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<em>Lenox Hill</em>: Portrait of New York City hospital obscures more than it shows

<em>Lenox Hill</em>: Portrait of New York City hospital obscures more than it shows

Netflix is currently streaming the mini-series documentary Lenox Hill, which focuses on four doctors at the hospital of the same name in New York’s Manhattan.The nine-part series has received overwhelmingly positive reviews and attracted a fair amount of public interest, no doubt driven by its concentration on health care workers who have been fighting on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic for almost half a year now.At the center of the series are two neurosurgeons, Dr. David Langer and Dr. John Boockvar, who primarily treat patients with brain tumors; an emergency room (ER) physician,...

July 11, 2020
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US health care system devastated by COVID-19 as the markets clamor to reopen the economy

US health care system devastated by COVID-19 as the markets clamor to reopen the economy

The impact of the pandemic in the United States has been nothing short of cataclysmic. Last week more than 36 million American workers filed unemployment claims. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the official national unemployment rate has reached almost 15 percent—the highest level since the Great Depression—even though the agency acknowledges that the incidence is much higher. The St. Louis Federal Reserve estimates that this could rise to 47 million by the end of the second quarter. An estimated 40 million people are expected to lose health insurance. Over 91,000 people...

May 19, 2020
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