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...regimen of at-home doctors' visits can ward off some of those problems. "We get call after call from desperate relatives," says Constance Row, executive director of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians, a national organization based in Edgewood, Md., that lists on its website aahcp.org doctors and other providers, like nurse-practitioners and physician assistants, who make house calls. "Often it's a son or daughter-in-law trying to find care for a parent in another part of the country," she says. "Other times it's the spouse of someone who needs care, and they are unable...
...family telecom business. Now, after months of political instability, the military brass appeared to have gotten much closer to unseating the Thai leader than months of democratic assembly had. "Of course, I wish that the political situation had been solved in a democratic way," says Makarathep Thepkanjana, a physician who joined the anti-Thaksin rallies back in the spring and who was now standing next to a tank at the gates of Government House. "But, we are exhausted from having so many rallies. We're happy that the military coup is happening, because it means that Thaksin will be gone...
...also unnerved young Iranians by reviving some social restrictions and imposing a more Islamic atmosphere on university campuses. In recent months, the government has shut down two publications, sporadically raided illegal satellite-TV dishes and promoted measures to enforce more conservative forms of Islamic dress. Maryam, 32, a physician's assistant, thinks things will get worse: "It's clear he's going to close newspapers and act like a radical...
...medical authors. From such disclosures it quickly becomes apparent that much “research” is simply a feature of a broad continuum of pharmaceutical and medical device promotion. The research is designed and processed by industry; the FDA accepts the selective data; the audience of prescribing physicians is primed with a beautiful array of advertisements and educational promotion; the “thought leaders” among physicians are paid to lecture and influence; academics further work mightily to expand a disease concept to include greater application of product; emoluments are funneled to favored physicians to perform...
...trouble with a local anesthetic," says Zapol. "We can get in trouble with a spinal anesthetic," which keeps pain signals from getting to the brain but doesn't make the patient sleepy. "We can overdose you in all of those places." Someone, whether it's an anesthesiologist, another physician or a fully trained nurse, has to be ready to deal with that possibility. "Surgeons are experts at kidneys and ureters and coronary arteries and lungs. They're skillful people," Zapol says. But someone has to keep the rest of the body going while they operate...