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...result, innocent doctors who have devoted their lives to their patients are required to spend tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars a year on insurance. In effect, we are making doctors give up an entire chunk of each year laboring just to work off their insurance premiums. Why? To cover for the few offenders in their midst. To compensate the lucky few victims who stumble upon the most profligate juries. And, most important, to make a few trial lawyers very, very rich. (Herewith the requisite full disclosure: I am a doctor, though I no longer practice...
...doctor wants to strike no more than does a textile worker. But the malpractice burden - indeed, the malpractice threat - is the final assault on the implicit contract society makes with its healers: you give up the best decade of your youth, your 20s, to treat the sick and learn your craft, and we will allow you to practice it with autonomy, dignity and the kind of security - and freedom from capricious victimization - that, oh, say, lawyers enjoy...
...surrounding cars rushed to the rescue of the other victims. A physician helped clear the windpipe of a woman and resuscitate two of the other injured, staying long enough to direct the arriving paramedics to those who most needed help. Only after he left did anyone realize that the doctor was Bill Frist, incoming majority leader of the U.S. Senate...
...education. Those promises could be hard to keep if he wages an expensive war with Iraq. "We're going to have to produce," says Nebraska G.O.P. Senator Chuck Hagel. "If we don't, Republicans are going to get hit hard the next two years." If that happens, having a doctor on call may not be enough. --With reporting by John F. Dickerson/Washington
...fray, coffee consumption is on the wane worldwide. In response, I am on a personal mission to reverse the trend. Last month I went to a doctor’s appointment, and while holding my travel mug, admitted that I drink 3 cups of coffee a day. My doctor asked, “Is that the cup?” I said yes. She pointed out that it was an 18-ounce mug, and the equivalent of nine cups a day. I told her that it was Fair Trade coffee, and healthy for the world...