Medical Lifestyle - New Series!

• A Doctor Gets the Save When a Little League Umpire Collapses When a Little League umpire takes a wild pitch to the neck and collapses with no heartbeat soon after, a surgical oncologist steps in with a major league effort.
  Medscape Medical News, October 23, 2024
• Vacationing Doctors Intervene After a Savage Shark Attack In a scene right out of Jaws, a shark takes a 15-year-old girl's leg and hand in Florida surf, and two doctors on holiday must keep her alive amid the horror.
  Medscape Medical News, September 05, 2024
• 'Blood Everywhere': Nurses Control Intense In-Flight Crisis When an accident on an airplane becomes a bloody emergency, a husband and wife nurse team fight to stabilize an injured passenger.
  Medscape Medical News, August 13, 2024
• 'Just Be Prepared': MD Finds Overdose Victim in an Alley Walking home post-shift, an ER physician stumbled upon an OD in an alley. What happened next changed how he views every doctor's responsibilities outside the clinic.
  Medscape Medical News, June 19, 2024
• Vacationing Doctors Fight to Revive a Drowned Child Married doctors on holiday stumble on an unresponsive boy pulled from a pool and fall back on training: "No medicine, no monitors, nothing but our hands and our breaths."
  Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2024
• 'No Pulse': An MD's First Night Off in 2 Weeks Turns Grave An ICU physician on a night out with friends suddenly found himself working a cardiac arrest in a dark club, music pounding and people crowding.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2024
• EMT Pulls Off Last-Second Freeway Rescue — Dressed as Barbie Driving home from the Barbie movie, an EMT on the verge of quitting saves a life after a violent crash — and rededicates herself to emergency medicine and med school.
  Medscape Medical News, March 01, 2024
• Two Doctors Face Down a Gunman While Saving His Victim A Saturday afternoon turns violent when a man opens fire and two doctors who'd never met must simultaneously help a victim and talk the shooter down.
  Medscape Medical News, February 08, 2024
• A Military Nurse Saves a Life After a Brutal Rollover Crash The victim of a violent car crash had little chance of survival — until a nurse recovering from heart surgery stepped in.
  Medscape Medical News, January 23, 2024
• An ED Nurse Crosses Busy Freeway to Save a Life When a huge cement truck slams into a freeway retaining wall, an ED nurse on her way home jumps in with no equipment to prevent a bleed-out.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2023
• A Mid-Marathon Cardiac Arrest, an MD's Crisis of Confidence A doctor reeling from a career-changing crisis finds himself staring down at a cardiac arrest victim during the New York City Marathon — and does the only thing he knows how to do.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2023
• Heart Doctor Saves a Man's Leg -- and Life -- on NYC Street On a calm Sunday morning, a cardiologist finds a man bleeding out on a New York City street from a freak accident and mystery wound.
  Medscape Medical News, October 20, 2023
• First-Time CPR: Med Students Jump in to Save a Friend A pick-up basketball game takes a terrifying turn when a player experiences cardiac arrest and collapses. His fellow med students get a CPR trial by fire.
  Medscape Medical News, September 19, 2023
• What Can You Do During a Mass Shooting? This MD Found Out A surgeon was in the crowd at a 2017 Las Vegas concert when a shooter opened fire from a hotel window. What happened next was surreal, terrifying, and unforgettable.
  Medscape Medical News, August 16, 2023
• In 133-Vehicle Pileup, Bleeding Paramedic Helps While Hurt Limping and concussed after his SUV is flipped by a semi, a paramedic is the only medical professional on scene with six dead and dozens injured.
  Medscape Medical News, August 02, 2023
• MD Rushes In After Lightning Strikes People at White House When a lightning strike drops four people outside the White House, a doctor in the right place and time tries to save as many as he can.
  Medscape Medical News, June 28, 2023
• Sudden Bedtime Aneurysm Turns MD Couple Into Doctor–Patient What starts as a home medical emergency between married doctors is the beginning of a story of heroic measures and wanting to break all the rules to save a loved one.
  Medscape Medical News, June 21, 2023
• Doctor Spots a Gunshot Victim Staggering Down His Street While making coffee just after rolling out of bed, this MD sees a gunshot victim right outside his front window and must intervene before the man bleeds out.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2023
• Doctor Saves Choking Girl at a Baseball Game An ophthalmologist steps out of his comfort zone to save a little girl's life at a local ballgame ― and contemplates what it means for an MD to be prepared.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2023
• A Baby Stops Breathing at a Grocery Store ― An ICU Nurse Steps In When an infant goes into cardiac arrest in the middle of a store, an ICU nurse with no pediatric experience must begin CPR.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2023