Word: patient
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...procedure precisely because it did not include a clause for health-endangering situations. He was right to do so. It is a dangerous and delicate thing when the government starts making laws about what procedures doctors can and cannot perform in order to protect a patient's life or health, and this ban clearly was such legislation at its worst. By failing to protect the mother's health the ban effectively placed the fetus in a position of higher importance than the mother, a clear violation of women's Constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade...
...straight to the pharmacist's computer. Given the rapid increase in drugs with similar names, it's a technology that could save medical careers, not to mention lives. Last week in West Texas, a court ordered cardiologist RAMACHANDRA KOLLURU to pay $225,000 to the family of a heart patient who died after receiving the wrong medication. He got Plendil instead of Isordil, because the pharmacist couldn't read what Kolluru had ordered...
...Allscripts. In fact, around 150 million calls are made every year to doctors' offices from puzzled pharmacists--calls that Tullman's software aims to eliminate. And because 90% of the country's managed-care providers are already on board, the device also tells doctors which drugs a patient's insurance will cover. The only thing stopping your M.D. from signing up for the device, launched this month, is a legible signature...
PROSTATE PROMISE The study is tiny--only 11 men participated--but the results are tantalizing. Using an experimental genetically engineered vaccine, doctors have been able to trick the body into attacking prostate cancer. The vaccine consists of a patient's own cancer cells culled from the surgically removed tumor. When injected, the body recognizes the cells in the vaccine--as well as any lingering cells from the tumor--as foreign invaders and launches an all-out immune-system attack. Promising, yes. But whether further tests pan out is yet to be seen...
...Senate approves a similar bill," says TIME Washington correspondent Sally Donnelly, "and Clinton signs it into law, doctors would be permitted to treat pain as aggressively as they saw fit, given their intent was not to end the patients' life. This way, doctors could medicate for pain without fear of retribution, even if a patient dies. But the tough issue becomes intent: What did the doctor intend the drugs to do?" So if a patient does die while medicated, a doctor would be subject to an investigation, which, the bill's opponents fear, could lead the Drug Enforcement Agency right...