Going Gentle Into That Good Night

"Do not go gentle into that good night"--Dylan Thomas.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

In the past decade, more than 800 United States hospitals closed their doors forever. Many were psychiatric hospitals. Mental health professionals should be especially aware of the pain that hospital closure may cause for patients, staff, families, and communities and how the adverse effects of their varied grief reactions may last for years. Responsible clinical and administrative leaders can ...

CHAPTER THREE AIR QUALITY Steven

Introduction Lake Tahoe resides in a high elevation basin separated from the Sacramento Valley by the dominant Sierra Nevada divide along the Crystal Range. Lower ridges of the Carson Range to the east separate the lake from the Great Basin. These physical attributes define atmospheric processes in the Tahoe basin as much as define hydrological processes. The presence of the cold lake at the bo...

When the walls listened.

I was my seventh consecutive night on duty, and it seemed by now that I could give the 11:00 p.m . report as well as the nurse who was going off. It was usually a busy intensive care unit, but for some time the patients had been fairly stable and the census low. So my interest was piqued when she said we had a new patient. Mark, 25 years old, had been thrown from his motorcycle earlier that eve...

Going to sleep in the supine position is a modifiable risk factor for late pregnancy stillbirth; Findings from the New Zealand multicentre stillbirth case-control study

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to test the primary hypothesis that maternal non-left, in particular supine going-to-sleep position, would be a risk factor for late stillbirth (≥28 weeks of gestation). METHODS A multicentre case-control study was conducted in seven New Zealand health regions, between February 2012 and December 2015. Cases (n = 164) were women with singleton pregnancies and late s...