When nurse Abby Hudema talks about why the University Medical Center pediatric intensive care unit staff follows infection control policies so closely — it was one of only five such units nationwide to earn the Consumer Reports’ top rating for preventing bloodstream infections in 2012 — she recalls a scene that at first blush doesn’t seem to have much to do with preventing bacteria from entering the bloodstream.
Marina Alvarez holds her 14-month-old son Esteban and kisses the chunky toddler on the cheek as she talks with her neighbor Thomas Locke in the front yard of her northeast Las Vegas home.
If you believe the great writer Oscar Wilde — “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” — the past week was a great one for those trying to make medical tourism a substantial part of the economic engine of Southern Nevada.
It’s a topic that’s become a part of the national conversation, almost as much as unemployment and same-sex marriage.
He sits there day after day in the courtroom staring straight ahead through custom eyeglasses, his eyes wide, wide open.
It eats at Dr. Michael Casey when someone with minor injuries dies, seemingly giving up the will to live.
With good reason –– it’s more than 100 degrees in the shade –– you are being inundated with media reports about the effects of heat.
