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Doctors and nurses taking care of patients in ICU at hospital during COVID-19 (Getty Images)

More than 2,900 health care workers died this year — and the government barely kept track

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The looming showdown in Congress: Protecting workers vs. protecting employers in the pandemic

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“Moral injury”: doctors are fed up in a health system that prioritizes profit over quality care

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“I feel like I’m in jail”: Hospital alarms torment patients

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“Fear of falling”: How hospitals do even more harm by keeping patients in bed

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Dementia and guns: when should doctors broach the topic?

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Unlocked and loaded: Families confront dementia and guns

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FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2015 file photo, an elderly couple walks down a hall in Easton, Pa. It's not too late to get moving: Simple physical activity, mostly walking, helped high-risk seniors stay mobile after disability-inducing ailments even if, at 70 and beyond, they'd long been couch potatoes. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (AP)

As Trump targets immigrants, elderly brace to lose caregivers

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Doctors learn how to talk to patients about dying

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As care shifts from hospital to home, guarding against infection falls to families

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Dying at home in an opioid crisis: Hospices grapple with stolen meds

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Target of Medicare insider trading case boasted he was “unstoppable at best”

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