but most prefer to see their doctor in person

An NPR poll finds that while a large majority of people using telehealth during the pandemic were satisfied, nearly two-thirds prefer in-person visits. That may foretell telehealth's future.

October 19, 2021
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Hospitals in Idaho, like St. Luke's Boise Medical Center in Boise, remain full after the summer delta surge pushed many to their limits.

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  • Health

With hospitals crowded from COVID, 1 in 5 American families delays health care

Putting off surgeries or routine treatments for serious illnesses has become common during the pandemic, a new NPR/Harvard poll finds.

October 14, 2021
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By:
  • James Dawson
Matthew Crecelius, a traveling contract nurse who has worked in a dozen hospitals since the pandemic began, says that he can recall numerous instances where health care worker burnout has had a direct impact on patient care.

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  • Health Care

Health workers know what good care is. Pandemic burnout is getting in the way

The pandemic has intensified burnout among health care workers. They say it's eroding their passion for the job and the quality of patient care. Here's how some of them are trying to solve it.

October 02, 2021
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo., is implementing a personal panic button system for hundreds of its employees. Assaults of hospital staff tripled from 2019 to 2020, the hospital says.

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  • Health Care

A Hospital Gives Its Staff Panic Buttons After Assaults By Patients Triple

From 2019 to 2020, assaults on hospital staff by patients tripled at Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo. Now personal panic buttons are being implemented to alert hospital security more easily.

September 30, 2021
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Nurse Katrina Philpot (left) protests against COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates in Santa Fe, N.M., in August.

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  • Health

In The Fight Against COVID, Health Workers Aren't Immune To Vaccine Misinformation

About a quarter of U.S. health care workers have refused the COVID-19 vaccine as of July. They share demographic traits with other unvaccinated people and are putting hospitals in a tough spot.

September 18, 2021
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram

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  • Health

COMIC: How One COVID-19 Nurse Navigates Anti-Mask Sentiment

At work every day, Agnes Boisvert attends to ICU patients "gasping for air" and dying from COVID-19. But communicating that harsh reality to her skeptical community has been a challenge.

March 09, 2021
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By:
  • Ryan Kellman,
  • Nathan Rott,
  • and 1 more
People lined up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Disneyland's parking lot in Anaheim, Calif. on Jan. 13. The state says all residents 65 or older are now eligible to receive the vaccine.

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  • Health

OPINION: Moral Tragedy Looms In Early Chaos Of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

As states suddenly expand the categories of people eligible for the first scarce shipments of vaccine, who will be watching to make sure those hit hardest by the pandemic aren't left behind?

January 16, 2021
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By:
  • Hazar Khidir and
  • Melanie Molina
In late 2019, the patient's choice to move to an assisted living facility seemed like a good idea — a chance for more social interaction and help with meals and medical care.

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  • Health

Choices, Chance And Living While You Can: Bookends To The Year Of COVID-19

One of my patients in this devastating year stands out — a veteran who'd survived PTSD, cancer and family estrangement. Assisted living raised his COVID-19 risk, but also brought him community.

December 31, 2020
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By:
  • John Henning Schumann
Nerissa Black works as a telemetry nurse at the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, Calif. Since early December, she's been tasked with caring for six critically ill patients per shift instead of four.

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  • Health

California Is Overriding Its Limits On Nurse Workloads As COVID-19 Surges

The state has a law strictly regulating nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals. But the governor recently said hospitals could lift those limits in pandemic times, and nurses are crying foul.

December 30, 2020
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By:
  • April Dembosky
Lisa Taylor got a COVID-19 vaccination in August as part of a vaccine study at Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Fla.

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  • Health

When Might You Expect Your 1st COVID-19 Shot?

In the U.S., front-line health care workers are likely first in line to get immunized with a COVID-19 vaccine, once the FDA says yes. But what about the rest of us? Here's what we know so far.

December 13, 2020
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By:
  • Pien Huang
A proposed rule could cause headaches and extra work for the successor of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, seen with President Trump in November.

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  • Health

Trump HHS Proposal Criticized As Burden For Biden Administration

The rule would require health officials to review about 2,400 regulations on everything from Medicare benefits to prescription drugs approvals. Those not analyzed within two years would become void.

December 09, 2020
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By:
  • Phil Galewitz

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  • Health

1,000 U.S. Hospitals Are 'Critically' Short On Staff — And More Expect To Be Soon

As COVID-19 hospitalizations surge, new data released by the federal government show how many hospitals are struggling with staffing.

November 21, 2020
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  • Sean McMinn and
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
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