Frances Stead-Sellers
Senior Writer at The Washington Post
Associate Editor of the Washington Post.
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Oct 19, 2023 |
washingtonpost.com | Fenit Nirappil |Cate Brown |Sarah Dadouch |Frances Stead-Sellers
CommentSaveThe Gaza Strip’s health-care system stands on the brink of collapse as bombings damage hospitals and ambulances and asgenerators run out of fuel, highlighting how quality medical care is a casualty of war. Dire scenarios await Gaza’s medical professionals. They face dwindling basic resources such as power, water and anesthesia, compelling doctors to confront wrenching decisions on whose lives to save.
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Oct 16, 2023 |
washingtonpost.com | Frances Stead-Sellers
CommentSaveWhen it comes to saving American lives, don’t look to cardiologists, oncologists or even the made-for-TV heroes in the ER. It’s primary-care providers who offer the best hope of reversing the devastating decline in U.S. life expectancy. That’s the conclusion reached by experts who study America’s fractured health-care system.
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May 28, 2023 |
washingtonpost.com | Frances Stead-Sellers
CommentSaveEver since January, when President Biden announced plans for a springtime end to the coronavirus public health emergency, Frank Ziegler has been wrestling with what that would mean for covid long-haulers like him. “The president was telling the U.S. to just move on. The problem is that for however many million of us, we can’t just move on,” said the Nashville attorney, who has endured cognitive impairments since coming down with covid-19 more than two years ago.
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May 26, 2023 |
washingtonpost.com | Frances Stead-Sellers
CommentSaveThe story of Baby Milo’s short life prompted searing reactions from readers, scores of whom emailed The Washington Post, with hundreds more responding on social media. Last November, Milo’s mother, Deborah Dorbert, learned during a routine ultrasound midway through her pregnancy that her baby had a rare and lethal condition known as Potter syndrome. She and her husband made the wrenching decision to terminate the much-wanted pregnancy.
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May 18, 2023 |
washingtonpost.com | Frances Stead-Sellers
Deborah Dorbert looks at a 12-week scan - made well before she found out there were lethal anomalies with her pregnancy. (Photo by Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post)Nobody expected Baby Milo to live a long time. The unusual complications in his mother’s pregnancy tested the interpretation of Florida’s new abortion law.
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