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TL/DR - Dr. Caleb Stalls, an anesthesiologist in Florida, has been fined $10,000 and required to take three five-hour continuing medical education courses following an incident in which a 72-year-old lung surgery patient died. The Florida Board of Medicine's decision comes two and a half years after an insurance company paid out $1 million in…

TL/DR - Mission’s Children’s Hospital in Asheville has installed a new bell for young cancer patients to ring upon completion of their treatment, a project realized through the efforts of Clinical Nurse Supervisor Meg Kerr and Biltmore blacksmith Steve Schroeder, whose son was a former patient at the hospital. The first child to ring the bell was…

TL/DR - Donald Trump cast himself as a key ally for gun owners and gun businesses at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting, where he received an endorsement. Trump suggested that under President Biden, the right to bear arms was under threat, and pledged to roll back every Biden attack on the Second Amendment should he be re-elected.…

TL/DR - A 20-year-old man named Bobby Freeman was arrested in downtown Phoenix after allegedly assaulting three police officers, one of whom was a woman, by punching and biting them. The incident occurred around 10 a.m. near 1st Street and Fillmore Street after Freeman allegedly attempted to stab an unknown person and then fled the police. He was…