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...this isn't L.A. It's New Delhi, and the patient is Rahul Mahajan, son of Pramod, former leader of the opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, who was killed in a family dispute last month. In this conservative city of 14 million, corruption scandals may be routine, but designer drugs have historically seemed as easy to find as steak...
TIME's table comparing the prices for medical procedures in the U.S. and Asian countries showed that U.S. hospitals charge uninsured patients twice what they bill an insurance company for the identical procedure on an insured patient. That lamentable and unethical practice should be the shame of hospital administrators everywhere. In effect, they put the screws to those who can least afford...
Until a doctor understands how a disease affects a patient's social life, daily routines, family interactions and anxieties, she or he does not really know that disease. A physician can gain credibility with patients and their families by asking how a disease is affecting their personal lives. Patients will feel understood and will be more likely to comply with the doctor's suggestions and instructions...
...week; that protocol was never exceeded for the next 30 years. Since 1983, the crowds that come to the region have had to settle for Lascaux II, a modern facsimile that gives them an inkling of the cave paintings' power. But before the fungus outbreak, anyone determined and patient enough could successfully petition the authorities for permission to visit the real thing. The only precaution was a requirement that visitors walk through a trough of formaldehyde solution--the regimen that Pallot-Frossard of the LRMH suggests may have inadvertently enabled the fusarium to flourish...
Medical care can be a gamble--and patients often don't understand the odds. University of California researchers aim to change that, with an interactive Web-based tool that they are calling the roulette wheel. This color-coded visual model uses a computer algorithm to help patients and their doctors assess the possible outcomes of different treatments. Take the prostate-specific-antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer, for example. The wheel for PSA screening shows a typical patient the potential harm (incontinence, impotence, death) or benefit (no symptoms) that could result from treatment following a PSA test in which high...