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Autoworkers Pick Up New Skills But Downshift to Lower Pay
Published July 3, 2009, 9:00 pm, Washington Post
WARREN, Mich. -- Big, burly and a "car guy" since high school, Tom Persinger worked for years at General Motors. Now he's a nurse's aide.
Steven Wells: fear and loathing in ER
Published July 3, 2009, 1:42 pm, Times Online
I’m writing these notes in the ER blitzed off my tits on Vicodin and synthetic heroin. Outside in the corridor some poor bastard who got crushed by a bowling ball stacking machine is screaming like a baby with Tourette’s. <
Ferndale woman wins national Dementia Care honor
Published July 2, 2009, 4:30 pm, The Bellingham Herald
FERNDALE - Sixty-four years after beginning her career in medicine and health, Ferndale's Madal
Survival rates for elderly patients receiving in-hospital resuscitation (CPR) did not improve from 1992 to 2005
Published July 2, 2009, 3:47 pm, UW News
A study of elderly patients receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in hospitals shows that rates of survival did not improve from 1992 to 2005. During that period, the proportion of hospital deaths preceded by CPR rose, and the proportion of patients who were successfully resuscitated and later discharged fell.
How to help your aging parents without going broke
Published July 2, 2009, 3:17 pm, seattlepi.com
From making their daily life easier to affording in-home care, here's the (money) wise guide you need.
Caregiving, Aging: Your Questions Answered
Published July 2, 2009, 3:09 pm, ABC News
Caregiving experts answer viewers' questions on how to deal with Alzheimer's.
Sinai Hospital expansion features ‘vegetecture’
Published July 2, 2009, 11:46 am, BizJournals
Sinai Hospital opened an expansion of the 446-bed Baltimore hospital Thursday. The 87,000-square-foot, four-story addition contains two new patient care areas and an atrium.
Markham events
Published July 2, 2009, 7:22 am, YorkRegion.com
6th Annual Summer Art Show featuring "Three Viewpoints": The Toogood Pond Artists Gayle Fehr, George Huff, and Jean Rennie. A display of over 50 original paintings by these artists at McKay Art Centre, 197 Main St. Unionville.
CHUS English Liaison Retires
Published July 2, 2009, 6:55 am, Sherbrooke Record
“My mom is in for treatment and she doesn’t speak any French – could you go up to see her today?” That request was the epitome of Lynne Beattie’s career, a common question responded to daily by an anything-but common front-line healthcare worker.
The Patients Doctors Don’t Know
Published July 2, 2009, 4:55 am, New York Times
Basic geriatric knowledge is preventive medicine. Doctors and other health care professionals should have it in order to improve care for older people.
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