Emergency Medicine

Cover Story: Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital

Breaking: Crisis Over?

Nowhere to Land

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

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

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 amo ... More >>

Psychotic Reaction

Need emergency psychiatric care in Harris County? Have a seat. Or call a cab.

Trauma Mama

Leandra Vilardi works at the city's busiest emergency room. She only wishes it were busier.

Rodney Laney

How funny is a knife in your head?

Reality Check

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

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?

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

Lawyers Avoid Medical Malpractice Cases when Patient is Poor

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

Fighting for Air: Drowning and the Heimlich Maneuver

Most doctors say the Heimlich maneuver should not be used to save drowning victims. So why does UH professor John Hunsucker continue to teach it to lifeguards?

Dr. Feelgood

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

Letters

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

Best Renovation Project

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

Bloodless Coup

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

Best Loyal Houston Press Reader

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Mental Lapse

Increasing deficits cause MHMRA to close a new treatment clinic

Upstairs Down - and Out?

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

Not Your Grandma's Girl Scouts

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

Drowning on Dry Land

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

Mortal Soul

Scorsese and Cage elevate the EKG of the mean streets

Bloodsoaked

Scorsese and Cage elevate the EKG of the mean streets

Life, Post-Ike: A Full Recovery

Just when it looked like UTMB might leave Galveston forever, local legislators saved it.

Cutout Bin: Country Songs for Paramedics, Such As "Haul and Run"

​ EMS Country Express You Respond to Everyone But Me: Songs for the EMT (ETI Emergency Training, 1981) Nearly every occupation has its token LP. There are records for doctors and nurses, lawyers and ministers, cabbies and card sharks. But as far as Cutout Bin knows, this is the only record made fo ... More >>

Little Joe Washington Hospitalized In Ben Taub ICU

[Updated at 2:33 p.m. with information from Reg Burns, who saw Joe at the hospital Monday and has more information on his condition.] Mark Britain Little Joe Washington at House of Blues, May 8, 2010​Little Joe Washington is in the intensive care unit of Ben Taub Hospital after undergoing e ... More >>

The State Bar & Lounge's Gypsy Martini

[Updated at 2:33 p.m. with information from Reg Burns, who saw Joe at the hospital Monday and has more information on his condition.] Mark Britain Little Joe Washington at House of Blues, May 8, 2010​Little Joe Washington is in the intensive care unit of Ben Taub Hospital after undergoing e ... More >>

Stirred & Shaken: The State Bar & Lounge Gypsy Martini

Troy FieldsState Bar & Lounge Gypsy Martini​I was driving downtown for nearly five minutes before I realized the radio station I was tuned to had lapsed into static. It had been that kind of day. I had plans that evening, though, and needed something to reanimate me, so I claimed a meter outs ... More >>

Happy Hour Scene: Hefley's

Photos by Paul Knight​The Place: Hefley's 138 West Gray St. 713-527-8100The Hours: Monday through Friday 4-7 p.m. All day Wednesday. The Deals: Domestic beers are $2.50 and imports are a dollar more. There are also nightly drink and food specials, like 25 cent wings on Wednesday. Happy hour is all ... More >>

Texans Keep Out The Riff-Raff With New Tailgating Policy

Photo by Chasen MarshallBetter have game tickets, dudes​Remember that great tailgating scene outside of the Texans-Cowboys game?Remember it well, because it won't happen again.The Texans have announced a new policy after approximately 20,000 (they say) non-ticketed tailgaters took to the Reliant S ... More >>

FAIR-y Tales: Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

Photo by Chasen MarshallBetter have game tickets, dudes​Remember that great tailgating scene outside of the Texans-Cowboys game?Remember it well, because it won't happen again.The Texans have announced a new policy after approximately 20,000 (they say) non-ticketed tailgaters took to the Reliant S ... More >>

Four Loko Madness On Rice Campus: EMS Calls Jump, Friends Left Abandoned

Sammy the Owl is drunk and abandoned​The scourge of Four Loko is turning Rice University into a depraved, body-strewn landscape where desperate students guzzle the possibly deadly drink with scant consideration of the niceties of society. At least that's the only conclusion we can draw from a ... More >>

Alleged Scrap-Metal Thief Dies In HPD Custody After Chase

Foot chase proves fatal for 42-year-old​The Houston Police Internal Affairs division is investigating the death of a man who was in police custody after a foot chase yesterday afternoon. Craig Campbell, 42, was trying to sell some scrap metal to a dealer just outside the South Loop near 288 a ... More >>

BREAKING: Rapper Rick Ross Unconscious After Seizure

UPDATE: Ricky Rozay is tweeting from the hospital, so all seems well. That is the great arbiter in determining someone's health, tweeting. If they can't tweet, then something must be very, very wrong. Or they are sleeping. Photo By Marco Torres​Frequent Houston performer Rick Ross is current ... More >>

Music Editor Chris Gray Had Luck On His Side When He Had His Heart Attack

Houston's very own Randolph Mantooth​John P. Zepeda of the Metro PD's canine squad had performed a routine bomb search at the Ensemble light-rail station October 28. Finding nothing, he tried to head back. But train after train was filled with morning commuters headed downtown, so he and his ... More >>

Music Editor Chris Gray's Heart Attack: The Video

Consider yourself rescued​We've obtained security-cam footage of the morning when Houston Press music editor Chris Gray suffered a heart attack at a Metro light-rail station. Chris is recovering nicely, due in no small part to prompt action by a good samaritan and two Metro police officers. ( ... More >>