Word: internist
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...pain wars escalated last April when Virginia internist Dr. William Hurwitz was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after 16 former patients testified against him and a jury found that the death of another patient was caused by an overdose. Hurwitz's assets were seized, and now he is appealing his conviction with the help of the pain foundation and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Hurwitz defenders acknowledge that he may have practiced overly aggressive medicine and allowed addicts to snooker him, but insist he never profited from drug sales and was not a criminal. "Maybe...
Doctors have long delegated to computers such mundane tasks as billing patients and keeping track of the medication and care they receive. Now the computer is about to move into the examining room. After 15 years of development, Dr. Jack Myers, 72, an internist, and Computer Engineer and Neurology Professor Harry Pople, 51, both at the University of Pittsburgh, announced the debut of Caduceus, a computer program that has the ability to diagnose some 600 diseases. Named for the physician's snake-entwined staff, it will be field-tested in four hospitals affiliated with the university, beginning late...
...there's a Phase III, it may be taking your life in a whole new direction. Often a collision of the personal and professional triggers the reinvention. For Dr. Lisa Friedman, 52, it started when the internist had breast cancer diagnosed in September 2001. During the course of her treatment, she came to think about what she loved about being a doctor and what she hated. She loved spending time with her patients. She hated being sued by them (three malpractice suits, all of which she won). "It's a total, life-changing experience to go through a malpractice case...
...years the thermometer was the lone device in most homes for checking a family's health. If a woman thought she was pregnant, she talked to her gynecologist. If a man had chest pains, he consulted a cardiologist. If someone was a diabetic, he visited an internist who could check the sugar content of his blood...
...Walter Karney, a Navy captain and the internist who coordinated the President's annual physical examination in 1985, said last week that Dr. Edward Cattau, a member of the examining team, had in an April letter "strongly urged" a colonoscopy after the second intestinal growth was discovered. But White House sources deny that the letter, written a month after the examination, conveyed any sense of urgency...