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...there are so few nurses to protect them. Everyone points to money as the problem, but most nurses will tell you that it was a general decline in their perceived value as caregivers that began the descent into the system we have today. If you want to have a physician who can take good care of you, you need nurses who will share that duty and keep that doctor informed. JODY NICHOLS, R.N. San Marino, Calif...
...Victor Conte, the Willy Wonka of designer steroids, had provided him with anything more than supplements—“flax seed oil”—to bulk up. While cheating in baseball is rightly being scorned and receiving the attention it deserves, another brand of physician-prescribed cheating is all but ignored today. I’m talking about the cheating that takes place in the academic sphere under the guise of the learning disability—in particular that associated with Adderall.Today, many physicians prescribe Adderall tablets as if they are as harmless as Jolly...
...earlier statement issued on Thursday, Kennedy denied consuming alcohol and said that he was under the influence of two medications that had been prescribed to him by the Capitol physician -Phenergan, an antinausea medication, and Ambien, a sleep aid which recent studies have shown may be linked to many car accidents across the country...
...Number of reported deaths by physician-assisted suicide last year in Oregon--which has about one-fifth the population of the Netherlands--up from 16 in 1998, the first full year it was legal...
Students crowded into corridors of the Center for Population and Development Studies yesterday to hear Presley Professor of Social Medicine Paul Farmer discuss his pioneering model for treating infectious diseases in developing countries. A captivated audience listened as Farmer, an internationally acclaimed physician and public health activist, explained how his HIV Equity Initiative is expanding its prevention and care programs to impoverished rural communities to Rwanda. The intiative, which is part of Farmer’s “Partners in Health” charity, was the first program in the world to offer free antiretroviral therapy and has been...