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Mexico’s Supreme Court Greenlit Abortion. Will Doctors and Nurses Listen?
Another battle looms over whether public hospitals will be required to offer the procedure.
After Video of Abusive Nurse, Canada’s Indigenous Seek Health Overhaul
The abuse last year of an Indigenous woman in a Quebec hospital has prompted outrage and underlined the discrimination facing Canada’s Indigenous community.
How Nurses Are Feeling: Tired, Angry and Hopeless
“The burnout and PTSD used to feel like a temporary chapter. I see no end in sight now,” one nurse writes. Also: Welcoming Afghan refugees; cosmetic surgery.
‘Nursing Is in Crisis’: Staff Shortages Put Patients at Risk
“When hospitals are understaffed, people die,” one expert warned as the U.S. health systems reach a breaking point in the face of the Delta variant.
When School Nurses Are Not Enough
There is no better time than now to bump up the health resources for children in schools, experts say.
Stress and Burnout Still Plague Front-Line Health Care Workers as Pandemic Eases
Doctors and nurses are reeling from new Covid cases, staff burnout and the prolonged stress of dealing with the pandemic.
Doctors and Nurses Are the Key to the Final Vaccine Push
Health providers are the most trusted source for Covid-19 vaccine information.
The Maldives Lured Tourists Back. Now It Needs Nurses.
The island nation kept Covid cases low, and its resorts open, for much of the pandemic. But a recent surge exposed its overreliance on expatriate health workers.
How Can I Hold On To Hope and Humor While Witnessing So Much Suffering?
“You need art that matches your intensity,” writes our advice columnist.
Health Care Workers Deserve Fashion, Too
After masks, medical scrubs get the designer treatment. It’s the next big market no one expected.
How a Nursing Shortage Affects Families With Disabled Children
A nursing shortage — driven by the pandemic — has made life miserable for parents with profoundly disabled children. “What if I’m so exhausted that I make a mistake?”
They Kept Schools Running as Covid Raged: ‘We Had to Be Here’
Last year, one million students and their teachers emptied out of New York City’s school buildings as the pandemic took hold of the city. These are the staff members who stayed.
India’s Doctors and Medical Workers Face Danger and Trauma
More than 1,000 doctors, and an untold number of medical personnel, have died after coronavirus infections. Many suffer an emotional toll as they make tough decisions about who gets treated.
Alexia’s Lifelong Nurse Has to Leave Her. Here’s Why.
For the most fragile New Yorkers and those who care for them, turning 23 brings enormous consequences.
5 Health Care Jobs on the Rise
Occupations in the industry are increasingly in demand because of an aging population and longer life spans.
Italy Pushes Back as Health Care Workers Shun Covid Vaccines
Prime Minister Mario Draghi issued a decree requiring that workers in health care facilities be vaccinated, a move that will test the legal limits of his government’s efforts to stem coronavirus outbreaks.
How a Javits Center Vaccine Nurse Spends Her Sundays
‘This job makes me feel like I’m part of history.’
A Choreographer Who Bridges the Worlds of Dance and Nursing
Devynn Emory’s “deadbird” — a duet for Emory and a mannequin — deals with grief, envisioning “an ideal care team for a body who’s passing.”
How to Vaccinate Homebound Seniors? Take the Shots to Them.
Millions of older Americans, chronically ill and trapped at home, pose a big challenge to inoculation efforts. Doctors are on it.
How Essential Workers Who Shared Their Sundays With Us Are Doing, One Year In
A nurse struggles with low morale; a waiter worries about a rush to normalcy; a respiratory therapist recovers from Covid, and more.
California Sues Nursing Home Chain, Saying It Manipulated Ratings System
The lawsuit, filed by the state attorney general and other prosecutors, accuses Brookdale Senior Living of gaming Medicare’s ubiquitous star-rating system.
California Sues Brookdale Senior Living, the Nursing Home Operator
The lawsuit, filed by the state attorney general and other prosecutors, accuses Brookdale Senior Living of gaming Medicare’s ubiquitous star-rating system.
Health Care Workers on the Frontline Face a Year of Risk, Fear and Loss
For many nurses and doctors, medicine was an inherited calling and one that bound couples. Then the virus threatened the ones they love.
10 Years After Fukushima Disaster, This Nurse May Be the Region’s Best Hope
Many of Rina Tsugawa’s peers have left for jobs in cities, an outflow common to rural Japan but accelerated by the tsunami and nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima. Ms. Tsugawa has different plans.
