Here are the six most-read hospital-physician issues stories for the week of April 10.
1. Physician dragged from overbooked United flight
Numerous social media posts depict a man being forcibly removed from an overbooked United Airlines flight scheduled to fly from Chicago to Louisville, Ky., April 9.
2. Physician from United flight identified
The identity of the man dragged from the overbooked United Airlines flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville, Ky., has been revealed: David Dao, MD, a pulmonologist from Elizabethtown, Ky.
3. Medical resident pens letter to Tom Price: ‘Remember the lessons you learned at Grady’
An internal medicine resident at Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital penned a letter in STAT to HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, asking him to remember the many “Grady stories” he collected during his time as a resident and faculty member at the hospital and to keep those patients and their stories in mind as he crafts the nation’s healthcare policy.
4. Women surgeons are recreating this New Yorker cover
Female surgeons around the world are taking up the #ILookLikeASurgeon mantra once again, this time with photographic replications of cover art featured on an issue of The New Yorker.
5. Quotes from the Front Lines: ‘People call us on the worst day of their life and we’re there to help’
For one paramedic, the thrill of emergency care is knowing you have the potential to change someone’s life for the better.
6. Henry Ford physician hurt after stopping to help car crash victims dies
A Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System physician who was hit by an oncoming vehicle after stopping to help victims of an earlier car collision died April 5.
More articles on hospital-physician relationships:
Medical resident pens letter to Tom Price: ‘Remember the lessons you learned at Grady’
Quotes from the Front Lines: School nursing isn’t all ‘bellyaches and band-aids’
UCSF Fresno names chief of emergency medicine
