Ammura Hernandez

Feb 20, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Dennis Hursh |Ammura Hernandez |John Corsino |Robert Berry

As somebody who has reviewed physician employment agreements for 40 years or so, I have to admit I am more than a little jaundiced when it comes to the subject of hospital executive compensation. I’m not altogether convinced that one health system CEO really “earned” the $35.5 million he was reported to have been paid in 2021. I’m sure the pandemic was hard on him. Seeing all those physicians exposing their lives on a daily basis would certainly take it out of a guy.

Jun 11, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Austin Perlmutter |Michele Luckenbaugh |Ammura Hernandez

When I was first paged about Mr. P, I braced myself for the worst. He had already had three “code greys” called—the hospital code for aggressive behavior. When we met him on his hospital bed, he was bound by restraints on his wrists and ankles to protect the staff. He was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for alcohol withdrawal, though the medications used to treat his condition had no effect. Every time I went to his room, he would curse at me.

Mar 12, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Austin Perlmutter |Eva Feder Kittay |Ammura Hernandez |Laura Spiegel

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes!Join us for a touching and insightful episode with Natasha Khalid, a geriatrics fellow, as she shares her personal experience of dealing with ICU psychosis in a loved one. Natasha takes us on a journey through her grandmother’s story of battling Parkinson’s and intestinal obstruction, and her descent into hospital-acquired psychosis.