Emergency Medicine

Thomas Eric Duncan's Family Settles With Texas Health Presbyterian

It was something that was inevitable once Thomas Eric Duncan was sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with antibiotics on September 26. There would be legal action against the hospital for its treatment of Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the United States. Wed ... More >>

Some Patients Complain That Parkland Is Filing Exorbitant Hospital Liens For Medical Bills

A little-known perk of being a Texas hospital is that if a broke accident victim visits you for emergency treatment, you get to lay claim to any money the victim wins through the courts later. It's officially called a "hospital lien," legal through a state statute that's been on the books since the ... More >>

Why Don't We Know Yet Exactly What Happened When Our Ebola Patient Zero Appeared?

The commenters are already whetting their knives on Stephen Young's piece here a bit earlier reporting that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price has raised the issue of racism in the treatment of Ebola Patient Zero, Thomas Eric Duncan, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. But maybe we coul ... More >>

Surprise Bills from Texas Emergency Rooms Enough to Give Even the Insured a Heart Attack

What's that? Your arm just fell off? Naturally your first reaction might be something along the lines of, "Thank goodness I'm insured!" Your next reaction might be to scream in agony, but instead you might want to suck it up, save your breath and tell the ambulance driver not to take you to Baylor U ... More >>

Weeks After Dallas PD First Began Using Tourniquets, One Saves a Cop's Life

Dallas police officer Joshua Burns is alive right now in part because he was wearing a bulletproof vest, because alleged shooter Rakeem Perkins didn't hit his head, because he was rushed to Baylor Medical Center, where trauma doctors tended the wounds on leg and shoulder. He's also alive because, w ... More >>

Brain-Dead Tarrant County Woman's Fetus is "Distinctly Abnormal," Lawyers Say

Marlise Munoz is, as she has been for the past two months, in a Fort Worth's hospital bed, being kept alive by machines. A Tarrant County judge could decide tomorrow whether she is legally dead, thus allowing her family to pull the plug as they all agree she would have wanted, or if she still retain ... More >>

Flamin' Hot Cheetos Are Sending Kids to the Emergency Room

It's been more than a year since schools in California, Illinois and New Mexico banned the sale of Flamin' Hot Cheetos on campus, but the pungent Plano-made snack food is still the source of trouble for kids. New evidence suggests that eating several bags of the stuff can cause, along with all the o ... More >>

As North Texas Preps for Massive Counter-Terrorism Drill, Protestors Decry Police Militarization

This weekend, heavily armored police, SWAT teams, bomb squads, and paramedics will descend upon 20 sites in North Texas--Irving's Stipes Elementary, Tarrant County College's Northwest Campus, Baylor hospital in Dallas, and some barns in Duncanville among them--for the region's inaugural Urban Shield ... More >>

Six Reasons We Can't Wait for Glazed Donuts in Deep Ellum to Open on Friday

There are at least 98 reasons why we're excited about Glazed Donuts Works in Deep Ellum (2644 Elm St.) opening this Friday, but each one of these reasons is worth 27 Weight Watchers points, and since we drink a lot of our points, rationing for doughnuts puts us off-grid. So here are six reasons wh ... More >>

Here's Video of an 18-Wheeler's Fatal Plunge Off an I-30 Overpass in Grand Prairie

Investigators aren't sure what caused James Anthony Long, a 59-year-old from Clarksville, Tennessee, and his 2012 Freightliner to veer off an I-30 overpass in Grand Prairie. The video above, recorded by North Texas Tollway Authority cameras positioned on State Highway 161, capture only what happened ... More >>

Parkland's Future CEO Can't Heal Hospital Without Support Missing from Austin and D.C.

