Subject: Emergency Medicine

• Cover Story: Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital

  May 8, 2008

• Breaking: Crisis Over?

  August 5, 2008

• Nowhere to Land

  Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy

  August 24, 2000

• A Night in the Tub

  An angel named Grace, a doctor who's a real Trip and fresh gore flooding the ER -- the new Ben Taub gets old quick

  September 6, 2001

• Texas Receives A Gentlemen's C For Its Emergency Rooms

  The bright side of the latest report by the American College of Emergency Physicians is that Texas did not get a failing grade in its efforts to provide emergency-room access and care to residents.On the other hand, we're not making the Honor Roll or anything.ACEP gave Texas a C, placing it 29th among the states in terms of ER care.How do we suck? Let us count the ways.

  December 9, 2008

• Psychotic Reaction

  October 6, 1994

• Trauma Mama

  October 16, 1997

• Rodney Laney

  January 15, 2009

• Reality Check

  Houston is scrambling for psychiatric and emergency medical services. But hoping for better state funding is just another psychotic episode.

  July 25, 2002

• There's a Morning-After Drug to Prevent HIV Infection

  The treatment is called post-exposure prophylaxis. So why do so few medical groups in Houston know about it?

  June 5, 2008

• College Immaterial for High School Students in Vocational Training

  Good paying jobs, no huge loan burdens, exciting course work — the new vo-tech attracts more and more hi-tech students

  May 15, 2008

• Lawyers Avoid Medical Malpractice Cases when Patient is Poor

  January 10, 2008

• Fighting for Air: Drowning and the Heimlich Maneuver

  October 11, 2007

• Dr. Feelgood

  You're not a doctor, but Trauma Center lets you play one on TV.

  January 25, 2007

• Letters

  July 28, 2005

• Best Renovation Project

  September 23, 2004

• Bloodless Coup

  There'll be no waivers for patients in this experimental blood-substitute program

  March 4, 2004

• Best Loyal Houston Press Reader

  September 20, 2001

• Mental Lapse

  Increasing deficits cause MHMRA to close a new treatment clinic

  March 1, 2001

• Upstairs Down - and Out?

  A money-starved mental health treatment unit may die in its infancy

  February 1, 2001

• Not Your Grandma's Girl Scouts

  Rachelle Anderson just took super Girl Scout honors. And it wasn't hustling cookies that got her there.

  March 23, 2000

• Drowning on Dry Land

  Rising asthma rates have experts scratching their heads - and children struggling to breathe

  February 3, 2000

• Mortal Soul

  Scorsese and Cage elevate the EKG of the mean streets

  October 21, 1999

• Bloodsoaked

  May 7, 2009

• Life, Post-Ike: A Full Recovery

  September 10, 2009