We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2019
As we look back on 2019, we at STAT find ourselves a little jealous.
There has been a lot of stellar health and science journalism this year, and below is a roundup of the stories we wish we had written.
And we’d be remiss if we didn’t admit the origins of this annual tradition — Bloomberg Businessweek did it first, and head over there for more great reads.
19 years old, in jail and begging to go to the hospital
Story by Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN Investigates
Photographs by Melissa Lyttle for CNN
Teaira Shorter’s appendix ruptured while she was in jail, serving time for minor offenses such as not wearing a seatbelt. She began to experience symptoms while in custody but her pleas for medical help were ignored for days — which ultimately resulted in a life-threatening infection.
This investigation of an individual case sheds light on institutional problems in our foster care and prison system that put vulnerable populations at terrible risk. Melissa
