Editor's Note: This story was updated Dec. 9, 2021, to include news
that Darcy Havel-Sturdevant contracted COVID-19 again.
The migraines, exhaustion and shortness of breath have
Despite all of the reporting, public announcements and warnings from health care professionals, community leaders and elected officials, health care workers IowaWatch spoke with as 2020 drew to a close said many people still don’t understand the severity of suffering that the people hit hardest with
Although it’s been around since at least the mid-1990s, telehealth has been slow to catch on before this spring, said Mei Kwong, executive director for the Center for
Iowa hospital representatives are not surprised by an American College of Emergency Physicians survey revealing that nearly 50 percent of emergency physicians have been physically assaulted on the job. An IowaWatch supplement to a FairWarning story.
Slaps, kicks, bites and curses are daily hazards faced by staff in hundreds of emergency rooms. And the threat of workplace violence seems to be getting worse.
The increasing use in the health care arena of trauma-informed care in treating victims of child abuse and other trauma is rooted in the war experiences of battled-scared veterans of the Vietnam War.
The federal government has taken steps aimed at reducing the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a serious health threat that sickens an estimated 2 million people in the United States each year. But nobody knows if those steps — many focused on monitoring the antibiotics given to cattle, hogs
