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...treating pregnant women, frequently altering prescriptions or deferring them altogether until after delivery. In the first month or two, however, some women are unaware that they have conceived. That ignorance can be costly, both to the fetus, which may be damaged by drugs or X rays, and to the physician or hospital, which may later be sued for malpractice. To avoid such problems, some doctors now recommend that all women of child-bearing age be tested routinely for pregnancy in a doctor's office or when admitted to a hospital. The experience of two hospitals that have done this...
London has worked as a research scientist in hematology and a practicing physician, as well as teaching at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he is a visiting professor. He is also currently a physician at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston...
Even before he died last year in an automobile accident at the age of 49, the peasant known as Arigó had become a legend in his native Brazil. Claiming to be guided by the wise voice of a long-deceased physician whom he had never known personally, the uneducated healer saw as many as 300 patients a day, diagnosing and treating them in minutes. For some he suggested minor surgery, frequently performing the operations himself with a pocketknife. For others he recommended drugs, writing prescriptions for unorthodox pharmacological combinations that somehow worked. He treated almost every known ailment...
...Executive Health Examiners believe that an examination is only as good as the doctor who performs it, and that multiphasic testing (which is a part of every examination we perform at Executive Health Examiners) is only an aid to a highly competent physician in his effort to make a correct diagnosis. Examinations at Executive Health Examiners do not cost "$200 or more" but may be had for as little as $90. Further, the average time for an examination is two to three hours, not "several days...
...contraceptives with similar ingredients. All told, 15 companies, including most of the country's major drug manufacturers have publicly admitted errors in advertising 23 out of the thousands of drugs on sale. On 33 other occasions, the pharmaceutical houses have sent out "Dear Doctor" letters to every practicing physician in the country, informing them of misstatements in advertising or other promotional material. Such candor is now compulsory. Under a 1964 law, the FDA adopted various regulations to ensure the accuracy and truthfulness of prescription-drug advertising...