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By Bruce Horovitz, Kaiser Health News Just weeks before Christmas some years ago, Shirley Rapp and her family faced the devastating news that she had what ...
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Aid-in-Dying Laws Don’t Guarantee That Patients Can Choose To Die
By JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News In the seven months since California’s aid-in-dying law took effect, Dr. Lonny Shavelson has helped nearly two dozen terminally ill ...
Read More »Doctors hail reintroduction of Medicare-for-all bill
A national physicians group today hailed the reintroduction of a federal bill that would upgrade the Medicare program and swiftly expand it to cover the ...
Read More »Introducing Certainty and Reducing Potential Exposure in Telehealth Delivery
By Nadia de la Houssaye Telehealth is one of the most exciting health care developments in decades. It has gained a firm foothold across the ...
Read More »Doctors And Hospitals Say ‘Show Me The Money’ Before Treating Patients
By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News Tai Boxley needs a hysterectomy. The 34-year-old single mother has uterine prolapse, a condition that occurs when the muscles ...
Read More »Even With Nearby Retail Clinics, Patients More Likely To Go To E.R.
By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News Even if there’s a retail health clinic less than a 10-minute drive away, consumers are just as likely to go ...
Read More »Real Emergency Physicians Take Aim at Cigna’s TV Doctors Ad
The American College of Emergency Physicians today responded to Cigna Insurance Company’s multi-million dollar ad campaign starring famous “TV doctors” with a video of its own, ...
Read More »Medical Device Reps Are Often In The O.R., Raising Concerns About Influence
By Sandra G. Boodman, Kaiser Health News They are a little-known presence in many operating rooms, offering technical expertise to surgeons installing new knees, implanting cardiac ...
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