Tag: Atlanta
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Grady Memorial Hospital
Umut AkovaAtlanta, Georgia, United States In late 1889, during the years following Reconstruction, the Atlanta councilman Joseph Hirsch introduced a resolution to create a public hospital in honor of journalist Henry W. Grady, who had become a major force in Georgia politics and advocated for a public city hospital. By September 1890, the city had purchased a…
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Ada English: The forgotten fighter
Laura KingAtlanta, GA, United States A reformer of psychiatric care, a fighter for Irish independence, and a forgotten figure in Irish history—that was Dr. Adeline (Ada) English. As a female physician working in Ireland from the beginning to the middle of the 1900s, English faced obstacles because of both her sex and her politics. However,…
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Ebola on this side
Elisabeth Preston-HsuAtlanta, Georgia, United States In September 2014, my husband Chris boarded a plane from Atlanta, Georgia for the Democratic Republic of Congo, his first trip to Africa for work. We had just moved back to Atlanta two months before when he started a new career with the Centers for Disease Control. He would spend…
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Problems with medical records
George Dunea When Lawrence Weed first unveiled his vision for reforming medical record documentation, he unleashed a revolution that captivated the imagination of the medical public but may also have brought about unintended consequences from which we suffer even today. Dr. Weed first published his new method in 1967.1 A few years later, in 1972,…