Hospital
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Newyork
A Hospital’s Slow Death: As Beth Israel Shrinks, Patient Care Suffers
Amid a standoff with the state over whether Beth Israel Hospital will close, severely ill patients keep arriving to a hospital that cannot always care for them.
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Newyork
Doctors, Not Judges, Should Decide When to Treat Patients Without Their Consent
Not long ago, I took care of a middle-aged man at my hospital who had severe heart failure requiring life support. When he was disconnected from machines after a few days of treatment, he began to display psychotic symptoms, including delusional ...
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Newyork
Herbert Pardes, Who Steered the Growth of a Giant Hospital, Dies at 89
A psychiatrist, he ran New York-Presbyterian after a landmark merger, improving its patient care and finances and raising money to expand its footprint across the region.
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World
In Northern Israel, Clashes With Hezbollah Drive a Hospital Underground
Concrete barricades outside one of the entrances to Galilee Medical Center in northern Israel in April.Credit...Amit Elkayam for The New York TimesA member of the hospital’s medical staff with a wheelchair in the underground internal medicine ward ...
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World
Four Wild Ways to Save the Koala (That Just Might Work)
It was spring in Queensland, Australia, a season when many wild animals find themselves in trouble, and the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital was a blur of fur and feathers. A groggy black swan emerged from the X-ray room, head swaying on its long neck. A ...
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Newyork
Doctor Is Fired After Maternal and Infant Deaths at a Brooklyn Hospital
A doctor involved in an infant death at Woodhull Medical Center was later involved in a C-section that led to a mother’s death, according to state investigators and hospital staff.
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World
Workers Comb Devastated Al-Shifa Hospital for Bodies
United Nations workers and Gazan health officials returned to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday to beginburying the unidentified remains of scores of people who died there during a 12-day Israeli raid on the complex in March. The raid pitted ...
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World
Israel Presses On With Strikes in Gaza After U.N. Cease-Fire Resolution
The Israeli military pressed on with its bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, signaling that the passing of a United Nations resolution calling for a cease-fire for the holy month of Ramadan on Monday had not shaken Israel’s determination to ...
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World
Doctors, Back From Gaza Hospitals, Tell Washington of Horrors Amid Cease-Fire Push
The memories are unforgettable. A flood of screaming families carrying their bloodied loved ones through the doors of an already inundated hospital. A small boy trying to resuscitate a child who looked not much older than himself. A 12-year-old with ...
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World
Israel Says It Has Killed Dozens of ‘Terrorists’ in Hospital Raid
Israel’s military said on Thursday that it had killed dozens of people it described as terrorists in the previous 24 hours as its raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, the largest medical facility in the territory, stretched into a fourth day ...