Community Hospital

Despite the importance of the specialty of infectious diseases in modern medicine — made all the more evident by the COVID-19 pandemic — many rural areas of the United States do not have access to specialized ID care.

On June 1, four individuals died in a shooting at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, including orthopedic surgeon, Preston J. Phillips, MD, and sports and internal medicine specialist, Stephanie J. Husen, DO.

General anesthesia used in patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty in the community hospital setting was associated with complications that deterred same-day discharge or failure to launch, results of retrospective study showed.