Social workers, nurses, therapists, and home health aides provide care that depends not simply on technical skill, but on empathy, dignity, and compassion.
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Scott Levenson,
New York Daily News,
18 Oct. 2026
The high amount of overtime at the mental health department is related mainly to nurses working at the state’s mental health hospitals, Whiting and Connecticut Valley Hospital, which are both in Middletown.
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
18 Oct. 2026
Hundreds of mourners later gathered at Rehman Baba cemetery for mass funeral prayers as grief gripped the neighborhood and announcements echoed from mosque loudspeakers, urging residents to join in prayers for those killed.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Oct. 2026
Under constant threats from above, residents live largely in a spider’s world, with roads, sidewalks and gas stations draped in netting to entangle drones.
Once the hallmark of bikers, sailors, and general riff-raff, tattoos have become far more mainstream, decorating the bodies of everyone from teachers to lawyers to world-class surgeons.
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Mike McRae
October 09,
New Atlas,
9 Oct. 2026
Crafting the ‘nudge’ As an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, Carleton spent two summers working in a Johns Hopkins prostate cancer lab and was surprised to see surgeons making a point to attend the department’s journal club.
Rainn Wilson, known to many as Dwight Schrute from The Office, put in hours with paramedics, EMTs and the South Central Los Angeles Fire Department to prepare for his new paramedic role in the film Code 3, set to hit theaters Friday.
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