Imagine this. You wake up Saturday morning, and your eye is stuck together with a yellow-green discharge. You’ve had pink eye before, and this feels like it. Unfortunately, it’s a long weekend due to a holiday, and your doctor’s office isn’t open until Tuesday. You...
Medicare data finds that the average wait in Fresno’s Community Regional Medical Center is just under 4 ½ hours. The hospital’s emergency department treats more than 60,000 patients annually. That’s just one area hospital with long wait times. Others in the Fresno...
Fresno’s proximity to the Sierra Nevada draws people outdoors. Exploring three of California’s best national parks – Kings Canyon, Sequoia, and Yosemite – is fun, but in dry weather, dehydration is a risk. Dehydration is more than being thirsty. When you’re...
Have you ever been in a busy medical waiting room and cringed every time a sick patient coughs or sneezes? Do you find it impossible to get time off to see a doctor at the Urgent Care due to your work schedule or short lunch breaks? Maybe you’re elderly and leaving...
Flu season is underway. The week ending September 20th (Week 38) saw 45,194 flu tests performed, and 160 of them were positive. It may not seem like a lot, but we haven’t even started to enter peak flu season. Looking at the past month’s increased number of...
Workers expect to be relatively safe when they’re on the job. Yet, every 99 minutes in 2023, someone in the U.S. died while working. That’s just work-related deaths. If you look at deaths alone, the statistics show the following percentages. Transportation incidents –...
