It was about four months ago when the old man was found barely breathing on a sidewalk near downtown.
When he was brought to University Medical Center, he had second-degree burns over much of his body — and administrators say keeping him alive has already cost about $3 million.
Craig and Sharon King of Henderson adopted a baby girl last year. The baby soon needed a liver donation. That’s when Brittney Quirk stepped into the picture.
When the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners undertook an investigation of his practice, Dr. Ralph Conti knew how to act in his best interest.
He thumbed his nose at the agency, not once but twice –in both 2008 and 2010.
In the two weeks before 16-year-old Joe Miller killed himself, he seemed to throw off his despair. He watched his younger brother and sister while his parents were out. He even took his mother out for ice cream three times.
Residents now can discard unwanted or expired prescriptions in drop boxes at five Henderson Police Department locations.
Tormented by disabling treatments, debilitating pain and relentless collection agencies, Ginger Fisher said last year that the interventions to keep her alive caused problems she wished neither she nor her family had to deal with.
Only 39 when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she was 42 when she died recently.
Terrified, Deanna Wise lay in a hospital bed and prayed. Her doctor, a specialist concerned with the care of the mother and fetus in high-risk pregnancies, had told her to get to St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus, immediately.
Crazy. Insane. Ludicrous. Scary.
Words 42-year-old Brenda Bertsch used as part of a monotonic description of her medical situation.
Her physician lost his license and now she couldn’t find another doctor to write her the same prescription for an anxiety medication.
