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Beyond Guantanamo: Torture Thrives in Connecticut

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Medical Ethics, Law, Rape, Arthur Caplan, Physicians, Crime, American Medical Associaton, Prisoners, Civil Rights, William Coleman, Guantanamo, Connecticut, Edward Blanchette, World Medical Association, Human Rights, Health, Doctors, Prisons, Medicine, Bioethics, Torture, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

In the case of Coleman v. Lantz, Connecticut has argued for the right to force feed a hunger-striking inmate in an excruciatingly painful manner.

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Health Care: Understanding Functional Medicine

Dr. M.J. Wegmann | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Emergency Care, Physicians, Medicine, Health Care, Chronic Disease, Health, Alternative Medicine, Living News
Dr. M.J. Wegmann

Wellness can be described as a state that combines health and happiness. Thus those factors that contribute to being healthy and happy also will be contributing to being well.

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When Militarism 'Invades' Medicine...Doctatorship Happens

Dana Ullman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Homeopathic, Military, Physicians, Military Industrial Complex, Weapons of Mass Destruction, War, Side Effects, Natural Medicine, Militarism, Collateral Damage, Medicine, Homeopathy, Health, Living News
Dana Ullman

Our medical thinking has become totally militaristic. It is not just happenstance that doctors proudly assert that they seek to attack illness, combat disease, kill infective agents, and create a war on cancer.

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Cairo to Fort Hood: Broader Engagement at Home and Abroad

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Science Envoy Program, Islam, Fort Hood, Physicians, Veterans Day, Anderson Cooper, In the Land of Invisible Women, Taliban, Waco, State Department, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Qaeda, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Zakat, Islamophobia, Unabomber, Jihad, Armistice Day, Saudi Arabia, Cnn, Insomnia, New York Times, Nidal Malik Hasan, Hillary Clinton, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, Ground Zero, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.

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Keeping Docs on the Sidelines

D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Politics, Doctors, Physicians, Health Care, Health, Politics News
D. Brad Wright

It takes much less effort to convince people that insurance companies need to be made more accountable than it does to convince people that their doctors need to make less money.

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Are More Primary Care Docs the Answer?

D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Physicians, Primary Care, Health Care, Health, Politics News
D. Brad Wright

Given the concern over the unsustainable growth of health care costs in the U.S., Michael Chernew and colleagues ask an interesting question: Would having more primary care doctors cut health spending growth?

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Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 10.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Physicians, Propofol, Melatonin, This-Is-It, Deepak Chopra, Brooke Sheilds, Jay Leno, Cnn, Jack Kevorkian, Insomnia, King of Pop, Sleep Machismo, Heath Ledger, David Letterman, Bill Maher, Sleep, Hippocratic Oath, Living News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

That an anesthesiologist could be on tour with Michael administering propofol is both baffling and repugnant. The King of Pop was effectively anaesthetized every night, while our profession was asleep at the wheel.

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Doctor's Visit: How To Talk To Your Physician

health.com | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Physicians, Health, Hospitals, Doctors, Patients, Health Care, Medicine, Living News

The way you talk to your doctor may be as important as anything you say. To make the most of an appointment, follow these expert-recommended steps....

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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
D. Brad Wright

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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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
Roni Zeiger

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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The Uninsured Are Not Just a Number

Rev. Bekeh Utietiang | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Obama, Physicians, Uninsured, Health Insurance, Insurance, Politics News
Rev. Bekeh Utietiang

What is at stake is not whether people have the right to affordable health care, but whether people have the right to life.

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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
Dr. Johnny Benjamin

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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Simple Math: Keeping People out of the ER = Saving Money

Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hospitals, Emergency Room, Healthcare, Physicians, Time Is Money, Health Care Reform, Health Care Specialists, Health Care, Politics News
Dr. Johnny Benjamin

I won't bore you with the moral reasons for supporting adequate health care coverage for all Americans. I will appeal to your more pragmatic side: it will save you a lot of money.

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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
Brian Ross

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

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Celebrity "Roadkill": A Black Box Warning for Physicians

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Medical Ethics, Michael Jackson, Dangerous Controlled Substance, Drug Addiction, Roadkill, Physicians, Celebrity Culture, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Doctor Shopping, Beverly Hills, Self-Esteem, Justice Department, Prescription Painkillers, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Just Say No, Fame, Opiates, Drug Enforcement Administration, Deepak Chopra, Drug Abuse, Heath Ledger, Narcotics, Pain Medications, Hippocratic Oath, Celebrities, Hollywood, Black Box Warning, Entertainment News
Gary Cohan

How can a vulnerable physician resist the temptation to "bend the rules" for these "tabloid elites?"

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Who Is the Most Important Stakeholder in Health Care?

Roni Zeiger | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Treatment, Quality of Care, Participatory Medicine, Health, Peter Orszag, Patients, Physicians, Barack Obama, Doctors, Evidence-Based Decision Making, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Evidence-Based Medicine, Personal Health, Living News
Roni Zeiger

Consumers need to be part of the health care conversation and doctors and patients alike need better access to basic data about what works and what doesn't.

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Obama Interviews the Medical Blogosphere on Healthcare Reform

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Depression, Physicians, Nursing, Medicine 2.0, Grand Rounds Blog Carnival, Blog Carnival, Training, Psychological Help, Mental Health, Antipsychotics, Obama, Innovation, Drugs, Patients, Kaiser Family Foundation, Stress, Medical Help, Non Pharmacological, Uninsured, Insurance, Health, Stress Free, Exercise, Grand Rounds, Meditation, Technology, Chronic Illness, Medicine, Healthcare, Learn, Politics News
Alvaro Fernandez

Without further ado, below you have this week's Grand Rounds -- a Q&A session with over 30 bloggers led by the incoming President on how to reform (for the better, we hope) healthcare.

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Healthcare Abducted

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Exercise, President, Drugs, Life Force, Drug Sales, Congress, Nutrition, Healthcare, Big Pharma, Diet, Government, Physicians, McCombs Plan, Drug Lobby, LifeForce Plan, Unemployment, Weight Loss, Pharmaceutical, Health, Insurance, Americans, R&D, Quality of Life, Living News
Dr. Jeffrey McCombs

Mainstream healthcare in America has been abducted by the pharmaceutical and insurance companies. As profits have moved to the center stage, patient c...

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