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Doctor, nurse who discharged woman in active labor minutes before birth fired

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/doctor-nurse-who-discharged-woman-in-active-labor-minutes-before-birth-fired/3854369/ https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/new-details-emerge-highway-birth-after-mothers-hospital-discharge A physician and nurse have been fired after a patient in active labor was discharged minutes before she gave birth. Apparently her water broke right...

Nursing, PT, PA will no longer be considered "professional" degrees

Article:https://www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-professional-degree-trump-admin-11079650 "The department determined that the following programs were professional: medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, law, veterinary medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, chiropractic, theology and clinical psychology. This meant...

Influencers made millions pushing wild births now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation The rise of an online traditional birth attending group and the far reaching and deadly consequences of influencer driven anti-medicine sentiment in maternal and neonatal...

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

On Friday at the lunch hour, I went through training for Ambience, our new integrated AI scribe. For some reason, I thought this was...