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Speaking of asking questions, you say a lot of screenings may not be necessary. How can a patient figure out whether to get a particular test? Love: One thing you should always ask is, How is this going to change my treatment? A lot of tests are just done out of habit. You don't want to have any unnecessary tests, because there's always a downside. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...published a study in the British medical journal the Lancet making the audacious claim that the tools already exist to end the AIDS epidemic. Doctors have long noted that antiretrovirals - the drugs commonly used to treat HIV - are so successful at suppressing the number of viruses in an infected patient's blood that they can render a person no longer contagious. Using mathematical models, the researchers claimed that universal HIV testing followed by the immediate treatment of newly infected patients with antiretroviral drugs could eliminate the disease from even the most heavily infected populations within 10 years...
...Until the banks fix the problem, Germans will have no choice but to be patient. Or they could always pay for their goods the old-fashioned way - by cash...
Your focus is on checklists in surgery. Can checklists help a doctor working alone? I had a patient just the week before Christmas who had a tumor found in his abdomen. It was on multiple spinal X-rays he'd had, but they were just looking at the spine and they forgot to check the other images. It's a kind of basic mistake radiologists can make. But if you have a checklist, you make sure you've looked...
...talk about health care reform. Do you think the Democrats have gotten it basically right or wrong when it comes to slowing the growth of medical spending? The core point at which health care costs explode is the point at which the doctor and the patient sit down together to make a decision about what they should do for care. We have not concentrated enough, in our thinking about reform, on that moment. What we want is care that is much better organized. We are going to need approaches like checklists to get rid of wasted care and to make...