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Posted By: Becky Slatin
Date Posted: May 16th, 2012
Category: Medicine
Fanaye Dadi, MD, says she has seen the best and worst in health care. Growing up in Ethiopia, attending medical school in Cuba and now living in the United States, she has witnessed the full spectrum of health care. She has seen what is possible in a developed country and the challenges faced by those [...]
Posted By: Make Medicine Better
Date Posted: May 13th, 2012
Category: Breakthroughs, Health Care
By Laura Putre, Hospitals and Health Networks Before St. Louis Children’s Hospital had a child protection program, there was Nancy Duncan, a staff nurse in the emergency room whose mother had taught her at an early age to say “penis” and “vagina” without blushing. “When a case of child maltreatment and, often, sexual abuse came [...]
Posted By: Mary Duffield, RN
Date Posted: May 10th, 2012
Category: Caregiving
My nursing career began in 1949, when I was 8 years old. I had a hospital ward on my parents’ front porch. In the days before store-bought nurse kits, I improvised with dolls as my patients, dishtowels for slings, hot water bottles and handkerchiefs for bandages. My fascination with psychiatric nursing began two years later [...]
Posted By: Stephanie Perry
Date Posted: May 7th, 2012
Category: Day in the Life
Eighteen-year-old Jake Vollmer is a Cardinals fan — a big Cardinals fan. His room in his family’s Florissant home is covered in Cardinals baseball memorabilia, including posters, hats, bobble-heads, jerseys and a Missouri license plate decorated with the red bird that reads “No. 1 Fan.” While he was one of thousands of St. Louisans thrilled [...]
Posted By: Make Medicine Better
Date Posted: May 3rd, 2012
Category: Health Care, Medicine
A BJC pharmacist is using the web to teach patients about over-the-counter and prescription drugs. Ask the Pharmacist is part of “Help for Your Health,” BJC’s employee wellness program. Missouri Baptist Medical Center resident pharmacist Duane Wesche, RPh, takes questions about prescription and over-the-counter drugs submitted from the public and employees through www.bjchealth.org. Since it began, [...]
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