Word: patiently
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...Employment Retirement Income Security Act, more than 125 million Americans currently covered by their employer's HMO programs cannot sue their provider for punitive damages. It doesn't matter if the HMO manager is a bumbling idiot or a devious scrooge. It doesn't matter even if the patient dies or loses a limb to negligence...
Defenders of the current system argue, with some merit, that permitting people to sue insurers would lead to a flood of litigation, enrich lawyers, raise the cost of coverage and leave complex and emotional medical decisions to a patchwork of courts and juries. Expanding a patient's right to sue "would probably be the most inflationary change in the history of health care," says David Simon, Aetna's chief legal officer. "You'd be telling people, 'Go sue like crazy. Make $89 million verdicts routine...
...same time excising every last bit of caring from our health-care system. Knowledge without the insight to use it compassionately is terrifying, as your article on eugenics made abundantly clear. Give me the new genetically engineered therapies, but, Mr. Insurance Man, also give me a moment with my patient to explain what it all means. JONATHAN SHELDON, M.D. Englewood, Colo...
Although virtual patient technology means that students are not interacting with real patients, Rabkin said the tool prepares students for a wide variety of situations and makes the time they spend interacting with patients more productive...
Make no mistake, these are powerful drugs. Side effects can include fatigue, insomnia and, in men, impotence. Physicians must start the patient on low doses to allow the body to adapt to the medication. They must monitor the patient closely, at least in the first few weeks, for signs of overdose. The drugs cannot be taken by people with severe heart failure or asthma. Nor are they appropriate for folks whose heart condition is a result of valve disease. Even certain over-the-counter medications, such as Tagamet, can interfere with their action. But many patients whose lives have been...