Trips to the hospital can be stressful for patients, and sometimes that stress manifests itself as misplaced hostility towards physicians.…
For people with severe allergies, self-administered epinephrine injectors like the EpiPen can be life-saving devices. Recently, however, the maker of…
In 2016, nonprofit patient safety organization The Leapfrog Group conducted a nationwide survey of America’s hospitals that graded their safety…
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We might like to think that healthcare in America is some of the best in the world, but that doesn’t…
When it comes to people in your life that you trust, your doctor should be on the top of that…
This year, nonprofit patient safety organization The Leapfrog Group conducted a nationwide survey of America’s hospitals that graded their safety…
Did you know that the average noise level in American hospitals is about 95 decibels? That’s 10 decibels higher than…