Healthcare Accountability • Patient Dignity • Postmortem Care A family’s lawsuit against an Oregon hospital raises difficult questions about postmortem care, interstate transportation of human remains, medical-examiner involvement—and whether legal permission is the same thing as meaningful choice. An 8-month-old…
FOR BEDSIDERS WHO ARE TIRED OF FEELING LIKE ROADKILL The 12-Hour Shift Hits Different After 40 How to Survive the Bedside Without Feeling 84 There is a precise moment somewhere in your late 30s or early 40s when a 12-hour…
It sounds like something out of a horror movie. An elderly, non-verbal hospice resident. A nurse allegedly claiming the woman was possessed. Fingers forced into the resident’s mouth. Clothing and towels allegedly pushed into her mouth or throat. Repeated blows…