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Opponents have traditionally argued that dealing with long-hours and stress is a necessary skill for doctors, and that a limitation would compromise continuing patient care...
Backers of the new regulation support it as a means of enhancing the learning environments of the newest doctors and improving patient care...
...disgust that most physicians feel for the medical-malpractice tort system has to do with more than money [BUSINESS, June 9]. When a doctor is forced to regard every patient as a potential courtroom adversary as well as a human being in need, the mutual trust inherent in the physician-patient relationship is severely damaged. Working 10-to-12-hour days (plus nights and weekends on call) and constantly making life-and-death decisions are stressful enough without having to worry about lawsuits. It is easy to understand why many of my colleagues have thrown in the towel. The next...
...clear from the moment Bremer took over that the process of achieving the Bush administration's political objectives in post-Saddam Iraq might take years of patient nation-building. But what has become equally clear, in recent weeks, is that it may also require winning a second war, of counterinsurgency...
...health-care question is rarely asked: Given the limited resources, what should be our spending priorities? I suspect that the correct answer isn't subsidizing prescription drugs for all senior citizens regardless of income. A better answer might be subsidizing the worst-case health-care situations regardless of a patient's age. Obviously this would still mean prescription drugs for the elderly poor. But what would it mean for the rest of us? Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts proposed an elegant first step in his campaign health-care plan; it may be the first significant new idea of this political...