Medical issues following a disaster

When no one speaks up, silence can become part of the culture of care. 

Need to send your doctor a message? A new study suggests how you write it—not just what you say—may affect whether your doctor responds. 

Learn how to describe a situation that is getting worse and might end in disaster. 

الكارثة 

Disasters don’t just happen. Like anything in life, there’s usually a buildup. In the case of the Chernobyl disaster, the series of failures stretched back more than a decade. But what happened the day before the explosion? 

We can get used to life's ebbs and flows, the constants of normalcy until things change. It can be abrupt, tearing apart the world you thought you knew and you find yourself stumbling into unfamiliar danger. First, Don’t let Grandma see you sneak in. Next, Discover a midnight sna ...  Show more