Word: physicians
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...President has said to you that I bring my family. In the audience is my brother Juan Sotomayor - he's a physician in Syracuse, New York; my sister-in-law, Tracy (ph); my niece Kiley - she looks like...
...often, says Nasca, the debate is oversimplified to, "Would you like a doctor who is not fatigued?" But the real question is in fact more nuanced: "Do you want a competent physician who knows you to treat you, even if he is fatigued...
Coburn, a practicing physician, disputes Blendon's analysis of his bill. "In the vast majority of cases, our credit will more than cover an employee's share of a health plan's cost, which is about a third of a plan's total cost, or $4,000," Coburn says. The plan would also aim to move people off of medicaid, giving low-income Americans subisidies to purchase their own coverage. "The people who will benefit the most are the people who need help the most - low-income families and the unemployed. If you don't have...
Still, if the screen can stratify patients by the likelihood of their cancer coming back, they might be more comfortable deciding whether to begin chemotherapy. "This is another piece of information that can guide the discussion physicians have with patients about their treatment options," says Dr. Richard Schilsky, president of ASCO and a cancer physician at the University of Chicago. And any such landmarks in that conversation are certainly welcome...
...while these results suggest that you might not even need the full-fledged needle-penetrating version to find relief, no physician is quite ready to recommend pricking yourself with toothpicks. "Further studies are going to have to tease out the relative magnitude of the placebo effect from the physiological effects of acupuncture," says Nahin. "But for patients, what the study tells you is that if you are having pain that is not being well managed by standard care, then acupuncture is a viable option...