All posts tagged "Hospitals"

Bill Dixon, 80, lay on a bed between two white fabric dividers in the hallway of the emergency department at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas Friday, one of 14 patients waiting for an emergency bed to open up. He had been there for two hours, having come in from his Solana Beach home with chest pain and dizziness, comfortable with the attention he was getting from medical staff, but taken aback by his surroundings. "This is really not acceptable from a patient perspective," the Solana Beach resident said. "There's really no privacy." On Friday, all 38 of the hospital's emergency department ......

Heather Avant always dresses up when she goes to the emergency room. “I’ve been conditioned to act and behave in a very specific way,” said Avant. “I try to do my hair. I make sure I shower, have nice clothes. Sometimes I put on my University of Michigan shirt.” It’s a strategy to combat discrimination the 42-year-old photographer in Mesquite, Texas, has developed over a lifetime of managing her sickle cell disease, a rare blood disorder that affects an estimated 100,000 Americans. The hereditary condition can affect a person of any race or ethnicity, but Black patients, like Avant, make up th......

Jamie Foxx looks to be on the mend, returning to work in the wake of his recent mystery health scare that landed him in the hospital. The Oscar winner, 55, was back in front of the cameras for his latest BetMGM commercial this week, insiders told TMZ. Foxx reportedly looked to be the picture of health while filming at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. “Thankful for my @BetMGM family and a great few nights in Vegas,” Foxx wrote on Instagram that evening. “We got BIG things coming soon.” The post marked the first snap Foxx shared of himself since being hospitalized in April for an undiscl......

A group of nurses in Georgia are no longer working at a hospital after sharing pet peeves about moms in labor on TikTok, their employer said. “We are aware of a TikTok video that included disrespectful and unprofessional comments about maternity patients at Emory University Hospital Midtown,” the Atlanta hospital said in a statement. “We have investigated the situation and taken appropriate actions with the former employees responsible for the video.” McClatchy News reached out to the Emory University Hospital Midtown for clarification if the employees were fired or quit and has not received a......

NEW YORK — A woman died early Tuesday after she was dumped at a Bronx hospital naked from the waist down — and doctors suspect she was the victim of a botched butt injection, police sources said. Two mystery women are being sought after they drove 53-year-old Maxine Messam to Jacobi Medical Center in her own BMW SUV and then walked off, leaving the vehicle behind. “We don’t know what happened,” the victim’s husband, Carlos Simpson, told the Daily News, speaking outside the family’s home in Bridgeport, Connecticut. “She was at work and she left work. So we don’t know what happened from there.” ......

Scott Quiner’s family did everything to keep him alive in the face of COVID – except prevent it. The reportedly unvaccinated 55-year-old died Saturday after a court battle during which his wife fought successfully to keep him from being unplugged from a ventilator in Minnesota, and then flew him to Texas for treatment in a Houston hospital. The father of two adult children and a teen had contracted COVID for a second time in October, according to WCCO-TV, and by Thanksgiving was in Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, and intubated. Earlier this month the hospital said they couldn’t do an......