Warren Fagadau, a Dallas ophthalmologist who has been involved in health insurance reform efforts in Texas, has a piece on the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News today about the qualities our public hospital in Dallas should look for in its ongoing search for a new chief executive officer. His vi ... More >>

Jason Villalba Wants to Clear Some Things Up About His Plan to Arm Texas' Teachers

Freshman state Rep. Jason Villalba has spent much of the past couple days scrambling to respond to the sudden media attention sparked by his announcement that he would file a bill for the coming legislative session allowing teachers to carry guns. He talked to the Morning News yesterday, and yesterd ... More >>

A (Fake) Mass Shooting at Valley View Center Meets Dallas Fire-Rescue's Rapid Response

Photos by Mike MezeulWell, whatever it takes to get folks back to Valley View. Slide show here.​Mall shootings never start on time, and the "massacre" that occurred Tuesday afternoon was no exception. While about 50 7th- to 12th-grade Dallas Lutheran students arranged themselves inside Valley View ... More >>

The Other Side of Dallas' Electric Daisy Carnival Story

Some 22,000 people enjoyed the second Electric Daisy Carnival in Fair Park without incident, but one death and several health scares marred the event.

More Thoughts on Saturday Night's Electric Daisy Carnival at Fair Park in Dallas...

Kevin TodoraMost people at EDC Dallas seemed to be having a good time. For more images from the event, check out the slideshow of attendees.​ Still waiting on a lot of news this early afternoon in regards to Saturday night's Electric Daisy Carnival at Fair Park. All morning long city officials -- ... More >>

One Dead, Dozens Hospitalized at 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival in Dallas. (Updated With Statement From Promoter.)

​By 1 a.m. this morning, at least one attendee at Saturday night's Electric Daisy Carnival in Fair Park had been declared dead. At least another two dozen had been hospitalized.After a first year in Dallas that had been deemed a "phenomenal event" by city officials, the second Dallas installment o ... More >>

A Base for the Bubbly

Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

Rodeo Elves

Parkland, Even More "Overwhelmed"

The new and imrpoved Parkland's scheduled to open in 2014.Out this week is a report that notes the following: Patients spent "an average of four hours and three minutes" waiting in the emergency room in 2008, a slight decrease from the '07 average but an enormous jump from the '02 numbers. (In Texas ... More >>

Nurses Need Nursing

This Associated Press reports this morning that hospitals throughout the country are having trouble finding and keeping nurses. Part of the problem has to do with the difficulty hospitals are having in transitioning nurses from the training to the actual doing. Let's begin in a Dallas ER, shall we?N ... More >>

Bend Over Freshman

HAZE explores the dark side of Greek life

It's Dallas vs. Dallas, As ER Docs Assail McCain's Advisor's Health Care Claims

Mark Graham John Goodman Couple of years back in the paper version of Unfair Park, we profiled National Center for Policy Analysis boss man John Goodman, who was in the news at the time for firing Bruce Bartlett -- a longtime Republican who'd been critical in the press and in a book about George W. ... More >>

Been Caught Stealing

EASL offers local artists life support

A Piece of Parkland Hospital is Now Buried Deep Below Kansas Soil

Parkland Memorial Hospital Trauma Room No. 1, buried but not forgotten A very significant piece of Parkland Memorial Hospital now resides in Lenexa, Kansas, just slightly south of Kansas City. Only, you will likely never again see this bit of Dallas history: The former Parkland trauma room has gone ... More >>

Scattershooting … With All Due Respect

Not only is Jason Witten's wife Michelle an E.R. nurse, but she also has 20/16 vision in both eyes. Scattershooting while wondering what ever happened to legendary, old-school press like Bud Shrake, Dan Jenkins and, of course, Blackie Sherrod. Cool, they’re right here. Hold a sec while I find my f ... More >>

Inside Dallas County's "Safety Net"

In the Line of Fire

This morning, Government Executive posted a story based upon internal Army briefings that reveal "combat medical units operating in Iraq do not have the proper emergency transport equipment, are lacking in training and have a shortage of critical personnel, including lab technicians who must send me ... More >>

Dr. Feelgood

You're not a doctor, but Trauma Center lets you play one on TV.

Bronc, Stock and Barrel

R.I.P.ped

Even former Mr. America Mike Scarcella wasn't strong enough to beat the horrors of GHB addiction

Wing Nut

Tired of covering the action, our sportswriter shoots for gluttonous fame

Déjà Vu

Advocates say University Park paramedics shunned a man with AIDS--at an AIDS awareness rally

Best Flour Tortillas

Mia's Tex-Mex Restaurant

Nic at night

Scorsese manages to bring out the dead, especially in the living

Buzz