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...doctor's computer processes the slices, creating a 3-D composite that can show the pumping action of the heart...
...knock-on effect of this has been the tidying up of Main Street itself. Cafés and galleries have mushroomed there; so have boutiques - particularly around 21st and Main. Now branded a "fashion district" by local style mavens, South Main, or "SoMa," is just what the shopping doctor ordered. Bound for Vancouver and looking for a little Canadian chic? Here's a selection of our favorite SoMa outlets: THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA The slogan of this boutique, live elegantly without going broke, lures SoMa's cost-conscious pretty young things - but there's no reason cashed-up visitors...
...more treatable than an advanced lung cancer. If you have a cancer that can be operated, that can be removed, you have a very good chance, a better chance than not, of being able to be cured. But the problem is that most people who go to doctor with some sort of symptom already have advanced lung cancer, so it's too late...
...help encourage openness, over the past few years, such states as Florida, North Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Colorado, Arizona and Oregon have passed bills under which a doctor's apology for a medical mistake or expression of sympathy is inadmissible in civil court. A few like Pennsylvania are even mandating the prompt, formal disclosure of any such errors to patients and state authorities. Legislation has been introduced in Congress to help set up similar pilot programs in other states, and President Bush recently signed a bill establishing a confidential and voluntary system for reporting medical errors. In addition to giving people...
...errors, Dingman started a patient-advocacy organization called PULSE, or Persons United Limiting Substandards and Errors in health care. "In every scenario, people who have filed lawsuits wish they hadn't had to go through this," she says. "One hundred percent of the time, we hear, 'If only the doctor had apologized...