All the chairs in the waiting room were filled by dozens of newly arrived migrants waiting to be seen by a Cook County health worker at a clinic in Chicago. Julio Figuera, 43, was among them.
Nov 2, 2023
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Raspy cries and barky coughs echoed across the emergency room at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children on a recent chilly morning in North Philadelphia. Kids had just started to stream into the waiting room, yet every available ...
Dec 12, 2022
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When Thomas Fisher, MD, started work on what would become "The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER" (One World, 2022), the COVID-19 pandemic was still months away. Fisher, an emergency physician at ...
Nov 8, 2022
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Growing surgical backlogs during the COVID-19 pandemic have revived debate in Canada about the merits of allowing patients to pay privately for faster access to care.
Oct 31, 2022
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Hong Kong's health facilities have been overloaded by an "onslaught" of COVID-19 infections, its leader said, even as authorities cling to a "zero-COVID" policy despite an unprecedented rise in cases fuelled by the Omicron ...
Feb 14, 2022
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Roger Strukhoff was being treated for intestinal bleeding at a hospital outside Chicago this month when he suffered a mild heart attack.
Jan 21, 2022
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At an ICU unit in a low-income Buenos Aires suburb, exhausted staff are bracing for a new wave of coronavirus admissions.
Apr 15, 2021
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A large "Welcome" sign still hangs outside Berlin's Tegel airport, which closed for good in November.
Nov 27, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has left many people with chronic health conditions relying on telemedicine rather than seeing their doctor in person when necessary or putting off important visits entirely because they fear being infected.
Oct 21, 2020
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Surgical patients who participate in virtual follow-up visits after their operations spend a similar amount of time with surgical team members as those who meet face-to-face. Moreover, these patients benefit by spending less ...
Oct 4, 2020
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