Doctors

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What Do Dreams Say About Your Physical Health?

Anne Hill | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Intuition, Doctors, Dreams, Personal Health, Health, Dream Groups, Heart Health, The Inner Life, Wellness, Living News

While dream of physical health issues are quite common, doctors have been slow to catch on to the diagnostic potential of dream reports.

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Why Docs Like the Public Option

D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Doctors, Physicians, Public Option, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Care, Health, Politics News

A poll found that physicians overwhelmingly support a public option approach to health reform. That is, they want to see a mixed public-private approach.

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America's Irrational Health Care Status Quo

Diane Francis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Small Business, President Obama, Veterans Administration, Medicare, Doctors, Medicaid, Business, Seniors Health Care, Health Care, Veterans, Politics News

As an American living in Canada, it's really embarrassing that a country as smart and rich as the United States cannot get out from under the world's worst medical system.

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Sleep-Deprived Docs Told To Drink 6 Cups Coffee

msn.com | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Insomnia, Doctors, Sleep Deprived, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorders, Exhaustion, Sleep, Living News

Exhausted Australian doctors have been told to drink up to six cups of coffee a day to stay awake during extended shifts, building pressure on Prime M...

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The Witness to Guantanamo Project: In-Depth Filmed Interviews of Former Guantanamo Detainees

Peter Jan Honigsberg | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo, Witness, Doctors, Uyghurs, Human Rights, Cia, Interview, Rule of Law, Guantanamo Detainees, World News

We hope to film hundreds of interviews of former Guantanamo detainees. We are determined to document the systematic human rights abuses and rule of law violations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Why Care About Public Plan?

Jim Jaffe | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hospitals, Health Care Reform, Public Health Insurance Plan, Obama Administration, Doctors, Health Insurance, Medicare, Politics News

The insurance market is highly concentrated. It will take a while for any new entrant -- including a public plan -- to become a major player able to squeeze major price concessions.

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Big Sky Dilemma: Must Doctors Help Their Patients Die?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Montana, Politics, Leukemia, Conscience Clause, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Assisted Suicide, Health, Constitituton, Doctors, Bioethics, Medicine, Healthcare, Politics News

Mandating that physicians aid in dying should be a last resort. Montana should explore other, less-invasive means of ensuring that all citizens are guaranteed their constitutional right to die.

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Some Anti-Reform Doctors Using Scare Tactics On Patients

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Industry, Doctors, Health Care, Politics News

Kelley McCahill took her 70-year-old mother to see a plastic surgeon about having a cancerous growth removed from her nose last Thursday. "If not the...

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My Doctor Says: Get a Boob Job

Roni Zeiger | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Physicians, Advertising, Women's Health, Plastic Surgery, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Evidence Based Decision Making, Medical Costs, Patients, Medicine, Health Care, Evidence-Based Medicine, Living News

A pamphlet I received from our family doctor offering plastic surgery made my jaw drop. And it begs the question of whether the primary goal of our provider is my health or their profit.

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It's Not Over Until You've Tried These Six Things, Mr. President

Rob Warmowski | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Notice that the insurance industry-funded opposition to reform is well-managed enough to not send shouters and swastika sign-wavers to the town halls you are scheduled to appear at.

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How Not to Do Healthcare Reform

Jesse Larner | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anthony Weiner, Insurance, George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Jay Nordlinger, Doctors, Reform, Europe, Single Payer, Canada, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Politics News

In making the rich and employers pay for his pathetic "public option" in an essentially private system, Obama completely fails to understand that health care risks, costs, and benefits should be socialized.

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New York Times: Drug Prescription Information A "Commodity Bought And Sold In A Murky Marketplace"

nytimes.com | MILT FREUDENHEIM | Posted 09.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care Reform Health Care Bill, Drug Prescriptions, Prescription Drugs, Doctors, Medicine, Health Care, Prescriptions, Business News

MORE than 10 years after she tried without success to have a baby, Marcy Campbell Krinsk is still receiving painful reminders in her mail. The ads and...

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Rationing Care by Driving Doctors Out of Practice

Francine Hardaway | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Insurance Industry, Obama Healthcare, Public Health Insurance Plan, Healthcare System, Health Care Rationing, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare, Home News

Rationing will happen with or without reform. At least with reform you may be rationed by an objective committee, rather than by having the last doctor in your town go out of business.

