Medical staff are outnumbered and working sick as the nation’s health care system buckles under the strain of a spiraling crisis.
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One Day With an Ambulance in Britain: Long Waits, Rising Frustration
Britain is experiencing a crisis in ambulance response times, part of a broader breakdown in the country’s revered National Health Service. We rode with one crew to witness the problems in real time.
The Power of Paxlovid
The underuse of Covid treatments is leading to many needless deaths.
Emergency Rooms Across Canada Close Amid Nursing Shortage
A nationwide shortage of nurses has caused dozens of emergency rooms across Canada to close temporarily and forced some patients to wait days for a bed.
‘Get the Stretcher!’ Life and Death on Ukraine’s Front Line
On another day of scorched-earth artillery barrages in the east, a team of Ukrainian medics did their best to stabilize and assure the survivors, with the din of war all around.
In Ukraine, Gruesome Injuries and Not Enough Doctors to Treat Them
Operating with skeleton crews, doctors and nurses race to save limbs, and lives. It’s a grim routine for medical personnel often working around the clock. And not all limbs can be saved.
Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.
Palestinian Gunman Kills 5 in Israel’s Fifth Attack in Recent Days
The attack in a Tel Aviv suburb brought the number of people killed in the past two weeks to 11, making it one of the deadliest periods in Israel in several years.
As Fighting Gets Closer, a Kyiv Hospital Treats the War’s Atrocities
As Russian bombings have grown more indiscriminate, hospitals in Ukraine have become perilous places to work.
Doctors Strike Over Understaffing Disrupts Delhi Hospitals
While the country’s overall case count remains low, daily infections in the capital region have risen by more than 300 percent over the past two weeks.