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Patient care workers set to start walkout at five UC hospitals
Respiratory therapists, nursing aides, surgical technicians and other patient care workers plan to stage a walkout starting Tuesday morning at five University of California medical centers. More than 12,000 workers from the American Federation of State,...Tags: Unions, Chemotherapy, Health Treatments, Interior Policy, Career and Workplace
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Court limits number who can strike at UC medical centers
A Sacramento County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that about 450 employees cannot participate in this week's planned walkout at the University of California medical centers. The unions must maintain a minimum level of staffing among certain units,...Tags: Justice System, AFSCME, Medical Specialization, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice
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Letters: Dying but not wanting to know
Re "Prescribing silence," Opinion, May 16 That Dr. Susan Partovi asked a patient if he wanted to know the details of his terminal illness is commendable. But relying on the old standby, "Do you want everything done?" — not so much. The medical...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Pancreatic Cancer, Esophageal cancer, General Practitioners
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Jaron Lanier takes a hard look at the wired world
Jaron Lanier has a research job with Microsoft. He won't go into specfics, but it has something to do with imagining the future and asking questions. Lanier is a longtime Silicon Valley insider whose primary occupation has been to imagine, think and ask...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Entertainment, Media Industry, Xbox 360, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Lebanon border region caught in Syria conflict
ARSAL, Lebanon — When Mustafa Ezzedine, a Sunni Muslim from this Sunni border town, wanted to buy some furniture, he undertook a clandestine trip into war-torn Syria rather than face harassment, or worse, from Shiite Muslim security officers or...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religious Conflicts, Islam, National Government, Wars and Interventions
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Fund set up for victims' families, survivors of Bay Area limo fire
OAKLAND —The Oakland nursing home where all but one of the victims of a horrific Bay Area limousine fire had worked Thursday announced the creation of a fund to support the four survivors and the families of the five women who perished....
Tags: Human Interest, Medical Specialization, Nursing Homes, Bank of America Corp.
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CHP asks mourners not to place tributes at limo fire scene
Authorities on Wednesday asked mourners not to place memorial items on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge where five women died after flames consumed their limousine. Leaving flowers or items on the bridge where the fiery tragedy occurred could create a...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Nursing Homes, Jerry Hill
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Limo fire: U.S., Philippine leaders offer condolences for victims
Government officials from the United States and the Philippines took to social media this week to express condolences to the families of a group of Filipina nurses who died in a Bay Area limousine fire over the weekend. “Condolences to the Fojas...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Philippines, Medical Specialization
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Limo fire: Victim planned Manila hilltop wedding, father says
A woman killed over the weekend in a Bay Area limousine fire was going to have a wedding on a hilltop in the Philippines, her family said. Neriza Fojas, 31, had already had a civil wedding ceremony in Las Vegas with her husband, Carlo Moya, but was...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Philippines, Medical Specialization, Manila (Philippines)
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After hospital care, the test begins
In 2011, my husband, Eric, a trial attorney, was felled by a brain stem stroke just before he was to board a flight at O'Hare in Chicago. He was just 53 years old with no prior health conditions or problems. From the outset, we knew his recovery and...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medical Specialization, Pharmaceuticals, Internists
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Grief and questions surround deadly limo fire
OAKLAND — Grief and disbelief reverberated from the Bay Area to the Central Valley on Monday as questions multiplied about a limousine fire that killed five women and injured four on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. Although officials said they had...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Philippines, Human Interest, Long Term Care, Nursing Homes
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Michael Jackson had skin disease at time of death
Personal details about Michael Jackson were revealed Monday during his family's lawsuit against entertainment giant AEG. Christopher Rogers, the Los Angeles County deputy medical examiner, testified Monday that the 5-foot-9 Jackson weighed only 136...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Propofol (drug), Conrad Murray, Arthritis, Medical Specialization
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