Maine Voices: Hospitals deliver better care when nurses unionize
Nurses put patients first, and should have more say in hospital policies than they get without a union.
By Wayne MyersSpecial to the Press Herald
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MaineHealth is a regional hospital and clinic network covering much of southern and midcoast Maine and a bit of New Hampshire. Maine Medical Center, aka Maine Med, is the 800-bed referral hospital and management center for Maine Health. If you live in the service area of MaineHealth you have reason in be interested in the management of Maine Med. A medical emergency could suddenly make you a patient there.
False claims tying coronavirus vaccines to infertility drive doubts among women of childbearing age
Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post
Feb. 22, 2021
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Niharika Sathe, center, an internal medicine physician, is in her second trimester of pregnancy. She decided to get the coronavirus vaccine after investigating false reports that it was linked to fertility issues.Photo for The Washington Post by Rachel Wisniewski
Niharika Sathe, a 34-year-old internal medicine physician in New Jersey, first heard the fertility rumor from another doctor.
The friend confided that she would decline the coronavirus vaccine because of something she d seen online - that the shot could cause the immune system to attack the placenta, potentially leading to miscarriage and infertility. Sathe, who was early in her pregnancy at the time but had not told anyone, spent the next few weeks scrutinizing information from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Soci
Maine has discovered its second case of the more contagious coronavirus variant in a person from York County who recently traveled inside the United States