Publisher: Daily Memphian


Critics urge caution before biting off nearly $1 billion Regional One project

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Scott Morris still has a little trouble wrapping his head around the enormity of a price tag that stretches beyond $900 million.


Does Memphis need a new Regional One hospital? For some, the answer is a resounding yes.

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The alert crackled across the intercom late on a recent Thursday afternoon at Regional One Health: Helicopter inbound, 15 minutes out, Level 1 trauma.


The Early Word: Meet Memphis

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Dr. Jessica Snowden has a big, fancy job title: vice chancellor for research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. But years ago, she was just a smart kid from a rural Louisiana town who became the first in her family to go to college.


The AM/DM podcast: In med school, students can do no harm to first patient

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One of the first classes medical students take is gross anatomy. They first learn about the human body during a lecture and then it’s onto the lab, where their first patient — a donor body — awaits them.


The ‘life-changing’ lessons medical students learn from dissecting cadavers

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Ellen “Faye” Brooks loved life. She loved cooking, traveling, playing cards and gathering with her big family: her three children, nine grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.


The Early Word: Task Force effect on suburbs; CBU class on Grauer murders

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Welcome to another work week, Memphis.


A stable for the Sheriff’s Office mounted-patrol unit. A bomb-squad robot. A new county medical examiner.

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The Shelby County Board of Commissioners votes Monday, Feb. 2, on Dr. Scott Collier’s appointment by County Mayor Lee Harris as Shelby County medical examiner.


Movers & Shakers

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Saint Francis Healthcare recently announced the appointment of Ambrosia Scott as Market Therapy Director.