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...using several antibiotics simultaneously, the doctors in Michigan brought their patient's infection under control. Even so, health officials suspect that vancomycin-resistant staph will soon appear in other U.S. hospitals as well. Calling for stringent antiseptic procedures, they urged doctors to report cases of vancomycin-resistant staph promptly...
Small-scale privacy atrocities take place every day. Ask Dr. Denise Nagel, executive director of the National Coalition for Patient Rights, about medical privacy, for example, and she rattles off a list of abuses that would make Big Brother blush. She talks about how two years ago, a convicted child rapist working as a technician in a Boston hospital riffled through 1,000 computerized records looking for potential victims (and was caught when the father of a nine-year-old girl used caller ID to trace the call back to the hospital). How a banker on Maryland's state health...
...patient, advocates argue. Says Thomas Romberg, a University of Wisconsin professor who helped write the revolutionary 1989 math standards: "We knew there needed to be a fair amount of research and teacher training. We knew it would take 20 or 25 years to pull this off." Parents whose 12-year-olds still can't count on their fingers may not want to wait that long...
...annual conference here today, is fighting the Centers for Disease Control guideline preventing HIV-infected doctors performing "exposure-prone" procedures. "It has created hysteria ... physicians have lost their jobs simply because they are HIV-positive," GLMA director Ben Schatz told TIME Daily. "The chances of a physician infecting a patient are less likely than a patient infecting the physician...
...having their little misleading joke. For we soon see that underneath the crazy bluster, there is a certain woozy sweetness about Jerry, something suggesting that he is in occasional touch with rationality. Alice (Julia Roberts), the Justice Department attorney he's spying on, notices it too. She's uncommonly patient on the several occasions when he bursts out of the shadows and intrudes on her otherwise orderly life, babbling--well, yes--Conspiracy Theory...