She was the rare woman in her field, and a tenured professor. But when a sexist colleague was promoted, she quit, forcing a reckoning in her profession.
Category: Hospitals
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U.S. Races to Replace IV Fluid Supplies After Hurricane Helene
Officials are looking to foreign sources to ease shortages of IV bags caused by Hurricane Helene as hospitals begin rationing fluids to protect the sickest patients.
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Acadia Healthcare Says It Faces New Federal Investigations
Shares of the company, one of the largest chains of for-profit psychiatric hospitals, were down 25 percent at one point.
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Acadia Hospitals Reach $20 Million Settlement With Justice Dept.
The F.B.I. is also investigating the large chain of psychiatric hospitals for holding patients longer than what is medically necessary.
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That Message From Your Doctor? It May Have Been Drafted by A.I.
Overwhelmed by queries, physicians are turning to artificial intelligence to correspond with patients. Many have no clue that the replies are software-generated.
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Amigos durante 16 años, amantes por una noche
“¿Crees que habríamos discutido si hubiéramos sido pareja?”, me preguntó mi mejor amigo el día antes de su muerte.
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Friends for 16 Years. Lovers for One Night.
We realized much too late that we were right for each other.
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Exposing a Hospital Chain’s Disturbing Practices
Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas spent months looking into a psychiatric hospital chain that held some people against their will for financial reasons, not medical ones.
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How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients
Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.
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Hospitals Cancel Nonessential Surgeries After Microsoft Outage
Hospital systems across the country reported I.T. disruptions. A spokesman for Kaiser Permanente called the situation “unprecedented.”
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Promised Cures, Tainted Cells: How Cord Blood Banks Mislead Parents
Families pay thousands of dollars to store their children’s stem cells with the hope of a healthier future. But the cells are rarely useful, and sometimes contaminated.
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Ann Lurie, Nurse Who Became a Prominent Philanthropist, Is Dead at 79
A former hippie who chafed at wealth, she married a Chicago real estate titan and, after his death, donated hundreds of millions in her adopted city and beyond.