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Since there are no guidelines for LASIK, it's up to each physician to decide who is the best candidate. Many refuse to operate on patients with normal-size pupils whose correction is greater than -12 for nearsightedness and +4 for farsightedness. Others will go as high...
Recently hired after-hours urgent care physician Donald Perlo talked about a new problem: patient privacy. He said UHS' current setup means students talking to receptionists or nurses about their health problems often have to do so while standing in the middle of a waiting room...
...what many athletes are trained to do: I gritted my teeth and played through the pain. By the end of the day, it hurt just walking to the car. When I took my shoes off, I noticed blood under my toenails, a troubling sight even for a physician. Just touching them caused excruciating pain...
...took years for Oregonians to settle the prickly question of whether doctors should be able to help people kill themselves. But a majority of the state's voters made clear--twice--that they favor physician-assisted suicides, at least in the limited cases of terminally ill people expected to live less than six months...
...report that looked at two cities, Boston and Boise, Idaho, shows that the pesky six-legged parasites are increasingly resistant to permethrin, the active ingredient in Nix, a popular over-the-counter remedy. What to do? Doctors suggest that you try commercial preparations; if these fail, ask your physician for a prescription pesticide. Or forget pesticides altogether, and try products with "delipidizing agents," which are found in health-food stores...