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Patients like to see those certificates hanging on the office wall, of course, but a doctor who was certified many years ago and hasn't renewed that certification may not be up to speed on the most recent advances. In fact, younger doctors with a few years' practice under the belt are often the freshest. It can be instructive, however, to know if a doctor ever failed the exam--something that might reasonably be construed as a red flag. There are several websites, such as docboard.org that let you check up on your doctor by name or state...
...Second Opinions Don't Always Add Up Too many physicians are quick to refer patients to yet another doctor instead of doing the heavy lifting themselves. That's not only inefficient ? it's bad medicine
...About the Timing "When will I get back to normal" is a hard question to answer, even for a good doctor...
...Rosa would have to pay over five thousand dollars to have her wrist fixed. The lady behind door number two would get it for free. There were no "doctor's bills" in these prices; the residents are salaried by the hospital, I work the clinic for free and operated on clinic patients gratis. The hospital did, however, accept Medicaid payments. Rosa was now employed - no longer Medicaid eligible - and she had paid $45 for the clinic visit that day. And because she wasn't in any health plan that could strong arm down the hospital bill - they got about...
...York City cop, Francis X. Loughlin has a knack for getting bad guys to give it up in front of the one-way mirror. Julian Vega was 17 and "as fragile as an egg in a carton" when Loughlin nailed him for the claw-hammer murder of a young doctor. Twenty years later, Julian, now prison hardened, has been freed on a technicality and is bent on proving he didn't do it. Loughlin is equally convinced he got the right guy, but his eyesight is failing from degenerative tunnel vision, and the case has taken a bizarre twist: fresh...