Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: Violence Against Medical Professionals Should Be Federal Crime; Ideas To Tackle The ER Crisis
There is no place for violence in civil society. Yet stabbings, shootings, threats and other violent attacks have become frighteningly common, including in America鈥檚 hospitals and other health care settings. (Mary Beth Kingston and Christopher S. Kang, 11/11)
Acute care hospitals are operating at 94 percent capacity, and many patients occupying those hospital beds are just as stuck as those trying to access emergency care because they can鈥檛 get a bed in a rehab or nursing facility. (11/14)
Nov. 18 is National Injury Prevention Day. It's a day focused on efforts to steal business from my place of work. Let me explain. (Kelly Maynard, 11/13)
November is National Hospice Month and National Caregivers Month. It鈥檚 fitting that these two important topics 鈥渟hare鈥 a month because hospice care is for caregivers just as much as it is for patients living out their final months and, sometimes, years. (Kimberly Goessele, 11/11)
Our political lives have become saturated with the language and imagery of therapy. Our personal lives too: The language of 鈥渢rauma鈥 and 鈥渁ttachment styles鈥 has become a common way to understand ourselves and our relationships. (Tara Isabella Burton, 11/12)