Fifth-grader Shahbin Hossain and his mother, Samsun Hahar, were recently attempting to cross Durham Park Road in DeKalb County. A private utility truck hit both of them. Hahar was killed, while her son suffered serious injuries. Tragedies like this are nothing new in Georgia. One of the state’s most famous people, “Gone With the Wind”…
“The Ebola Fighters” are Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2014, the magazine announced Wednesday morning. Hours later, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden essentially agreed with that choice, in speaking to the Atlanta Press Club. “It’s the people on the front lines,” said Frieden, when asked about Time’s 2014 selection. “They [the Ebola workers]…
When the first Ebola patient to be treated in the United States was headed for Emory University Hospital this past summer, two of the hospital’s nurses canceled their vacations to be there. That’s how registered nurse Barbara Ribner described the dedication of the Emory nurses who deal with Ebola. Her husband, Dr. Bruce Ribner, is the…
Two years ago, Sicily Kolbeck, 12, of Marietta designed a 128-square-foot house as part of a school project that she planned to work on with her dad. But before the two could complete the tiny house, her father was killed in an automobile accident. With him gone and with grief overcoming his daughter, the construction…
Though aging was beginning to affect his normal activities, retired Col. Irv Schoenberg declared, “I’m not moving again.” And that was that. Between his career in the Air Force and his subsequent career in private business, Schoenberg had lived in nine states, as well as in Asia and Europe. Now, at his home in Dunwoody,…
Is a vacation good for your mental health? And if so, is that a good enough reason to take one? Most people enjoy out-of-town excursions and overseas travels to the Cayman Islands and European cities. Lots of people take them annually. But as another summer begins to fade, many workers may be wondering if a…
In the event of a natural disaster, resilience is a hospital’s prescription for success. It’s all about bouncing back, recovering and then moving forward after a violent weather event. The proper response requires developing plans, then practice, practice, practice — and then putting those measures to work when the moment calls for action. Whether our…
“You call. We haul. That’s all!” That old slogan, which has been applied to ambulance services over the years, may eventually be shelved as emergency medical technicians and paramedics make house calls in Georgia and across the country. The service is called community paramedicine. It combines the old-fashioned house call with the modern mobile team…
A chasm exists in language learning. It involves the cumulative total of words that babies and toddlers hear — and even more importantly, the words they don’t hear. It’s called the “30 million word gap.” “Research shows that by three years of age, children from low-income households hear 30 million fewer words than a child…
The wife of a retired Atlanta physician recently got a stunning lesson when her husband spent some time in a hospital. “We realized there might be a problem when he was not served breakfast along with the other patients,” she said. That was when they were told he had not actually been admitted to the…