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...care providers. This requires adding more clinicians and providing more training and mentoring—expensive additions to a system that already has twice as many mental health clinicians per student as any comparably-sized university health service in the country and that spends nearly three times more per patient than traditional health plans spend per patient on mental health. Designing these steps is also underway...
Since doctors have the right to perform such operations, it is up to the patient to monitor their backgrounds and decide whether he or she feels comfortable with their training. A patient should also investigate the facility where a procedure would be performed. Technological advances have made it possible to perform intricate surgeries in nonhospital settings on an outpatient basis. Some are done in private, freestanding surgical centers, others in doctors' offices...
These are two entirely different places in every possible way. In Cambridge, drivers become angry when the Ford Focus in front of them tries to turn left onto JFK during rush hour. In the North Country, drivers seem surprisingly patient while stuck behind an Amish buggy in the no-passing zone of a winding, two-lane road...
...Richard Fleming, a cardiologist in Omaha, Neb., who opposes the Atkins regimen, somehow got the New York City medical examiner's office to send him Atkins' confidential medical report. Such reports are meant to be given only to the next of kin or a physician who has treated the patient. Fleming, who was neither, handed the records to a pro-vegetarian group called the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an organization that opposes the meat-loving Atkins movement so vehemently it has a website called atkins diet alert.org The committee then sent the medical examiner's report...
What makes the achievement even more significant is that it gives doctors a way to create stem cells bearing a patient's own DNA. Tissues grown from those cells could replace diseased tissue in the patient without any risk of rejection...