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Shoes: How to Choose What to Use

Dr. Steve Rosenberg | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Feet, Doctors, Foot, Medicine, Podiatry, Living News

Doing the research and finding the best shoe for your foot will prevent potential foot injuries from occurring during exercise and keep your feet happy and out of the doctors' offices!

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MD's for Sale

Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson Diprivan, Doctors, Physicians, Michael Jackson Death, Celebrity, Percocet, Michael Jackson Doctor, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Xanax, Celebrities, Living News

Once your celebrity clients have put you on the map as a 'doctor to the stars' the boundaries may become blurred.

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Why Doctors & Nurses Need Twitter

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Barbara Ficarra, Doctors, Social Media, Twitter, Nurses, healthin30, Health Care, Medicine, Living News

I use Twitter and I like it. As a registered nurse, twitter helps me promote health and wellness and it helps me educate the public on vital health topics.

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Firefighting in the 1800's: A Corrupt, Bloated, Private For-Profit Industry

Tina Dupuy | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Firefighters, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Capitalism, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Socialism, Free Market, Health Care, Jim Demint, Hcr, Politics News

Less government is not always good. The private sector is not always first-rate. And free market capitalism does not cure all.

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Part 2: Un-Spinning Healthcare Reform

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: De-Regulation, Class Warfare, Unemployment, Health Care Rationing, House Democratic Leadership, George W. Bush, Universal Healthcare, President Obama, Health Insurance, Blue-Dog-Coalition, Congress, Single Payer Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Recession, Blue Dog Democrats, Universal Health Care, Doctors, Politics News

The problem isn't a few highly specialized physicians as much as it is the gaping maw between the few zip codes where they practice and the rest of the country. This is the real class warfare.

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The Wrong Debate

Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Doctors, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Primary Care, Medical Malpractice, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare, Politics News

Suppose, instead of our being primarily concerned with paying for our overpriced, under-performing health care system, we focus on why our system is the way it is.

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One Doctor Goes To Great Lengths For Universal Health Insurance

Sarah Lovinger | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, Doctors, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Uninsured, Universal Health Insurance, Health, Living News

Some people will do anything to advance the cause of universal health care in the United States. One dedicated doctor with blisters and sore muscles ...

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We Regulate Money, Drugs, Commerce, but not Health. Why?

Brian Ross | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Doctors, President Obama, Insurance, Government Regulation, Politics, Blue Cross, Obama Administration, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Business, Barack Obama, Living, Physicians, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Politics News

Why can't we use the power of the government to really regulate the insurance companies?

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'Outlaw Mother's Milk' Says Drug Czar

Don Parker | Posted 08.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mother's Milk, Nurses, Marijuana, American Academy of HIV Medicine, American Public Health Association, Institute of Medicine, Medical Marijuana, Science, Teen Alcohol Abuse, Political Humor, War on Science, Gil Kerlikowske, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Teenagers, Teen Tobacco Abuse, Drunk Driving, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, American Nurses Association, Seattle Police Chief, Fresno Bee, Drug Czar, Drug War, Doctors, Political Satire, Drug Policy, Tobacco, Republican War on Science, Legalize Marijuana, Lymphoma Foundation of America, Comedy News

After declaring on Wednesday in Fresno that "marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit," Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office...

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The FAQ's of X-Ray

Helene Pavlov | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Your Money, Living, Doctors, Health, X-Ray, Living News

You hear the expression "you need an X-ray" at the Doctor's office. This primer provides a better understanding of what that expression exactly means.

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Who Needs Health Reform?

Jacob Dickerman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Doctors, Oxford Health, Health Coverage, Health Care, Health, Comedy News

That's the joy of horrible health insurance: When I'm thinking about how I could have died this year, my insurance lets me ignore it and instead think about the financial shit-storm that I've landed in.

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How To Stimulate Your Placebo Response

Dr. Frank Lipman | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Health, Antibiotics, Modern Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Natural Medicine, Doctors, Patients, Placebo, Functional Medicine, Placebo Effect, Alternative Medicine, Living News

After finishing my Internship at Baragwaneth Hospital in South Africa almost 30 years ago, I went to apprentice in a busy General Practice in Johannes...

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