Susan Park / brookline@wickedlocal.com
A few years ago, Brookline parent Soyoung L. Kim was on a trip to Castle Island with her kids when a stranger began yelling at her over a parking issue.
The man didn t say anything racist, but what I knew in my gut in that moment was that he wouldn’t be yelling at me if I wasn’t Asian, Kim recalled.
Suddenly, a bystander intervened, stepping between the stranger and Kim and telling her, “I am going to stand here and protect you because I am uncomfortable with what I am seeing.”
Reflecting on the moment, Kim said the bystander s actions made her feel safer and comforted her during an upsetting moment.
How to Beat Burnout â Without Quitting Your Job
Weâre all feeling a little fried at work and home. But there are ways to stay sharp and recharge.
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Raise your hand if youâre completely burned out. Your inbox is an overflowing bucket of urgent requests. You are consistently asked to do more with less. Your mind is constantly reshuffling priorities, perpetually calculating the number of minutes left in the day and whether you will have enough time to finish all of your work.
Youâre not alone. The pandemic has left many people fried from trying to juggle work, parenting, caregiving and other responsibilities without enough support.
These are the best hospitals in Massachusetts, according to the spring 2021 Leapfrog safety report
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Healthcare providers in Massachusetts, take a bow.
Hospitals in Massachusetts were ranked first in the nation in Leapfrog’s Spring 2021 hospital safety report.
Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization focused on healthcare safety, has issued the report twice a year since spring 2012. Over the past nine years, three hospitals in Massachusetts have received straight A’s: Beverly Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston, and Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River.
The nonprofit assigns letter grades to over 2,600 hospitals nationwide based on more than two dozen performance measures ranging from “responsiveness of hospital staff” to surgical outcomes and other measures of patient care.
Rest is best, no matter how you get it Credit: Getty Images / Tom Merton Updated April 28, 2021
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Forget Martin Craneâs tatty, tape-covered chair from
Frasier, Joeyâs beloved leather beast from
Friends, and your Granddadâs ragged tufted throne. Recliners are no longer the ugly duckling of home furnishingsâand thereâs generally no need to feel guilty about using one for a bed, either, say medical professionals.
Dr. Deanna OâDwyer, a biology professor and owner of Melrose Family Chiropractic & Sports Injury Centre in Massachusetts, says, âSleep is very reparative physically and neurologicallyâif you donât get sleep, it can lead to a lot of different dysfunctions. I tell my patients that any way they can get sleep is probably better than not sleeping.â
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A new Pfizer pill to treat COVID-19 is in its first phase of trials, and by the end of the year, it could potentially be prescribed as soon as someone gets coronavirus. One can think of it as similar to Tamiflu, but for COVID, said Dr. Michael Misialek of Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Dr. Sabrina Assoumou of Boston Medical Center says the pill would prevent the virus from replicating in our bodies. This one will be an oral antiviral, so unlike Remdesivir, which needs to be IV d, this one will be oral, Assoumou said.