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There's a mantra in AIDS treatment that every physician in the field knows by heart: When it comes to HIV, hit early and hit hard...
...Some of that success can be attributed to improvements in freezing techniques, says Dr. Hannu Martikainen, the study's lead author and the chief physician at the University of Oulu Division of Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology. "Now we have more and more experience, and we are doing more and more frozen cycles," he says. He points out the importance of not only transferring but also preserving each embryo on its own, which makes it possible to use frozen embryos one at a time rather than in bigger batches. "[If you transfer] three embryos in each cycle, you very soon...
...more information can also lead to less medicine. EMR can greatly increase insurance-company denials of the treatments doctors want. Might this eliminate unnecessary testing? Sure. But who determines what is necessary? When a white-blood-cell count isn't high enough to "justify" hospitalization for IV antibiotics, the physician whose judgment says "this patient is sick and belongs in the hospital" is told his services, as well as the hospitalization, will not be paid for. So he has two choices: wait for the patient to get sick enough to justify his treatment plan or join the game...
...government allowed doctors to be paid a bonus of 2% of their Medicare reimbursement, or up to $5,000 a year, beginning in 2009 if they wrote electronic prescriptions. These incentives will start to phase out in 2011, however, and in 2012, the system will introduce de-incentives: any physician not using e-prescriptions will be penalized by 1% of his Medicare reimbursement...
...Harvard UHS Physician Assistants: Malpractice or your money back. Co-sponsored by Room 13 and the Kevorkian Institute for the Advancement of Terminal Illness...