Building the Will for Change
By Jordan Harmon When patients come through the front doors of a hospital, they are inevitably greeted by compassionate clinicians and staff. Why then do we so consistently fail to
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Spend Less. Live Better.
By Diane Scheb RN, MSN Spend less. Live better. Except, she didn’t have that long to live. Maybe 10 days. . . probably not. Thirty-three years old, an illegal Mexican migrant
Give Lungs a Chance
By Danielle Moriates, RN When babies are born prematurely, they often lack surfactant – a soapy substance produced in the lungs that helps to keep the air sacs open. Without
Not as Simple as We Think
By Kristin Morin, MSN RN I wish lowering healthcare costs was as easy as “cost awareness”, but as one patient put it, “I never pay the first few bills, because
A Second-Rate Life
By Kunal Arya Last year, I underwent a colectomy, a surgery that removed my entire colon. Afterwards, I had to wear a temporary waste-collecting pouch attached to my abdomen known as
Because I Can
By Christen McCurdy Sometime while I was still in high school, my mom began to have trouble breathing. She had never had asthma before; an Albuterol inhaler helped for a