There are times when University Medical Center nurse Robin Parks wants to leave her patient’s room and howl in frustration.
“Some families just can’t handle the stigma of someone close to them having HIV, but pneumonia’s OK,” Parks says.
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First, the good news: Surveillance shows that influenza activity remains low in Southern Nevada and throughout the state.
So now it’s come to this: We have to teach preschoolers that it’s good — and fun — to run and jump.
And, oh yes, we also must teach them to ask their parents if they can go out and play.
We were in the fifth grade when my friend David started feeling tired all the time. Instead of wanting to play ball, he wanted to sleep. He complained that his arms and legs hurt. David was dying of leukemia, a form of cancer.
Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang, the first medical director of the Nevada Cancer Institute, will never forget how his association with the nonprofit medical center began.
When she gave her husband a huge bear hug and told him how much she loved him, a breath escaped from his lips. “Are you sure he’s still not with us?” Jean Georges recalls asking a nearby medical attendant through her tears. A little more than a half hour earlier, Leonard Georges, had died from Alzheimer’s disease.
The Nevada Cancer Institute is being sold to the University of California, San Diego Health System. The university will take over all operations at the Las Vegas-based outpatient cancer treatment facility.