Patient: It hurts when I do this.
Doctor: Then don t do that.
How that dovetails with cutting technology speaks to the nature of innovation. Greg Gordon, MD, an interventional radiologist, suffered every time he did his job. Discomfort, chronic pain, debilitating back injuries and even dangerous radiation exposure are all part of an interventional radiologist s existence. Gordon couldn t just stop.
But the pain could.
Interventional radiology uses x-rays to help guide equipment like catheters and stents, or monitor blood flow and find blocked arteries.
Fluoroscopic procedures are flooded with radiation, and that adds up over time, so physicians must limit their exposure. They protect themselves with 15- to 30-pound lead-lined garments, which can cause musculoskeletal injuries. Physicians stand in ways that keep them as far removed from the x-ray field as possible. That usually means leaning in odd and uncomfortable angles, and using less-than-preferred surgical techniques.
BY Media Release | February 20, 2021
As part of its continuing effort to address Nebraskaâs nursing shortage, the University of Nebraska Medical Center will offer two new programs: a new masterâs degree program, and a certificate program for internationally educated nurses. In addition, an accelerated option will be offered in the registered nurse to bachelorâs degree in nursing program (RN to BSN).
Applications are being accepted now.
âThere is a critical nursing shortage facing the U.S.,â said Juliann Sebastian, PhD, dean of the UNMC College of Nursing. âNebraska is projected to have a shortage of 4,000 nurses over the next few years. This tremendous need requires creative approaches for expanding educational opportunities for nurses.â
We’ve reached half a million deaths from the coronavirus in the US. But most of these deaths and the grueling medical ordeals leading up to them have remained largely hidden from view. The majority of terminally ill Covid-19 patients typically spend their last days or weeks isolated in ICUs to keep the virus from spreading.
“Most of what I’m seeing is behind closed curtains, and the general public isn’t seeing this side of it,” says Todd Rice, a critical care and pulmonology specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Even “families are only seeing a little bit of it,” he says. As a result, most of us have been “protected and sheltered from seeing the worst of this disease.”
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MILWAUKEE Christian Yelich lunched with Brewers principal owner Mark Attanasio last week in Los Angeles and asked his boss at least four times whether there would be fans in the stands on Opening Day. The Brewers took a significant step this week toward providing Yelich an answer.
The team submitted a 350-page proposal to the City of Milwaukee Health Department calling for 35 percent occupancy at American Family Field the stadium formerly known as Miller Park for the club’s April 1 season opener against the Twins. If approved at that occupancy level, between 14,500 and 16,000 fans and employees would be in the building to begin the season, with hope of increasing attendance throughout the year if health and safety conditions continue to improve.
Grenadian Participates in Prestigious Fulbright Program
Home | News & Events | Grenadian Participates in Prestigious Fulbright Program U.S. Ambassador Linda Taglialatela meets with Grenadian Larissa Mark (right), prior to her departure to the United States.
The U.S. Embassy to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean, and the Organization of the Eastern Caribbean States is pleased to announce the Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship recipients for this academic year. Grenadian Larissa Mark has travelled to Omaha, Nebraska to begin graduate-level studies in Epidemiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, funded by the U.S. Government.
Prior to accepting the Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship award, Ms. Mark was employed by Sandals Grenada Beach Resort and Spa as an Environment, Health and Safety Manager. In 2018, Mark completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the St. George’s University and in 2013, she completed a Master’s in Public H