By Carrie Feibel Abortion is one of the more common procedures performed in the U.S., more common even than appendectomy. But as clinics in Texas close, finding a place ...
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Veterans are still waiting to see a doctor. Two years ago, vets were waiting a long time for care at Veterans Affairs clinics. At one facility in Phoenix, for ...
Read More »Investigating Your Disability Claim
By Mark F. Seltzer, Esq. In prior articles I have written for Physicians’ News Digest, I have brought to your attention your Disability Insurance Company’s ...
Read More »By Not Discussing Money, Doctors and Patients May Miss Chances To Lower Medical Expenses
Talking about money is never easy. But when doctors are reluctant to talk about medical costs, a patient’s health can be undermined. A study published in Health ...
Read More »Don’t Blame Doctors And Nurses…Patients Need To Wash Their Hands, Too
Encouraging doctors and nurses to wash their hands frequently has always been considered an easy and effective way to curb the spread of infection in ...
Read More »Supreme Court Vacancy Creates Confusion For Future Of Reproductive Rights
The death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has complicated the fate of many major cases before the Supreme Court this term. But few issues face ...
Read More »Doctor Urges Openness About Superbug Infections, But Omits His Own Hospital
As superbug outbreaks raised alarm across the country last year, a prominent doctor at a Philadelphia cancer center wrote in a leading medical journal about ...
Read More »Are States Obligated To Provide Expensive Hepatitis C Drugs?
A handful of federal lawsuits against states that have denied highly effective but costly hepatitis C drugs to Medicaid patients and prisoners could cost states ...
Read More »Zika Virus Can Leave Children With Lifetime of Health Problems
The thousands of babies born in Brazil with abnormally small heads and brains — believed to be caused by infection in the womb with the ...
Read More »‘Physician Empathy’ Via Email Helps To Keep In Touch With Patients
A health care startup made a wild pitch to Cara Waller, CEO of the Newport Orthopedic Institute in Newport Beach. The company said it could ...
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