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...That shortage has already arrived in Massachusetts. The MMS report revealed that 27 percent of medical directors had trouble recruiting family physicians, in comparison to only 7 percent who found it difficult to recruit specialists such as anesthesiologists, orthopedic surgeons, pediatricians, and radiologists. The lack of primary care physicians translates into longer waits to see a physician for patients: only 42 percent of patients in Massachusetts could be seen by a primary care physician within a week, a drop of 11 percent over the past two years. In one practice in Western Massachusetts, the next opening for a physical...
...Financial disincentives pose one obstacle to residents considering primary care. Insurance reimbursement is one reason students ignore primary care in favor of pursuing lucrative specialties: A Medicare reimbursement for a 30-minute visit with a primary care physician in Boston is only $103.42, while a colonoscopy requiring the same amount of time reimburses a gastroenterologist $449.44. Costs of running an economically viable primary care practice (especially outside of a hospital, which can recoup losses with expensive procedures or tests) in many parts of the country are also prohibitively expensive. And it is easier to recoup the financial losses of medical...
...aroused. A cardiovascular disease of any sort is a problem too, as well as some of the medications that treat it. Hormonal fluctuations, such as testosterone, also affects sex drive. So it would make perfect sense for any man experiencing a drop in desire to start by visiting his physician and having a thorough check-up. That's step number...
...Physician and leading member of the French National Consultative Committee on Ethics, Axel Kahn, acknowledges there are "several incoherent aspects" to Sébire's attitude towards treatment and demands for an administered death. Still, Kahn isn't sure full disclosure of her case would have changed opinion of her plight. "Public response to her condition and plea for euthanasia was compassionate and emotional," Kahn says. "Hard ethical analysis of whether her own peculiar decisions dealing with her disease undermined her request for death involves rational conclusion. Rarely in our world will the rational win out over the emotional...
...that sometimes alarmed his closest aides and friends. He fought valiantly to maintain sanity and focus in the midst of the surrounding turmoil. One of his top aides wanted him to consult a psychiatrist because of his steep descent into the doldrums. The sleeping pills he got from a physician friend stopped working. His vacations rarely allowed him to escape his troubles and pressures. And the somber tones of his voice evoked the nightmares that stalked...