Clinical Care
The transgender community is quietly reinventing the medical paradigm.
Advanced age brings special needs, especially in the emergency department. So some hospitals are changing designs and processes for their senior patients.
Treatment of pulmonary embolisms may benefit from a team approach. But that model faces obstacles inside and outside the hospital.
Peter L. Slavin discusses the importance of giving older inpatients the proper care.
Team care and structural changes could vastly improve the recovery of older patients. Yet institutions that implement such approaches remain rare.
In a noisy, disorienting institutional environment, older patients often fall victim to delirium, a severe mental malady. Geriatric expert Sharon Inouye describes a program that can head off problems.
Hundreds of alarms compete for a clinician’s attention. Can less noise mean better care?
The first issue of Proto looked at comfort care for those with grave illnesses. The field of palliative care has since grown by leaps and bounds.
In this video, Mass General physician Suzanne Koven discusses the power of personal stories inspired by illness.
In this video, MGH researcher Alessio Fasano distills fact from fiction in the gluten wars.
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