Longer Appears: Attention-grabbing Reads You Would possibly Have Missed
Every week, KFF Well being Information finds longer tales so that you can get pleasure from. This week’s choices embrace tales on organ donation, hospice, remedy, abortion, and extra.
AP:
Few Transplant Surgeons Are Black. Giving Medical College students A Uncommon Peek At Organ Donation Might Assist
It’s lengthy after midnight when the bustling working room instantly falls quiet –- a second of silence to honor the person mendacity on the desk. That is no peculiar surgical procedure. Detrick Witherspoon died earlier than ever being wheeled in, and now two wide-eyed medical college students are about to get a hands-on introduction to organ donation. They’re a part of a novel program to encourage extra Black and different minority doctors-to-be to become involved within the transplant discipline, growing the belief of sufferers of shade. (Neergaard, 10/24)
The Wall Road Journal:
America’s Most Well-known Neurosurgeon Thinks You Ought to Take A Nap
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the Emmy-winning CNN correspondent, talks about prepping for the working room, remedy apps and the way he stays targeted. (Florsheim, 10/23)
The New York Occasions:
How Local weather Change Is Altering Remedy
Research have discovered charges of PTSD spiking within the wake of disasters, and in 2017 the American Psychological Affiliation outlined “ecoanxiety” as “a power concern of environmental doom.” (Jarvis, 10/21)
The New York Occasions:
A Hospice Nurse On Embracing The Grace Of Dying
A decade in the past, Hadley Vlahos was misplaced. She was a younger single mom, looking for which means and struggling to make ends meet whereas she navigated nursing college. After incomes her diploma, working in instant care, she made the change to hospice nursing and altered the trail of her life. Vlahos, who’s 31, discovered herself drawn to the uncanny, intense and sometimes unexplainable emotional, bodily and mental grey zones that come together with caring for these on the finish of their lives, areas of uncertainty that she calls “the in-between.” (Marchese, 10/21)
The Washington Publish:
Older People Are Dominating Like By no means Earlier than, However What Comes Subsequent?
Virginia Boothe, a palliative care doctor, retired at 69. She liked her work serving to individuals navigate the ultimate chapter of life, nevertheless it was relentlessly making an attempt, one emotionally fraught day mixing into the subsequent. She was able to forged off the burdens of medical forms, the limitless battles with insurance coverage corporations to get her sufferers the therapy they wanted. “I needed to take a step again from human struggling,” she mentioned. (Fisher, 10/24)
The Nation:
A Weekend At Abortion Camp Presents A Glimpse Into The Future Of Abortion Entry
“In post-Dobbs America, affected person navigation isn’t a linear path,” mentioned Amelia Bonow, govt director of the activist group Shout Your Abortion, which organized the occasion. “Entry is a cobbled-together ecosystem of smaller organizations, together with these able to do shit in a post-institutional means, who aren’t ready round for courts, for politicians, for docs, however all our work is simply too siloed. It appears like we’re constructing a brand new system, and we have to do it in-person.” Within the yr after Dobbs, the motion was working in triage mode, and Abortion Camp was conceived as a conclave of types, the place activists may come collectively to have sincere, nuanced conversations in regards to the current and way forward for abortion entry, construct relationships, and loosen up and recharge. There have been individuals current who represented mainstream organizations, people who function underground, and all the pieces in between. The concept was to get all of them in a room the place they may productively and securely discuss to one another about their work, their challenges, and what they wanted from one another. (Grant, 10/26)
The Washington Publish:
The Pandemic Is Over In This Michigan County. The Distrust By no means Ended
In Ottawa County, a fast-growing, middle-class group of about 300,000 individuals on the Lake Michigan shore, battles over masks mandates and whether or not to get vaccinated had divided households and torn aside church congregations. That they had eroded belief not solely in medical specialists and authorities establishments, but additionally amongst neighbors and pals. That they had turned the county, which voted to reelect Donald Trump by 21 factors, into a spot the place the Republican Occasion’s future was taking form. No native establishment confronted extra strain than the county’s 100-person public well being division. Earlier than the pandemic, its employees had drawn little consideration. Well being division staff inspected eating places and sewage techniques. They tracked communicable illness outbreaks and immunized youngsters. (Jaffe andMarley, 10/22)
The New York Occasions:
Roland Pattillo Dies At 89; Physician Championed Henrietta Lacks
Roland A. Pattillo, a gynecologic oncologist who had been treating and researching feminine cancers for many years, had lengthy been haunted by the curious case of Henrietta Lacks, a younger, impoverished Black girl who died of cervical most cancers in 1951 but whose cells lived on and made medical historical past. They had been often called the HeLa cell line, and so they had been used to develop the polio vaccine, therapies for H.I.V. and different landmark medical advances. Like most medical researchers, Dr. Pattillo had recognized in regards to the HeLa cells since he was a graduate pupil. Because it occurred, he had additionally been a fellow within the Johns Hopkins lab in Baltimore that had first cultured them, one of many few Black docs working there within the late Sixties. (Inexperienced, 10/20)
The Washington Publish:
Rising Temperatures, Excessive Climate Threaten To Propel Malaria Unfold
Instances of malaria threaten to extend dramatically from local weather change as rising temperatures push mosquitoes to new areas and lengthen transmission seasons. (Chason, Crowe, Muyskens and Chikwendiu, 10/23)