Word: doctor
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Living through a heart attack has always been something of a crapshoot, and now that seems almost literally true. According to a new study, patients experiencing cardiac arrhythmia have a better chance of surviving if the crisis occurs in a casino or even an airplane than in a doctor's office. The reason? Most doctors just aren't equipped to handle the problem...
...more serious holiday films come with a doctor's prescription: take Amistad (or Kundun or Welcome to Sarajevo), it's good for you. But these dosages are suitable mainly for movie critics and Academy members. Real people go to the kind of fare they pay to see the rest of the year: comedies (Jerry Maguire in 1996), fantasies (101 Dalmatians) and thrillers (Scream). You can expect Flubber, Tomorrow Never Dies and--why not?--Scream 2 to make similar noise this year...
DIET DRAG It's not just dieters showing symptoms of heart trouble. Now the FDA wants anyone who has taken Redux or fenfluramine, alone or with another drug, to see a doctor...
...those pesky government bureaucrats mucking around in your health care--instead it's bureaucrats at Aetna or Prudential whom you must convince that those heart palpitations call for a look-see by a cardiologist. The great fear that you wouldn't be able to see your own doctor under Clinton care has been replaced by the reality that you won't be able to see any doctor at all. At one HMO you can see a nurse-practitioner in a week, but it takes three months to schedule an appointment with a normal, run-of-the-mill doctor. A specialist...
...Doctor dispute over Diana's last words: People Daily