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- Our Methodology: How We Ranked the Best Hospitals in 52 Metro Areas
- Health Buzz: Romantic Rejection Causes Physical Pain
| How to Find the Best Hospital Near You Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:01 PM PDT This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Our Methodology: How We Ranked the Best Hospitals in 52 Metro Areas Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:01 PM PDT This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Health Buzz: Romantic Rejection Causes Physical Pain Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PDT Study: Romantic Rejection Hurts Like Physical Pain There's a reason they call it a broken heart: Romantic rejection causes physical pain, new research suggests. Psychologists studied 40 recently-dumped volunteers who reported intense feelings of rejection when thinking about the breakup. All underwent four MRI brain scans, including one while looking at a photo of their ex and thinking about the split, and one while viewing a friend's photo and thinking good thoughts about that person. Another scan took place as the volunteers wore an arm device that produced a gentle, comforting warmth, and yet another when the device was hot enough to cause pain. During each of the two negative situations—when the volunteers thought about the breakup and when they experienced a burning sensation—the same brain regions associated with physical pain lit up, suggesting physical pain and the pain of rejection hurt in a similar way, according to the study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Interestingly, when the researchers analyzed 150 past brain-scan experiments on negative emotions, they found that none activated the brain's physical sensory areas like romantic rejection did. "There may be something special about rejection," study author Edward Smith, a psychology professor at Columbia University, told Bloomberg. "No other negative emotion, not anger and not fear, elicits reactions in the pain matrix of the brain." New Rankings: How to Find the Best Hospital Near You Some Americans are fortunate enough to live down the street from a world-class hospital. For them, where to go for highly skilled care is clear. For most of us, though, finding a hospital that offers both excellent care and local convenience has long been a challenge. Healthcare consumers have faced a dearth of reliable information about how the hospitals near them stack up. The problem is most acute in large metropolitan areas, which are crowded with hospitals that offer varying degrees of expertise across a range of medical specialties. In principle, going to a renowned medical center such as one of the nationally ranked U.S. News Best Hospitals is a solid option. But that could be difficult if it requires travel, expensive if not covered by insurance, and unnecessary except in the most challenging medical cases. No wonder most hospital patients stay close to home. To take a bite out of their guesswork, U.S. News tapped its latest annual evaluation of the nation's nearly 5,000 hospitals and, for the first time ever, ranked the best ones in the 52 U.S. metropolitan areas with 1 million or more residents. This week's release of those rankings represents the largest expansion of U.S. News Best Hospitals since the annual rankings began more than two decades ago. To find the best hospital nearby, check out the hospital rankings for your area. The New York City area, with 66 ranked hospitals, has more than any other metro area. The next-largest metro areas are L.A., Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Philadelphia. [How to Find the Best Hospital Near You]
How We Ranked the Best Hospitals in 52 Metro Areas Atlanta's Emory University Hospital is among the nation's elite medical centers. It is one of only 152 of the country's 4,852 hospitals to be named a U.S. News Best Hospital in even a single specialty in the 2010-11 national rankings. And while most of the 152 are ranked in just a few of the 16 specialties that Best Hospitals covers, Emory is ranked in 11. Fifteen minutes away, on the other side of the Northeast Expressway, Piedmont Hospital is less well known. Nevertheless, it is among the best hospitals in the Atlanta area. Newly expanded U.S. News rankings of hospitals in the 52 most-populous metropolitan areas show that, in 11 specialties, Piedmont offers Atlantans high-quality care. In those specialties, which include cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, and orthopedics, its performance puts it above most other hospitals that are not nationally ranked. Piedmont is among 622 metro-area hospitals now recognized by U.S. News. The new rankings, the largest expansion of Best Hospitals to date, offer patients and their families a much better chance of finding a top-performing hospital in their health insurance network. And for patients who would need to travel to visit a nationally ranked hospital, the metro rankings may offer a local alternative—or several. [Read more: How We Ranked the Best Hospitals in 52 Metro Areas.] This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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