Medical issues following a disaster

When no one speaks up, silence can become part of the culture of care. 

Need to send your doctor a message? A new study suggests how you write it—not just what you say—may affect whether your doctor responds. 

It's not the sniffles clogging our ERs. It's a hospital system with nowhere left to put people. 

Learn how to describe a situation that is getting worse and might end in disaster. 

الكارثة 

Disasters don’t just happen. Like anything in life, there’s usually a buildup. In the case of the Chernobyl disaster, the series of failures stretched back more than a decade. But what happened the day before the explosion? 

We can get used to life's ebbs and flows, the constants of normalcy until things change. It can be abrupt, tearing apart the world you thought you knew and you find yourself stumbling into unfamiliar danger. First, Don’t let Grandma see you sneak in. Next, Discover a midnight sna ... Show More

Fate is a tricky thing, they say that it can’t be escaped. That when the writing's on the wall or the warnings have been read, that’s it for you. Because we can only be so cautious when facing the dangers in our path, because unfortunately, even the best security sometimes just i ... Show More

<p>In disasters where a lot of people lose their homes, the impacts are not confined to a single city or town. They ripple outward, cascading into the surrounding area, as the survivors are forced to go looking for new places to live. This is the story of what happened after the ... Show More