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By Michael Ollove, Stateline In nearly two years as a medical resident in Meridian, Mississippi, Dr. John Thames has treated car-wreck victims, people with chest pains ...
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By Alan Lyndon There’s a stigma attached to medical marijuana, particularly if a parent is giving it to their child. But this type of marijuana ...
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Doctors are experience burnout at higher rates than ever before and, unfortunately, resolving their conflicts with suicide. “Four hundred U.S. physicians take their own lives ...
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By Julie Rovner As House Republicans try to find common cause on a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, they may be ...
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Many people drink diet soda to avoid the excessive calories found in the regular stuff. Turns out, both regular and diet soda may be linked ...
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By Alan Lyndon Teens don’t get enough sleep. That’s not new information. The question is: what can parents do about it? Last year, a study ...
Read More »Two Words Can Soothe Injured Patients And Avoid Malpractice Suits: I’m Sorry
By Sandra G. Boodman When Donna Helen Crisp, a 59-year-old nursing professor, entered a North Carolina teaching hospital for a routine hysterectomy in 2007, she expected ...
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