Keyword: surgery
Injecting Drugs can ruin a heart - how many second chances should a user get? A life-threatening heart infection afflicts a growing number of people who inject opioids or meth. Costly surgery can fix it, but the addiction often goes unaddressed.
#metoo hits medicine Sexual inappropriateness abounds at all levels of medicine and medical training, although there has been a shift generationally. Here's a look at some perspectives of the "culture" of medicine. Murderer in the Mirror by Scott Eggener A surgeon recalls the devastation of the first time a patient died on the operating table.
Failure and Rescue by Atul Gawande The difference between good and great healthcare is not fewer mistakes, it is more rescues.