When the insurance company denies a requested test or procedure, physicians would be well advised to avoid expressing their opinions about this denial in...
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Medical Ethics
Winning the Vaccine Wars
Statistically speaking, we are winning the vaccine wars . .
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DWT vs DWI
It’s like driving with your eyes closed for five seconds or more. This is the equivalent to driving while texting (reading or writing). It’s twice as likely to cause a crash as driving while intoxicated but as of 2010, only 19 states had laws that prohibited texting while driving for ALL drivers (not just...
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Dr. Arafiles’ Alternative Legal and Medical Treatments
His response to being reported to the Texas Medical Board is just as unique as some of his medical treatments.
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Vaccine Studies and Conspiracy Thinking
The anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists cling tenaciously to a few studies of questionable quality and accuracy and serious credibility issues.
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Is the Vegetative Patient Aware?
Relatively new imaging techniques have found evidence of conscious awareness in a minority of traumatic injury patients diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state.
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Abstinence-only Education Works After Religion is Taken Out
Abstinence-only sex education has never been shown to work well. What if they just threw out all of that "no sex until marriage" stuff and instead, focused on the hazards of teenage sexual activity?
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Physicians and Substance Abuse
There are a ton of misconceptions and outright falsehoods regarding doctors and substance abuse problems. This is not helped by media reports that make it seem as if physicians are abusing every substance "under the sun". There is not an army of crazy, addicted, physician zombies out there ready to eat your brains.
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Who Says Dishonesty Doesn’t Pay?
Dr. Wakefield will likely lose his UK medical license for "dishonest, irresponsible and callous disregard for the distress and pain of children" in attempting to prove a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Good thing he currently works in Texas!
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