Bringing ‘Poogie’ Home: Hospice In The Time Of COVID-19After she landed in the hospital with a broken hip, Parkinson’s disease and the coronavirus, 84-year-old Dorothy “Poogie” Wyatt Shields made a request of her children: “Bring me home.”
Her request came as hospital patients ar…Read More
My Mother Died Of The Coronavirus. It’s Time She Was Counted.We recently received the death certificate for my mother, who died May 4 in an assisted living facility near New York City. “Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome” was the primary cause. And the secondary — no surprise — was “s…Read More
Nearly Half Of Americans Delayed Medical Care Due To PandemicAs the coronavirus threat ramped up in March, hospitals, health systems and private practices dramatically reduced inpatient, nonemergency services to prepare for an influx of COVID-19 patients. A poll released Wednesday reve…Read More
Going The Distance By Bus Through A Pandemic
L.A. Metro bus driver Voris Lombard sits behind a partial Plexiglas shield and wears gloves and a mask while driving. After each shift, Lombard removes his uniform and shoes before entering his home, he says. “It’s almost li…Read More
August 31, 2018
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