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...house call is making a comeback. Not a decade ago, doctor visits to the home were declared a "vanishing practice" in the New England Journal of Medicine. Now experts predict that as time-strapped baby boomers age--and their parents survive to be superelderly--the demand for doctors who are as comfortable examining patients in the bedroom as in the office will soar. Medicare data show a 37% surge to more than 2 million home visits by physicians from 1995 to 2005. That is partly because Medicare changed the rules for reimbursement in 1998, making house calls an attractive model...
...house-call physicians have the capability of providing care comparable to an urgent-care center in the home," says Dr. George Taler, co-director of the Washington Hospital Center Medical House Call Program in Washington. "Even intravenous therapies, medications and oxygen are readily available at the time of the visit if the physician wishes to offer advanced care for those patients who would prefer to avoid the emergency room or, for that matter, the hospital. It may seem counterintuitive, but many physicians who make house calls an important part of their practice are far more technologically equipped than most...
...fate. The argument for military action, by contrast, rests on just two tarnished words. Last week a small crowd gathered in Kigali, Rwanda. "If you don't protect the people of Darfur today," said a man named Freddy Umutanguha, "never again will we believe you when you visit Rwanda's mass graves, look us in the eye and say 'Never again.'" Try offering a geopolitical answer to that...
CHAVEZ: They need to visit Venezuela. If you think Chávez is intimidating free expression, just watch television there--my God, devil is the least of things the opposition is allowed to call...