I used to be at war with my publications. We used to shrink the size of the text in order to get everything in. I would raise a battle cry: “Our readers can’t read text that small!” How did I know? Because I’m one of those (over-50) readers. There’s a hospital that recognizes the difficulty that us older ones have reading small type.
They had been separated only one other time: when he served in the Korean War. This time, it wasn’t a war that separated them, but hospital regulations.
Opioid addiction is hitting hospitals and healthcare providers across the country, as drug-seekers increasingly crowd EDs and physician offices looking for that next hit.
When it comes to healthcare for those who are transgender, options are limited. That situation is being addressed. The National Institutes of Health has awarded $5.7 million for the first U.S. study to evaluate the long-term outcomes of medical treatment for transgender youth.
Yelp has teamed up to do hospital reviews with ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that provides investigative journalism. Yelp will post information from ProPublica’s interactive health databases on its health provider pages.