U.S. Healthcare Facing a Staffing Crisis

Historically, there has been no definitive link between smoking cannabis and lung cancer; however, new research suggests otherwise. The retrospective cohort study used 20 years of deidentified electronic medical record data from 67 tertiary healthcare organizations across the Uni ... Show More

In this podcast, an anesthesiologist (TJ Gan) and an environmental scientist (Michelle Cain) discuss the use of desflurane with a focus on environmental considerations, as well as clinical outcomes and benefits in specific patient populations. Supported by Baxter. 

The WHO has added cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) to its diagnostic manual, establishing a new dedicated ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification) diagnosis code for the health condition. The update, which took effect Oct. 1 ... Show More

A growing number of nurses in the U.S. have become overwhelmed and fed up by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, leading to staffing shortages in intensive care units. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf ... Show More

America’s rural hospitals face an uncertain future. One in three are now at risk of closure as doctors and nurses quit, patients struggle to pay their medical bills and government covid subsidies stop. We hear from the front line of one rural hospital in Luray, Virginia. Travis C ... Show More

What can be done to stem the tide of carers quitting the industry? Before the pandemic the healthcare sector struggled to recruit enough workers. Today they're leaving in droves. Citing physical and mental exhaustion, poor working conditions, a lack of appreciation and miserly pa ... Show More

<p>As hospitals in the United States battled another coronavirus wave in the past few months, another crisis was steadily growing more acute: a shortage of nurses.</p><p>We speak to some of the “forgotten warriors” of the nursing profession, at Pascagoula Hospital in Mississippi, ... Show More

<p>Britain’s National Health Service is in <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/01/09/general-practitioners-are-a-big-part-of-britains-health-care-crisis?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr ... Show More