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Then there’s medical malpractice claims. In states known to award high punitive damages like Florida, general practitioners must carry hundreds of thousands of dollars of malpractice insurance, and the rates are rising in some places at higher than 20 percent per year. Doctors, who still make only a few hundred thousand dollars per year, are being driven out of the business. Earlier this month, 600 doctors in Texas closed their offices for a day to protest this treatment, all the result of lawyers who know a well-insured doctor to be a sitting duck. Even...
...still wondering if you are healthy enough to fly? If you can walk 150 ft. or climb a flight of stairs without getting winded, you'll probably do just fine. Having a doctor close by doesn't hurt, either...
John Wolff, who turns 96 this month, drives his 1995 Buick Regal to doctor's appointments, local shops and, on Saturdays, to teach a class at Georgetown law school. "I just love to drive," he says. "It's the key to my independence." Wolff's daughter, Patricia Hartman, 59, is somewhat less enthusiastic about her dad's outings, but she tries not to worry about her father's driving...
...best-preserved city in Southeast Asia six years ago and put it on the World Heritage list. "What a delightful paradise of idleness this country protects, by the fierce barrier of the stream, against progress and ambition for which it has no need," wrote Marthe Bassene, a resident French doctor's wife, in 1909. Her words have since been immortalized in the august pages of the Lonely Planet. "Will Luang Prabang be ... the refuge of the last dreamers, the last lovers, the last troubadours...
...report last week, quoting controversial Italian doctor Severino Antinori as saying that he had impregnated a woman with a cloned a human embryo, thankfully appears to be false. But while most in the scientific community doubt that any scientists have yet cloned humans, the very prospect lends new urgency to the cloning debate. This heightened awareness comes just as President Bush and the House are encouraging a divided Senate to pass a ban on all cloning research...