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Excessive malpractice awards also make practicing medicine more expensive, thereby limiting its availability. The cost of malpractice insurance premiums has become unbearable for many doctors, especially in high-risk professions. For example, Time Magazine reported last summer that from 2001 to 2002, obstetricians-gynecologists saw an average 19.6 percent increase in premiums, and emergency room trauma specialists saw a 56.2 percent increase from 2002 to 2003. These increasingly higher costs can force doctors to take extreme measures, such as refusing to perform specific procedures—last summer, half of the ob-gyns in Tacoma, Wash. refused to deliver babies?...
...regular schedule of veterinary visits and vaccinations. Wash your hands after handling pets, and get immediate treatment for any parasites that show up. Don't let your pet scavenge, hunt or eat raw meat. Avoid contact with your pet's body fluids. And clean litter boxes daily. High-risk groups?small children, the elderly, pregnant women and the immuno-compromised?require special precautions. Ask your doctor, and your veterinarian...
...rest is prescribed for more than 700,000 pregnant women each year to treat complications and delay premature delivery. Although some situations may demand it, the doctor's orders are often more harmful than helpful, according to a study of women with high-risk pregnancies reported in Biological Research for Nursing. Bed rest's downside for both mom and baby is that it contributes to weight loss in the mother in the later stages of pregnancy, just when weight gain is so important. That can translate into a lower birth weight for the baby. Moms who took...
...After narrowly winning the election last March, Jäätteenmäki was forced to resign three months later. On Thin Ice NORTH POLE Russia plucked to safety 12 of its scientists stranded on a disintegrating ice floe 700 km from Norway's Spitzbergen island in a high-risk helicopter rescue mission. Most of the structures of the North Pole-32 research station sank when the ice pack on which it was built started to break up. The scientists, none of whom were hurt in the incident, had been left with just two buildings for shelter and five days...
...regular schedule of veterinary visits and vaccinations. Wash your hands after handling pets, and get immediate treatment for any parasites that show up. Don't let your pet scavenge, hunt or eat raw meat. Avoid contact with your pet's body fluids. And clean litter boxes daily. High-risk groups - small children, the elderly, pregnant women and the immuno-compromised - require special precautions. Ask your doctor, and your veterinarian...