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...internist and the author of Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, talked to TIME about House's flesh-and-blood counterparts, how we can teach more doctors to be like them and how patients can help. (Read a TIME special report on health care...
...community of doctors, they will be able to list three or four doctors who seem to know everything. We all know who they are. Different doctors will name different people, but you'll come up with a very short list. (Read an interview with President Obama on health care...
...literature today?" These are people who are constantly learning and adding to an already sizable knowledge base. And they have seen a lot. That's very important, because a disease on the page is so different from the disease in a person. (See the top 10 players in health-care reform...
...health-care-reform bill the U.S. House of Representatives will debate when it returns from recess next month contains a provision that would have Medicare reimburse doctors for counseling patients on end-of-life care every five years. Opponents of health-care reform have latched onto the provision, claiming it would lead to forced euthanasia or "death panels" to decide whether lifesaving care for the elderly is cost-effective - despite the fact that the bill says nothing about either of these frightening issues. In fact, geriatricians - doctors trained specifically to care for the elderly - support the provision, arguing that...
...Does this House provision for funding end-of-life counseling concern you? This provision says that people should talk about what their goals of care are and what they want at the end of life. That could be anything. This is an opportunity for patients and physicians to share information with each other and come up with a plan. It is one of the special things about being a physician. You get to know your patient and what matters to them, and their inner thoughts, and their lives, and that's a very special role that most physicians value...