Primavesi said other factors are in play, such as beds closed for infection control.“If a VRE
[vancomycin-resistant enterococcus] patient comes up in a 4-bed room, all 4 patients have to …

Read the newspapers, it doesn't matter where—Boston, Seattle, Ohio, in urban areas of
Texas, Florida, New York, hospitals are temporarily closing emergency rooms to ambulance …

I talk to Purna Sen, who appeared in a BBC documentary featuring whistle-blowers. She
discusses the sexual harassment of people working at the United Nations, and examples of …

153 with actions that limit citizenship, the supply must be increased, up to reasonable limits.
And increasing supply means improving financing and investing that money properly15. If …

The sirens never stop. There are so many that I have nightmares about ambulances
speeding down the street three or four abreast like chariots, wheels flying off, whips crack …

I am in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 2, when I read the news: New York City has its first
patient hospitalized with the coronavirus. Though I am more than 7,000 miles away …

We thought that the annually winter surge was one of our main challenges [1]. The COVID-
19 crisis revealed the good, the bad and the ugly. Let us start with the good. There is no …

Few patients have had as much impact on a health care system as Claude Dufresne.
Dufresne, 51, died June 20 while en route to hospital in Trois-Rivières, Que., 30 minutes …

It's likely there will be many accusations of failure in the wake of the appalling terrorist
attacks in Paris last week. Failures of intelligence. Failures to take the threat of attack …

Every year, when the leaves start to fall, we look closely at data from the southern
hemisphere on seasonal flu. A virulent flu variant with high mortality presages a difficult …