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6 arrested in alleged kickback scheme at Sacred Heart Hospital
Tribune reporterAn elderly man was admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital on Chicago's West Side in late February, intubated and sedated for more than a week and scheduled for an emergency tracheotomy even though it was medically unnecessary, federal prosecutors allege....Tags: Internists, Medical Specialization, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Prosecution
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Police clear 'suspicious' letter that sickens medical office employees
Several people reported falling ill Friday morning after a letter emitting a strong odor was delivered to a South Whitehall Township medical facility. Police later determined the letter and its smell were harmless. Police said they responded to a 9:30...
Tags: Internists, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Whitehall, Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics
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Letters: Doctors and nurses -- who will take care of us?
Re "Can't a nurse do that?," Editorial, April 21 To combat the impending physician shortage all across California, and the crisis already facing rural areas, state law absolutely must change to allow greater independence for non-physician medical...Tags: Internists, Medical Specialization, Nursing, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, General Practitioners
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Henry Gift: Doctor Was Champion Of Underserved, In Connecticut And Around The World
The Hartford CourantAfter Henry Gift's mother died in Guyana from lack of access to medical treatment, he pledged to become a physician and bring healing to people with no access to doctors. Gift fulfilled that childhood pledge — he became an internist who provided...Tags: Internists, Medical Specialization, Clinton (Middlesex, Connecticut), Dentistry and Dental Health, Georgetown
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Red meat risks: One more reason to go vegetarian
The new link between meat consumption and heart disease, discovered by Dr. Stanley Hazen of the Cleveland Clinic, is just the latest evidence linking meat consumption to killer diseases that cripple, then kill, 1.3 million Americans annually. Dr. Hazen'...
Tags: Internists, Canterbury, Heart Disease, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Vegetarian Diet
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Heart bypass surgery or stents? Depends on patient
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The average person with multiple diseased arteries in the heart does slightly better following coronary artery bypass surgery than after having stents inserted, a new study suggests, but the optimal procedure varies by patient....Tags: Internists, Diabetes, Medical Specialization, Medical Research, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Not enough data to support suicide screening: panel
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There is not enough evidence to recommend universal screening to find people at risk of suicide, according to a government-backed panel. As it did in 2004, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued draft...Tags: Internists, Western Kentucky University, Behavioral Conditions, Medical Specialization, Suicide
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El ejercicio y la dieta evitan que se agrave la apnea del sueño
ReutersPor Genevra Pittman NUEVA YORK (Reuters Health) - La pérdida de peso con ejercicios y una dieta más sanapuede tener beneficios de largo plazo para la gente con una apnea del sueño moderada, reveló un estudio. Los investigadores advirtieron que los...Tags: Internists, Medical Specialization, Sleep Apnea, Health and Medical Professionals
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Thievery in the medical industry
Pushed off the front pages last week by the Boston Marathon bombing was a Chicago horror story with implications as far-reaching as any terrorist plot. FBI agents raided a small hospital on Chicago's West Side where, according to federal investigators,...
Tags: Internists, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Medical Procedures and Tests, Government Health Care
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For Muslims, bad memories and new worries
There are few Muslims in the small northeast Ohio town where Karen lives with her Palestinian American husband and their five children. In a region where Amish and Mennonite women cover themselves, Karen and her 20-year-old daughter, Amanda, find the...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Internists, George W. Bush, Philosophy, Crime, Law and Justice
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Doctors don't often tell patients of CT scan risks
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Only about a third of patients surveyed at one U.S. medical center said their doctors told them about the possible risks of a CT scan, such as radiation exposure, a new study finds. Researchers, who published their findings in...Tags: Internists, Medical Specialization, General Practitioners, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Drugs and Medicines
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Some patients won't see nurses of different race
DETROIT (AP) — It's been called one of medicine's "open secrets" — allowing patients to refuse treatment by a doctor or nurse of another race. In the latest example, a white man with a swastika tattoo insisted that black nurses not be...
Tags: Internists, Justice System, Litigation, Discrimination, Racism
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