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...great news for the local economy--not to mention the construction companies building the new patient wings and the medical-equipment providers filling them. But Mark Morales, the company's vice president for planning and placement, has a nagging worry. He needs people--half of them nurses--to staff all those new floors, and he isn't sure where he is going to find them...
...He’s a really patient person,” Edwards says, “and he was really patient with me, helping me learn the offense. He still quizzes me to this day, but luckily I get all the answers right now—unlike freshman year...
...have created a task force on mental health that will include clinicians, students and faculty members expert in health issues. This task force is charged with implementing the recommendations of the Provost’s Committee on Student Mental Health Services and the University Health Service (UHS) Patient Care Assessment Committee. Specifically, the task force will seek to: improve outreach to encourage students to seek help without fear of being stigmatized; integrate and enhance clinical treatment services under UHS; re-focus counseling and academic support services at the Bureau of Study Counsel; and expand education of residential life staff...
...lethal-injection executions. "I helped him," Chaussoy told Time last week. "I eased his pain, physical and emotional." The local prosecutor says these injections killed Vincent, and doctors are forbidden from deliberately provoking death under the French code of medical ethics. But the code also requires doctors to ease patients' suffering and avoid "foolish obstinacy" in treatment. Chaussoy's supporters say the shots are a customary, humane response to a patient in pain. Chaussoy did not mention the injections in his public statements after Vincent's death. And he confirms that if he'd done nothing, Vincent would have likely...
According to Mello, Pozen drew inspiration for his ideas from the example of Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and Denmark, which have universal patient injury insurance but also limit damages in malpractice cases...