BONIFAY, Fla. — Sandra Duck thinks she’s the victim of an undeclared Medicaid boycott. And she’s probably right. When her artificial right hip became infected with the superbug MRSA in late 2009, Dr. Dale Mitchum, a general surgeon, drained …
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“Systematic review of safety checklists for use by medical care teams in acute hospital settings–limited evidence of effectiveness,” BMC Health Serv Res. September 2, 2011; 11: 211.) Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin is a daily e-letter providing …
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Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation and publisher of various natural health newsletters, books, and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is reporting on the new State of the World’s …
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ST. LOUIS — Terry Collins said doctors found no structural damage with Frank Francisco during an examination in New York. Francisco, who complained of elbow discomfort, will return to Port St. Lucie, Fla., and rest for a few days before …
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An outraged Janet Agranoff watched in 1996 as “60 Minutes” aired a report about “dying rooms … Amid the daily comings and goings, a shaggy rescue dog named Fifi romps through the kitchen, and a retired greyhound runs laps in the backyard.
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At Broward Health System’s hospitals, Dr. Jean-Jacques Rajter uses his iPad on rounds, his laptop in his hospital office and his iPhone “in a pinch.” “Information is accessible just about anywhere I happen to be,” said Rajter, who specializes in …
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On Dec. 19, 2011, Lori Brownell, who was 17 at the time, shot a YouTube video of herself as she talked about the tics she’d developed weeks earlier. She twitched her body, fluttered her fingers and made noises in her throat as she described her …
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GPs are being paid £1,350 a shift to work for Britain’s biggest out-of-hours care provider. Documents seen by the Mail reveal Harmoni has been offering doctors £150 an hour for a nine-hour shift because managers are so desperate to cover evenings and …
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So you can have different levels of the mechanical properties.” He and his colleagues also modeled a dislocated spine by printing hard plastic vertebrae with softer, jellylike disks in between, so that it moved realistically, enabling doctors to better …
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Dr. Alfred J. Tria is the chief of orthopedic surgery at St. Peter’s University Hospital, a 478-bed facility in New Brunswick, N.J., and to the medical technology company Smith & Nephew, his good word is worth a million bucks. Well …
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