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October 20, 2014
Presby's Nurses Announce Support for the Hospital But Secrecy Remains
On Monday afternoon, dozens of nurses, doctors and other healthcare employees convened at the front entrance of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to discuss the recent controversy about how the hospital handled the Ebola outbreak. Despite definitive comments in support of the hospital, Presby's nur ... More >>
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August 27, 2014
Many New Moms Are Eating Their Placentas. Baylor Wants Them Off the Menu.
She was recovering in a postpartum room at Baylor University Medical Center this spring, exhausted from giving birth, when her husband gave her the good news. "We got the placenta," he told her. "It's in the cooler." Now she just had to get it off the hospital property without being caught. "We wer ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2014
It Really Sucks to Be Old in Texas
In a national report released yesterday by the AARP, findings rank each state in terms of long term care for the elderly. The report considers such factors as nursing home affordability and accessibility, family support, and quality of life and care. The upshot? It sucks to get old in Texas.
Blogs
September 4, 2013
An Orthodox Jew Says El Centro College Threatened to Boot Him from Nursing School for Missing Class on Rosh Hashanah
Tomorrow, Hillel Rodin is scheduled to begin his second semester in the nursing program at Dallas' El Centro Community College. He is also scheduled to observe Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year and one of the holiest days in Judaism. Therein lies his problem. Rodin is an Orthodox Jew. His religiou ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2010
Just Remember, There's More to Eddie Bernice Johnson Than the Scholarship Scandal
Eddie Bernice Johnson's Facebook pageThis item is a dilation of a comment I posted to yesterday's item about 30th District Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and the scandal about scholarships and nepotism. It struck me after I posted the comment that maybe I owed the topic a better effort. In t ... More >>
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