CharlieMcHenry, to Medicine
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When even non-profit, state supported rely on and make decisions based on profitability, both patients and communities suffer the consequences: In Oregon, leaders warn crowded emergency room is hurting finances - “…the emergency department has become, in effect, an overflow inpatient unit for the hospital, with people needing care stashed in conference rooms, hallway beds and exam rooms.” https://www.opb.org/article/2024/04/21/ohsu-hospital-emergency-room-overcrowding/

ttpphd, to portland
@ttpphd@mastodon.social avatar

Caught this long rainbow yesterday going down the aerial tram.

ahimsa_pdx, to Futurology
@ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social avatar

"Switching arms between vaccine doses could dramatically improve immune response, OHSU study shows" 😲

Surprising news! This is dated last week but it aired just a couple days ago

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/02/16/switching-arms-between-vaccine-doses-could-dramatically-improve-immune-response-ohsu-study-shows/

ahimsa_pdx, (edited ) to oregon
@ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social avatar

From OPB -

Five of the top illuminating, inspiring and just plain cool Pacific Northwest science stories from “All Science. No Fiction.”

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/12/18/gray-whale-population-boom-bust-clean-snow-guilt-northwest-science-roundup/

autogestion, to Unions
@autogestion@union.place avatar

https://www.thelundreport.org/content/legacy-health-employees-are-unionizing-blinding-speed

: nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, technical employees, mental and behavioral health workers, advanced practice providers, physicians make moves to join various

stevesplace, to random

is merging with Health who thinks pregnant women are cash cows to milk in another hospital, not one near where they live. Nurses are contemplating a strike. America's highly profitable healthcare system remains the best in the universe b/c very rich people keep getting richer as everyone else bows to their power and wealth for generations. For-profit medicine is the best, isn't it? Oh, Holy Political Parties, where is there an ass we can kiss to get some service around here?

stevenbodzin, to random
@stevenbodzin@thepit.social avatar

A friend with cancer got COVID-19 in a hospital while getting chemo. He now has pneumonia.

Please wear masks in hospitals.

vorlon,
@vorlon@mastodon.social avatar

@stevenbodzin oncology has a policy that masks are still required for everyone on the chemo floor.

But the campus security guard who had to spend a half hour talking to reception in person about who was working some other day when a patient may or may not have made a threat didn't bother following the rule, and no one (including me at the time) held him to account.

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