A tribe in Maine is using opioid settlement funds on a sweat lodge to treat addiction By Aneri Pattani, Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez May 12, 2024 PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Outside the Mi’kmaq Nation’s health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black canvas. It’s one of several sweat […]
Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm By Judith Graham MAY 6, 2024 Every day, the scene plays out in hospitals across America: Older men and women lie on gurneys in emergency room corridors moaning or suffering silently as harried medical staff attend to crises. Even when physicians
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A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her. by Patrick Rucker, The Capitol Forum, and David Armstrong, ProPublica April 29, 2024 In late 2020, Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning. Work faster, or the company
Doctors vs. hospitals: A bid to regulate hedge funds is dividing California medical groups By Ryan Sabalow April 30, 2024; Updated May 1, 2024 The most influential players in the health industry are fighting over a controversial plan to let the attorney general block hedge funds and private equity firms from acquiring health care
Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse By Abby Vesoulis May 10, 2024 Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung spent four years in medical school, four years in an OB-GYN residency, and three years in a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship learning how to care for high-risk pregnant patients. In her decade-plus of medical training, she learned that in
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