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...plans' mostly Latino members are also attracted by doctors who speak Spanish and who generally spend more time consulting with patients than do their U.S. counterparts. "The service is warm and empathetic," says Eduardo Pesqueira, a director of economic development for Mexico's Ministry of Health and also a physician. "The doctor is seen as a counselor by a lot of people--as a friend...
That's one reason Maria Elena Click, 44, is willing to drive 40 miles from her job in Encinitas, in north San Diego County, to visit her Tijuana physician. She switched last year from Blue Cross of California to SIMNSA when her Blue Cross premium went up. She says her new cross-border plan is not only cheaper ($26 a month for herself and her teenage daughter, as opposed to the $170 she says she paid with Blue Cross), it's also friendlier. In the U.S., "they leave you waiting in the examining room a long time," Click said...
...South Africa's North West province. Police say a meeting of the Farmers' Force, the right-wing splinter group suspected of being behind the plot, was planned in the area. But the gathering was called off when members learned that the police were on to them. A local Afrikaans physician, Lets Pretorius, was arrested - the truck was registered in his name - for alleged contravention of the Internal Security Act. Police began their roundup of right-wingers earlier this year. Months of undercover investigation led to the discovery of the Farmers' Force's written plans for an armed coup. The plans...
...foreigners from the procedure. Dignitas may be ruffling a lot of feathers, but it isn't breaking any laws. Switzerland has some of the world's most liberal statutes on assisted suicide: a doctor may provide a lethal dose of drugs to a terminally ill person if a physician is convinced that the patient has no chance of recovery, that he or she is mentally and physically capable of making the decision to die, and that the patient administers the drug him- or herself. Euthanasia, however - in which a doctor administers the drugs to end a patient's life - remains...
...Cady, is to get a baseline mammogram - the American Cancer Society recommends women start getting mammograms at 40, or earlier if there is a strong family history of breast cancer. After the first screening, women should get mammograms every 2 years - or more or less often depending on a physician's recommendation...