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...care, often you can find yourself going beyond normal boundaries and going above and beyond what you would do for other patients." She adds, "It's very easy to slip over the line of giving good, objective care and maybe overtreating at times. You may feel pressure, like this physician apparently felt pressure by Michael Jackson to give him propofol and all these other things. It's very hard to say no to these people unless you keep a very strict sense of boundaries in their head...
...other choice" attitude with Greece that they had last year when confronted with the need to bail out their banks to prevent a financial collapse. "I'm against [a Greek bailout], especially since the Greek government cheated in the first place and hushed up the real numbers," says Berlin physician Peter Seidel, 52. (Read "Why Greece's Economic Debt Crisis Threatens the Euro...
Sharing data - as well as giving people full access to their digitized health records - is being championed by deBronkart, now an online activist known as "e-patient Dave." He has teamed up with Dr. Daniel Sands, the physician who helped him kick his cancer into remission in 2007, to co-chair the newly created Society for Participatory Medicine, which encourages patients to learn as much as they can about their health and also helps doctors support patients on this data-intensive quest. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...says, "We want limited government, fiscal responsibility, free-market principles and transparency. We are tired of government taking over our freedom." Marques, who attended the huge September 2009 Tea Party rally in Washington, believes that Obama's oratory and agenda will push the nation closer to socialism. A physician's assistant, she says, "We can use the market to bring health care costs down. Get government out of the way, then we can choose." The button on her black sweatshirt makes a similar point. It reads, "Tea Party Patriot," with an image of patriots throwing tea off the S.S. Obama...
...suit—Rebecca L. Dyson, who had examined chest X-rays taken in Feb. 2001 at Harvard-affiliate Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School professor Robert J. Mayer, an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who had been Gould’s physician since 1993; and Salvatore G. Viscomi, who was exonerated earlier...