Your grief is immeasurable, and the way that your life has changed can’t be described. You expected that your loved one would be treated with reasonable care whether your loved one sought care at Norton’s Healthcare, Jewish Hospital, Baptist Hospital, University Hospital, or another facility….
Your daughter was just hit in the head with a baseball, and the emergency medical technician suspects a traumatic brain injury. What medical professionals do in the next few hours is crucial to saving your daughter’s life; what they do in the upcoming months may…
You receive the phone call from your mother: Your favorite uncle just died while undergoing a common surgical procedure, and the surgeons are not sure why he died. “They just don’t know,” your mother says. “Dr. Markus said it may have been malignant hyperthermia.” What?…
You woke up in the emergency room after an accident—scared, hurting, but lucky to be alive. You were told that you suffered a mild traumatic brain injury, which sounds worse than it really is. When you went home a few hours later with nothing more…
As I’m sure all Kentuckians are aware, breathing is the most essential of the human body’s needs. Humans can survive for about a month without food—longer or shorter periods if one is over- or underweight to begin with. We can live about a week without…
Birth is a natural process. Most living creatures give birth with no assistance, but humans are different. Humans have a variety of devices and procedures to help in the birth process: forceps, vacuum extractors, labor-inducing drugs, and cesarean section, to name a few. These aids…