Word: physician
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...TAKE YOUR TIME TO FIND THE RIGHT PHYSICIAN. Do you feel comfortable with the doctor's explanations? Or are you getting pressured by a sales pitch? Insist on an ophthalmologist who will meet with you before the operation--and not just 15 minutes before--to examine your eyes as well as take your medical history and answer your questions. Be sure to tell the doctor if you or anyone in your family has ever had a corneal disorder, diabetes or an autoimmune disease. Such conditions may increase the chances that laser surgery will severely damage your eyesight. If you have...
Since there are no guidelines for LASIK, it's up to each physician to decide who is the best candidate. Many refuse to operate on patients with normal-size pupils whose correction is greater than -12 for nearsightedness and +4 for farsightedness. Others will go as high...
Recently hired after-hours urgent care physician Donald Perlo talked about a new problem: patient privacy. He said UHS' current setup means students talking to receptionists or nurses about their health problems often have to do so while standing in the middle of a waiting room...
...took years for Oregonians to settle the prickly question of whether doctors should be able to help people kill themselves. But a majority of the state's voters made clear--twice--that they favor physician-assisted suicides, at least in the limited cases of terminally ill people expected to live less than six months...
...report that looked at two cities, Boston and Boise, Idaho, shows that the pesky six-legged parasites are increasingly resistant to permethrin, the active ingredient in Nix, a popular over-the-counter remedy. What to do? Doctors suggest that you try commercial preparations; if these fail, ask your physician for a prescription pesticide. Or forget pesticides altogether, and try products with "delipidizing agents," which are found in health-food stores...