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After Gov. Scott Walker unveiled the Wisconsin budget repair bill in February 2011, which sought to end collective bargaining for most public sector unions, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Madison in opposition. Protestors are seen here in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol on March 12, 2011, a day after the bill was passed. A recent poll found that over two-thirds of Democrats, Republicans and independents feel very or somewhat concerned about the current state of American democracy. Photo by Richard Hurd. (CC BY 2.0)
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MAYWOOD, Ill., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Luis A. Fernandez, MD, FACS, is the new division chief, intra-abdominal transplantation at Loyola Medicine. Dr. Fernandez is a world-renowned transplant surgeon specializing in pancreas, liver, islet cell and renal transplantation.
Luis A. Fernandez, MD, FACS, is the new division chief, intra-abdominal transplantation at Loyola Medicine
Dr. Fernandez comes to Loyola from the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics where he was the director of the UW Liver Transplant Program and the co-director of the Islet Cell Transplant Program. He was also a tenured professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has made significant regional and national contributions to the field of transplantation as the Region 7 Councilor for the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and as a member of the UNOS Executive Committee.
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In the early weeks of the pandemic, New Yorkers paused every evening at seven o’clock to applaud the city’s frontline healthcare workers. The cheers, honking, and clattering of pots and pans could be heard from windows, fire escapes, and street corners as the city saluted those who repeatedly put themselves at risk for others. But as an August essay in the
New York Times Magazine showed, many of these same frontline workers felt less supported in the hospitals where they were struggling to treat patients.
From the Special Series:
The story begins at a May conference meeting at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, which at the time had treated more Covid-19 patients than any other hospital in the country. The frontline physicians were exhausted and emotionally drained; they had spent months making grueling decisions about patient treatment, often at risk to their own health. Mangala Narasimhan, an intensive-care do