The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is going to enable millions of additional patients to enter into community health care systems that are already poorly designed, underfunded, and overcrowded.
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Given the political difficulty in fixing the perpetual 21% Medicare pay cut, maybe a few million angry voters will help things.
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Repeated testing of physicians seems like a good idea. To bad that there is no proof that this makes any difference in the delivery or quality of patient care.
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Many stand on their soap boxes and proclaim that politics and patient care should not mix. But mix they do and the simple act of patient care does not strip the physician of their first amendment rights.
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Most incredible action figure ever created, discovered.
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Sudden psychiatric symptoms following a brief febrile illness and headache in a young woman without any prior psychiatric disorder history.
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Everything you always wanted to know about fatty acids, fish oil, and heart disease risk, but were afraid to ask.
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2% of 1,000 Twitter messages regarding antibiotic use contained incorrect information.
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With all the talk about preventive care and coordination of care during the current health reform efforts, you would think that this would have been one of the primary measures in the recent legislation. You'd be wrong.
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Eating fat does not make you fat. It's far more complicated than that. Fortunately, the solution is very simple.
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