How Rhode Island Fell to the Coronavirus
A dense population of vulnerable citizens set the stage for a frightening epidemic.
High Turnover at Nursing Homes Threatens Residents’ Care
A new study highlights the persistent problems caused by an unstable work force, an underlying threat that may have led to staggering death tolls in the pandemic.
America’s Nursing Crisis
Being a nurse was already hard. But in the pandemic, it’s become almost impossible.
Inside a Covid I.C.U., Through a Nurse’s Eyes
A short film offering a firsthand perspective of the brutality of the pandemic inside a Covid-19 I.C.U.
A Year of Unraveling
For the millions of Americans living with dementia, every day during this pandemic can bring a fresh horror.
College Student’s Simple Invention Helps Nurses Work and Patients Rest
The device, a wearable night light that can minimize disturbances for sleeping patients, is the brainchild of a University of Pennsylvania senior and a neonatal I.C.U. nurse.
Health Care Workers Hit Hard by the Coronavirus Pandemic
Vaccines may be on the way, but many on the front-lines are burned out. Has the government done enough to help alleviate their stress?
A Parallel Pandemic Hits Health Care Workers: Trauma and Exhaustion
Vaccines may be on the way, but many on the front-lines are burned out. Has the government done enough to help alleviate their stress?
Health Care Unions Find a Voice as the Pandemic Rages
Faced with the urgent need to protect their members and patients from the virus, labor organizations are pushing hospitals to do more.
U.K. Hospitals Struggle to Cope With a New Coronavirus Variant
Hospitals are straining to cope with a new coronavirus variant, despite warnings last year that more preparations were needed for an expected surge of cases in the winter.
In U.K. Hospitals, a Desperate Battle Against a Threat Many Saw Coming
Hospitals are straining to cope with a new coronavirus variant, despite warnings last year that more preparations were needed for an expected surge of cases in the winter.
The Strange Voyeurism of Watching Someone Else Get Vaccinated
Seeing a shot go in someone’s arm is largely devoid of drama, but the surrounding choreography and presentation of the moment can be fascinating.
‘It’s Starting Again’: Why Filipino Nurses Dread the Second Wave
Indispensable to New York City hospitals, health care workers from the Philippines died in shocking numbers last spring. Will things be different this winter?
Covid Vaccine Rollouts in Europe Are Off to a Shaky Start
Programs in many countries have been hampered by slow-moving bureaucracies, a lack of nurses and shortages of vital equipment.
Hospital Workers Start to ‘Turn Against Each Other’ to Get Covid-19 Vaccine
“I am so disappointed and saddened that this happened,” a New York hospital executive wrote to his staff after workers who did not have priority cut the line for the vaccine.
Hospital Workers Start to ‘Turn Against Each Other’ to Get Vaccine
“I am so disappointed and saddened that this happened,” a New York hospital executive wrote to his staff after workers who did not have priority cut the line for the vaccine.
The Life of Rosary Castro-Olega, a Retired Nurse Who Returned to the Frontlines
“Cause of Life” celebrates the messy, imperfect and extraordinary lives of five people we lost to Covid-19.
Some Health Care Workers Are Getting the Vaccine. Others Aren’t. Who Decides?
Many primary care doctors, firefighters and others at risk of exposure are waiting to learn when they will get vaccinated.
Nurses Are Anxious and Angry in 2nd Wave: ‘We’re Not Prepared’
“We’re worse off in some ways than we were in the beginning,” said one nurse about the lack of workers and resources at her New York hospital.
Inside the Race to Give the First Vaccinations in the United States
Hospitals around the country scrambled to administer the first shots after waiting months for the coronavirus vaccine.
Vaccine Distribution Is Underway in New York
The first coronavirus vaccine in the country was administered in Queens.
‘A Shot of Hope’: What the Vaccine Is Like for Frontline Doctors and Nurses
Even as medical workers lined up for America’s first shots, many of them recalled nightmarish moments from the pandemic.
In Canada, the First Vaccines Leave Health Workers in Tears of Relief
“We were desperate.” As nursing home employees received the first vaccinations on Monday, memories of the pandemic’s first wave left some overwhelmed with emotion.
Sandra Lindsay, the First to Be Vaccinated, Hopes to Persuade Skeptics
Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at a Queens hospital, was the first person in the United States to be vaccinated. She wanted to “inspire people who look like me.”
Portraits of Nurses, By the Designer Rebecca Moses
The designer Rebecca Moses turns a quarantine art project into a gift of thanks and tribute.