Tag: Patients

The soaring cost of prescription drugs has ignited public pressure for action. Governments are considering aggressive price controls as a solution, promising relief at the pharmacy counter. But behind the headlines lies a potential storm: mass layoffs in the pharma industry. The domino effec...

The first time I saw a patient in the hospital was in 2004, twenty years ago, when I was a third-year med student. Since that time, I have spent countless hours in the hospital as a resident, a renal fellow, and finally as an attending. And I’m sure many of you in the medical community feel...

I retired after 26+ years as a nurse. Sometimes the enormity of that still hits me square in the face. All. The. Patients. I touched in My Life. And All. The. Patients. who touched me. A lot of them are gone. The number one rule in healthcare has always been this — you can’t save ever...