In the near future, your car will call 9-1-1 if it crashes.
Upon impact, a device called an event data recorder will send information to the local 9-1-1 call center. Dispatchers will be able to...
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Dr. Nathan White is an emergency-medicine specialist at Harborview.
Nathan White
A small, plastic-and-silicon card to...
After suffering a traumatic injury, many people are concerned about more than their physical well-being. Worries can mount about how the injury will affect their employment and financial security,...
Zack Lystedt's long road back from a 2006 head injury included moments of bliss this past weekend. Not only did he watch his beloved Seahawks win the Super Bowl, but he and his parents were at the...
Zac Vawter of Seattle lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. Harborview Medical Center orthopedic surgeon Doug Smith redirected nerves in Vawter's leg, enabling him to use a new model of prosthesis...
Each year, the UW Medicine Regional Burn Center at Harborview Medical Center sees nearly 1,000 patients, 300 of whom have scald injuries.
A scald occurs when skin is burned by something wet, such as...
With an intricately woven wire tree adorned with a swing and a bench, Dr. Niousha Saghafi won the annual Department of Orthodontics wire sculpture contest for first-year residents. The contest, first...
A week before Thanksgiving in 2008, Eric Seitz, a homeless youth, arrived in Harborview Medical Center with a flesh-eating disease -- the result of injecting drugs with a dirty needle. He was in a...
On her lunch break, Katharine Barrett sought an island of tranquility away from the bustle of Harborview Medical Center’s Pathology Department. A short walk and four flights of stairs later, she...
When medical student Jory Wasserburger served a rotation in a Wyoming family physician’s office last year, the doctor wondered about the high number of child patients who had untreated tooth decay....