From the monthly archives:

November 2005

November 30, 2005

Not happy with his malpractice defense, a doctor sues the law firm that defended him.

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November 30, 2005

The next part of the NY Times’ excellent “On being a patient” series: Why doctors’ don’t listen.
Ms. Wong had come across a bane of the medical profession: the difficult doctor. These doctors may be arrogant or rude, highhanded or dismissive. They drive away patients who need help, and some have been magnets for malpractice claims.
And [...]

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November 30, 2005

That lovin’ feeling: It only lasts a year. “The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers.
The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in [...]

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November 30, 2005

HIV-infected babies are often abandoned in Russia. “Most children of women with HIV aren’t born infected, but they cannot be reliably tested for the virus until they are 15 to 18 months old, and many mothers abandon them in the belief that they and the babies will soon be dead. Other mothers are drug users [...]

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November 29, 2005

American College of Radiology to Tom Cruise: “The ACR is concerned that Tom Cruise has been badly advised regarding the use and potential abuse of ultrasound. There are many abnormalities that may be missed by the untrained eye. Also, if it is not medically necessary, the use of ultrasound raises unnecessary physical risk to the [...]

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November 29, 2005

The third Vioxx trial: “It didn’t matter what the dose was. It doesn’t matter how long you took it.”
News to me. (via PointofLaw.com)

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November 29, 2005

Why is it that doctors will never tell you up front that something is going to hurt? Michelle reveals what doctors really mean.

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November 29, 2005

$36.5 million. Still wonder why C-section rates are so high? “The jurors found Doelger failed to interpret strips from a monitoring device that indicated the fetus was in distress, court records show. The difficult delivery continued so long, the fetus suffered from a dangerous increase in blood acidity; the child should have been delivered [...]

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November 29, 2005

You’re fired: A Long Island hospital is going to replace most of its ER staff. “The hospital’s 20 full-time emergency room doctors specialize in non-emergency fields, including internal medicine, surgery, gynecology or pediatrics. Only two doctors have the training and certification in emergency medicine that would now allow them to stay.
Asked whether the doctors would [...]

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November 29, 2005

A physician who treated bin Ladin says he would treat anyone. “Aziz bristled when asked whether he knew the al-Qaida leader’s whereabouts.
‘I have no idea, and I couldn’t care less,’ he said. ‘If you treat somebody just once, you don’t become his doctor. The majority of the people in the world hate George Bush, and [...]

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November 29, 2005

Increasing Medicaid reimbursement is a positive step in improving access.

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November 29, 2005

Miss HIV: Russia is considering holding a beauty contest for HIV+ women.

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November 29, 2005

When is the best time to persuade smokers to quit? Right after a cancer diagnosis:
Studies show that using the moment of diagnosis to initiate smoking cessation programs can help up to 70% of patients quit, she and her colleagues wrote, compared with the 20% success rate that is usual in the general population, the researchers [...]

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November 29, 2005

Some with spinal cord injuries are travelling to China for experimental surgery. “Paralyzed in May 2003 while performing a backward flip in a cheerleading stunt, Laura, 16, underwent experimental surgery in China late last year and pursues therapies she and her parents, Daryl and Melody, find promising.
Her story illustrates how some people with spinal cord [...]

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November 29, 2005

Some are questioning the findings of this radiologist, who solely reads x-rays for asbestos lawsuits:
According to the transcript of a deposition in 2004 , Dr. Harron graduated from New York Medical College in 1957, completed an internship at the United States Marine Hospital in New York in 1958, was a radiology resident in New Orleans [...]

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