Last week in Bakersfield, a nurse at an independent care facility refused to give CPR to an elderly woman who had collapsed, even after a 9-1-1 dispatcher's insistence. Beyond the initial outrage, ethical questions have arisen regarding the administration of CPR to persons in distress.
When is it appropriate to administer CPR? Is the person giving the CPR legally liable should the person die -- or live?
Dr. Edward Schneider, former head of gerontology at USC, joins Val and tries to answer some of these pressing questions.
The image associated with this story shows the Caduceus, a symbol for medicine. (Credit: John Ryan Brubaker/Flickr)
One of the nation's top high school athletes was on a path to the NFL, but instead became the poster child for what's wrong with L.A.'s mental Health system.
A look at the spike in the number of employers retaliating against undocumented workers when they complain of stolen wages. What is the legal loophole that transforms neighborhoods and gets developments built without consent from the community?
With the rise of the super-temp, comes the increase income inequality. What happens when half the workforce are gig workers? SoCal Connected follows an Uber driver who lost his job and is struggling to support his family as an independent contractor. Ho
SoCal Connected takes a deep dive into L.A.'s housing, the idyllic Apricot Farms and the Los Angeles teenager who took on the oil industry, city hall and the Catholic Church to curb urban oil drilling in her neighborhood - and won.
The price of freedom for some in the L.A. County Jail system is simply to high a cost. As much as a quarter of the 17,000 in LA's jails are there simply because they cannot make bail. Condors were close to extinction when officials took an aggressive appr
