HJBR Mar/Apr 2025

+ %5 March / April 2025 I Vol. 18, No. 2 Contents DEPARTMENTS Healthcare Briefs ................................................ 39 Hospital Rounds ................................................. 51 Ad Index .................................................................... 58 CORRESPONDENTS Medicaid .................................................................... 42 Children’s Health ................................................. 44 Nursing ....................................................................... 46 Oncology ................................................................... 48 FEATURES Ring Around the Rosie .................................................. 9 Philip Gatto Terror in New Orleans ................................................. 16 Roundtable with UMC’s Trauma Team Jeanne Marie Baudouin, Emergency Management Coordinator Misty Dufrene, ED Charge Nurse Jeffrey Elder, MD, Chief Medical Officer Patrick Greiffenstein, MD, Medical Director for the Trauma ICU Elizabeth Lacy, EMS Outreach Coordinator Meghan Maslanka, MD, Director of Emergency Management What’s Wrong with Healthcare? Part 1: The History of Health Insurance ........ 32 Kenny J. Cole, MD, MHCDS Value-Based Healthcare Correspondent 16 OPINION Healthcare Without the Patient: Only in America ............................................................... 56 J. Benton Dupont, MD, FACS Clinical Professor of Surgery LSU Health Science Center New Orleans, Retired 32