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Still, Aaron is quick to point out that even if patients suspect they have been misdiagnosed, they should stick with their medication until they consult their doctor. "I don't want patients to stop taking their medicine cold turkey," he said, emphasizing that the patients who ultimately went off their asthma drugs in his study did so over a period of several months while undergoing continuous tests to confirm the exclusion of asthma...
...What did you find out about the health of the livestock and the health of people eating the food? The take-home message is that there's a real information gap for the consumer. Diet-related diseases are on the rise. If you're suffering from them, your doctor is going to tell you that you've got to make informed decisions about what you eat. If you go and try to get this information in order to make these decisions, it's pretty much impossible. You've got to wonder why you have to do nuclear chemistry...
...Doctor Is In. If you're the sort that worries about getting back home in the event of a medical emergency, the air ambulance company AirMed International is offering a travel insurance packet, allowing for emergency airlifting out of any country back to a hospital in the U.S. The cost: $95 for 14 days, or $250 for a year, no medical physical required. The Mayo Clinic uses this company for medical evacuations. Check the AirMed website for more information...
...excruciating to imagine the pain not only of this child but of her parents, trying to do the right thing. They are told one night that an ambulance would come and take her away because they were not doing their job to protect her. And yet you understand why doctors will err on the side of treatment. And why the doctor who called in the authorities was concerned about the ability of anyone, especially a 13-year-old, to walk away from something that represented hope, however feeble. But you have to be grateful that the ultimate judges kept...
...made her case to her doctors; they too knew the odds and were persuaded that she was making a rational and considered decision. But one doctor, concerned that Hannah might be driven by fear or confusion, notified children's protective services of the case - which is how the Joneses found themselves fighting to retain custody of their child. "They phoned us on a Friday evening and said that if we didn't take her in, they'd come and take her," recalled Kirsty. Authorities threatened to proceed with the operation over Hannah's protests, in the name of protecting...