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A little privacy, please

Back in the day, this newspaper (and plenty of others) used to publish a daily list of hospital admissions and discharges. It had high readership. If it was omitted, which occasionally happened, we...

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This encounter is being recorded

Better not bring your smartphone or pocket-size digital recorder to Dr. David Troxel’s office – and don’t even think about recording your conversation with the doctor so you can remember the details...

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Patient privacy vs. the urge to snoop

When nearly a dozen teens and young adults were hospitalized last year after overdosing on a designer drug at a party in the Minneapolis suburb of Blaine, some hospital employees apparently couldn’t...

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You’ll like sharing your hospital room. Really.

American hospitals have spent millions of dollars scrapping old-fashioned patient wards and double rooms in favor of private hospital rooms for everyone. But maybe this strategy is entirely...

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