Word: physicians
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Doctors call it the brown-bag test, and a growing number of them administer it the first time they meet with someone over the age of 65. The idea is for patients to empty the contents of their home medicine chest into a bag and bring it into the physician's office to show which drugs they have been taking. The results can be horrifying. Although most older Americans are taking fewer than five prescription drugs, it is not uncommon to find people who are swallowing three times that number. Often the person is being treated by several doctors...
...Bayard Britton, 69, was wearing a bullet-proof vest, but the gunman shot him in the head. The wife of the slain escort was injured. Paul Hill, who has in the past advocated violence as a biblically sanctioned means to stop abortion, has been arrested. Another Pensacola abortion-clinic physician was murdered in March, 1993. Spokespeople for and against abortion rights condemned today's slaying...
...patients' minds is, 'Nobody wants him. What's wrong with him?' " So these days Dr. Shuwarger is having trouble ; making ends meet: he is living on his savings and may close down his practice. And then? He's thinking of looking for a job as a staff physician in a managed-care plan. If it will have...
...bookkeeping time, patients are just a source of cash. In Texas the lawsuit brought by Dr. Maidenberg and four other doctors accuses Aetna of violating their "property rights" by taking away their patients. In Florida, when the Humana insurance plan sued Dr. Ira Jacobson because the Miami family physician quit and took 170 Humana patients with him, it demanded payment of $700 a head for its lost customers. A state appeals court ruled in December 1992 that Dr. Jacobson owed nothing; after all, said the court, Humana did not own the patients...
...Most people suffering from heart failure are apparently not getting the proper drug treatment. Nor do they follow their doctor's orders on diet and exercise. New federal guidelines call for greater reliance on drugs called ACE inhibitors, which help lower blood pressure, and improved communication and cooperation between physician and patient...