Two out of three pain specialists experience severe burnout, in some cases compromising the treatment of patients. Australian social psychologist Claire Ashton-James said chronic patient pain was increasing and so too the prevalence among their specialists of burnout—a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors. During the COVID-19 pandemic, burnout levels worsened. Speaking to…

Medical laboratory professionals form the backbone of health care and the public health system. They conduct some 13 billion laboratory medicine tests annually in the U.S. As of January 2022, these individuals had also performed more than 860 million COVID-19 tests and counting during the pandemic. Why should anyone care? Laboratory testing is the single…

JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that Israel would offer a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to people over 60 and to medical staff. Israel last week approved a fourth dose of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, a second booster, for people who are immune-compromised and the elderly living in care homes….

Nurses and health care workers across the country are finding strength in numbers and with labor actions not seen in years. In California, which has a strong union tradition, Kaiser Permanente management misjudged workplace tensions during the covid-19 crisis and risked a walkout of thousands when union nurses balked at signing a four-year contract that…

This nurse went the extra mile to bring some desperately needed comfort to the sick. She’s an angel!