by Kyle Jahner | Jul 19, 2011 | Science + Technology
In 2009 Becky Jones was a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill nursing graduate in the midst of recession. She said that even having graduated from the fourth-ranked nursing school in the country didn’t seem to help at first. “Even we were sweating for jobs,”...
by Kyle Jahner | Jul 19, 2011 | Science + Technology
Working as a nurse in one of the busiest cardiac catheterization labs in the country for the last year and a half, Courtney Nahigian spent a lot of time thinking about the preventability of many of her patients’ heart problems. Kyle Jahner/MEDILL NEWS SERVICEKate...
by Kyle Jahner | Jul 19, 2011 | Science + Technology
Kyle Jahner/MEDILL NEWS SERVICE The main entrance at Washington Hospital Center. With nearly 1,000 hospital beds, 1,600 physicians and over 40,000 inpatient admissions to go along with over 400,000 outpatient admissions annually, it is one of the busiest in the...
by Kyle Jahner | Jul 19, 2011 | Science + Technology
The concept of health care conjures up some basic archetypes, often formulated early on in life. From hospital beds to emergency rooms to the white coats shrouding the all-knowing vessels of medical knowledge, we have ingrained in us an idea of what care is supposed...
by Kyle Jahner | Jun 8, 2011 | Topics
The jargon washed over me like a tidal wave. Doctors spoke of clinical trials, blending six-cylinder pharmacological and scientific terms with detailed statistical descriptions regarding the effectiveness of something called Fidaxomicin. At points, they may as well...
