The doctor becomes a patient
There’s little Michael Dick, MD, hasn’t seen in 27 years in the Emergency Department at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Dr. Dick is medical director of Emergency Medicine at Ohio State East Hospital and professor of Emergency Medicine. His is a physically and emotionally demanding job. But he doesn’t get a reprieve when he takes off his scrubs. He isn’t just fighting on the front lines of COVID-19, he’s also fighting cancer.
Like most Americans, 2020 tested Dr. Dick’s body and psyche. But his battle has been different than most. In the waning months of 2019, he started to feel pain in his neck and shoulders. Reluctant to get it checked out, it soon became impossible to ignore. An X-ray of his thoracic spine a stack of 12 tightly pressed bones in the spinal column revealed a tumor in his lung. A subsequent CT scan revealed another in his liver. The tumors had irritated the nerves in his thoracic spine and all the pain had dum
Updated: 7:36 AM EDT May 1, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio Columbus police say an 18-year-old man was shot in the arm Saturday morning while sitting in a car in the Linden area.
Officers went to the Ohio State East Hospital on a report of a walk-in shooting victim.
A Shotspotter alert showed that the shooting happened in the 1400 block of 1400 Myrtle Avenue after 12:20 a.m.
The victim told police he had been sitting in a vehicle with four friends near Linden Park. Another vehicle then drove by and fired two shots at the car.
The man was hit in the right forearm.
According to authorities, the car that dropped the victim off at the hospital left before officers arrived.
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Dr. Hal Paz, left, is CEO of Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and executive vice president and chancellor for health affairs at Ohio State University. Dr. Joshua J. Joseph is an assistant professor of endocrinology at the OSU College of Medicine.
A few months into the pandemic, the medical community had gathered necessary data to show that face masks, physical distancing and handwashing were most effective in preventing transmission. We also quickly saw the pandemic exacerbate societal inequities that disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minority and other vulnerable populations.
With this knowledge, our team at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center partnered with community organizations, businesses and government to tackle the public health crisis.
A shoot-out outside a Northeast Side grocery store Sunday afternoon left an innocent bystander wounded along with one of the people involved in the shooting, Columbus police say.
Multiple 911 calls about shots fired came in around 2:50 p.m. Sunday from the Save-A-Lot grocery store at 2200 Mock Road near Brentnell Avenue on the Northeast Side. Some witnesses reported hearing 20 or more gunshots.
When officers arrived, they found 59-year-old Kimberly Jackson and 30-year-old Shawn Nooks injured. Police initially believed both Jackson and Nooks were bystanders and not involved in the incident.
Both Jackson and Nooks were taken to area hospitals in critical condition, but their conditions were later upgraded and both are expected to survive their injuries, police said.