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...also likely to result in unacceptably high rates of false-positive results. It recommends that athletes instead be screened through a health questionnaire and physical examination, with an ECG used only as a secondary investigation. "Our current position on screening young people before athletic competition calls for a thorough patient and family medical history and a physical exam as the first line of screening, and the advice of the individual's health-care provider to decide on further testing," Dr. Clyde Yancy, president of the AHA, told TIME in a prepared statement...
...past several years, Britain's Department of Health has spent about $200 million a year on hiring international management-consultant firms, hoping to find ways to counter rising health-care costs associated with an aging population, expensive new medical treatments and rising patient expectations. The result is often a clash of cultures. A former analyst at A.T. Kearney, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity because of a nondisclosure clause in his contract, recounted the reaction of senior British health officials when he suggested that they adjust for increases in pharmaceutical costs by upping the fee patients...
...goal is to ensure that [the revised policy] unambiguously expresses the original intent of offering students resources as they learn to navigate the patient-doctor relationship,” said Dean for Students Nancy E. Oriol in a statement...
Stunned by student reaction to the policy, administrators said that the policy was originally designed to “ensure that students are sensitive to issues that relate to the patient perspective,” especially in protecting patient confidentiality, Dienstag said...
...been lampooning his old master from a musty studio in a run-down suburb of western Seoul. In the eponymous work Kim Jong Il, the North Korean supremo is shown in a pink tracksuit, grinning and fat. In Please Have Some Medicine (pictured), he is a dying hospital patient being offered Coca-Cola by a faceless North Korean child. In Remote Controller, he is a demigod overseeing destruction, militarization and fear...