Word: internist
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...Recently angels have seemed to be busy whispering in my friends' ears as well. Margaret went to her internist and asked for a "once over." Although a physically active woman in her forties without any significant medical history or symptoms, she wanted the peace of mind of knowing she was in generally good health. Since her annual pap smears and mammograms were all in order, she wanted the rest of her to be checked out. Her doctor acquiesced and ordered a chest x-ray, screening blood work (both of which were fine) and a colonoscopy. During the colonoscopy, the gastroenterologist...
This is a situation in which it's good to have an internist like Dr. Donna Sweet of Wichita, Kans., for a physician. "We're talking about a study with 32 people," says Sweet, who also chairs the board of the American College of Physicians. "I tell my patients, 'If you've done well on Ambien in the past, you'll continue to do well on Ambien. You're not going to suddenly start eating in your sleep...
...major car accident, have been stabbed or shot or hit over the head with a pipe, the soonest you could go into the operating room now is about an hour--and that's if you 'schedule' your trauma between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m.," says Dr. Peter DeBlieux, an internist at the temporary convention center site...
...doctors to attend conferences or spouses to attend industry-sponsored dinners at restaurants. The American Medical Association limits gift value to around $100 per gift and stipulates that all gifts, such as informational dinners and free drug samples, should benefit patients. Dr. Bob Goodman, a New York City internist who founded No Free Lunch in 1999 to combat the practice of accepting gifts, says doctors should push back harder. "Gifts are gifts. Whether they benefit patients or not, they're just freeing physicians' other income" in a way that creates indebtedness, he says...
...says about 2.3 million kids ages 12 to 17 took legal medications illegally in 2003, the latest year for which figures are available. That's three times the number in 1992, or about 1 out of every 10 teens. "It's a hidden epidemic," says Dr. Nicholas Pace, an internist at New York University Medical Center. "Parents don't want to admit there's a problem out there...