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...have liked to go further by scrapping direct payments to farmers altogether, and end price-fixing mechanisms. However, with France and Germany lining up a trenchant defense of the CAP supports, Fischer Boel's hopes for a modest health check are already provoking a furious reaction from the stubborn patient...
...waiting for an organ transplant. It is also the one procedure that Medicare has covered unconditionally since 1972 despite rapid and sometimes expensive innovations in its administration. To tally the cost-effectiveness of such innovations Zenios and his colleagues ran a computer analysis of more than half a million patients who underwent dialysis, adding up costs and comparing that data to treatment outcomes. Considering both inflation and new technologies in dialysis, they arrived at $129,000 as a more appropriate threshold for deciding coverage. "That means that if Medicare paid an additional $129,000 to treat a group of patients...
...corruption, according to a new study in the May issue of Psychological Science. The study, a collaboration between U.S. and Dutch researchers, finds that if people feel powerful in their roles, they may be less likely to make on-the-job errors - like administering the wrong medication to a patient. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the study suggests that people at the bottom of the workplace totem pole don't end up there for lack of ability, but rather that being low and powerless in a hierarchy leads to more mistakes. It's a finding that surprised even the study...
...that acceptance is due to the fact that Oregon's law seems to work - despite critics' concerns that the law would only encourage abuse, few such instances have been reported since the law was passed in 1994 and implemented in 1997. The state's legislation requires that the patient, who must be at least 18 and an Oregon resident, make two requests to die within two weeks. Two doctors must also concur that the patient has no more than six months to live and that he is not suffering from any mental illness, including depression. Since 2002 about 40 Oregonians...
Carlson says he's living proof that doctors can get things wrong, and he worries that the "right to die" will translate to premature suicide. One of his biggest concerns is that while an MD is supposed to make sure the patient is not depressed, the law does not require people seeking euthanasia to undergo a formal psychiatric evaluation by a mental health professional - none of the 49 physician-assisted suicide patients in Oregon last year had one, according to the Oregon Department of Health Services. Meanwhile, Carlson notes, an estimated 90% of suicides in the U.S. are associated with...