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...these cases, the girls may have been more vulnerable to developing clots because they smoked or were overweight or on birth control pills. "Was it that this age group also tends to have these risk factors or did the vaccine have some sort of role?" asks the CDC's Dr. Barbara Slade, lead author of the paper. "We really don't know." (See more about...
Like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes in scrubs, the title character of House can solve just about any medical mystery. That's not altogether unrealistic, says Dr. Lisa Sanders, the show's technical adviser. Sanders, an internist and the author of Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, talked to TIME about House's flesh-and-blood counterparts, how we can teach more doctors to be like them and how patients can help. (Read a TIME special report on health care...
...provision, arguing that it will encourage patients to express their own preferences rather than leave doctors and family members to guess what they want once they're no longer able to say so themselves. There are only about 7,500 geriatricians in the U.S., and one of them is Dr. Laurie Jacobs, vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. Jacobs, who has been a practicing geriatrician since 1988, talked to TIME about why end-of-life counseling is important, when it should start...
...hospital why two had been ordered, I was told, "That's the doctor's decision." But his call amounted to what was probably a redundant 30% of a $12,000 bill. "Physicians and radiologists and the like, they all make up their own protocols for the scans," says Dr. Alan Whiteman, associate dean of health services at Barry University in Miami. "A lot of that needs to change...
...emergency-level attention. (My kidney stone hit me at night, when my local urgent-care clinic was closed, leaving me with little choice but an E.R.) PCMH "is something we need to encourage because it redirects health care in ways that can save us a lot of money," says Dr. John Rock, dean of the Florida International University College of Medicine in Miami...