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Undue Medical Debt, formerly RIP Medical Debt, [1] is a Long Island City–based 501(c)(3) charity [2] focused on the elimination of personal medical debt. [3] Founded in 2014 by former debt collection executives Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico, [4] the charity purchases portfolios of income-qualifying medical debt from debt collectors and healthcare providers, and then relieves the debt. [5]
The Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine published a 2011 study analyzing food served at more than 110 hospitals in all 50 states and determined that many hospitals were serving foods ...
It can also be used where non-critical transport is advised, but it would be counterproductive to take the party by ambulance. For instance, an injured but frightened child might be better comforted and transported to a hospital or doctor’s office by a parent instead of an ambulance crew.
Rip Off Britain is a BBC One series which exposes Britain's rip-offs and helps consumers. It began on 30 November 2009, presented by former news journalists Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond. Newsreader Julia Somerville replaced Bond from series three. It has two spin-off series, Rip Off Britain Food and Rip Off Britain: Holidays.
VIP medicine is a variety of the VIP syndrome—the phenomenon of a perceived "VIP" (very important person) using his or her status to influence a given professional or institution to make unorthodox decisions under the pressure or presence of said VIP—that relates to the accessibility and quality of health care. [1]
Nurses at South Florida State Hospital gave rescue workers Patient 2’s eyes, preserved in ice, to take to the hospital, police reported. But it was not possible to restore the man’s sight.
A hospital-acquired infection, also known as a nosocomial infection (from the Greek nosokomeion, meaning "hospital"), is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other healthcare facility. [1] To emphasize both hospital and nonhospital settings, it is sometimes instead called a healthcare-associated infection . [ 2 ]
Produced by the network's entertainment division, the show ran for 90 minutes (7:30–9 am local time) behind a briefly expanded 90-minute CBS Early Morning News (6–7:30 am local; although most larger affiliates pre-empted all or part of the 6–7 am hour to produce a local morning newscast), which had dropped "Early" from its title. However ...