In the near future, you may be able to be immunized against nicotine.
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"When the preparations were complete Rogozov scrubbed and positioned himself. He chose a semi-reclining position, with his right hip slightly elevated and the lower half of the body elevated at an angle of 30°. Then he disinfected and dressed the operating area. He anticipated needing to use his sense of touch to guide...
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What the hell is going on in Massachusetts?
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There are too many absurd things about the Federal income tax system to mention in one place but getting taxed on income that was derived mostly from my taxes is one of the best.
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Like John Gotti’s lawyer denying the existence of organized crime in America, trial lawyers have been denying for years that defensive medicine exists or if it does then it’s not so prevalent as to have any significant economic impact. Strictly defined, defensive medicine is the practice of ordering or performing tests and/or procedures or...
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Still waiting for your Obama check to arrive in the mail? Keep waiting.
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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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