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...preventive care in general. Things like mammograms, pap smears, PSA testing, those are considered preventive care procedures - and there's a clear evidence base that these are very important for patients to receive. What we're talking about [in our] study is the special visit for [general] preventive care. Physicians say, "The preventive exam is the only time I can really devote to focusing on preventive care." But we found that 80% of preventive services are provided at other types of visits. The vast majority of patients who come in for a physical exam have already seen their physician...
...discuss if there is some interval at which a patient should come in. One of the major goals of my work was to bring together consensus in the physician community. But until we come to some consensus, what should patients do? My sense is that they should have a discussion with their physicians about this. First, make sure they're up to date with the preventive health services that everyone in the physician community supports, including mammograms and colon cancer screening. But, then, if their physician tells them, "You don't need to come in next year...
Sixty-three years ago, in 1945, my grandmother qualified as a young physician in Iraq. Her parents had accepted her decision not to wear the concealing black “abaya,” and she walked freely in the streets with her friends. Thirty years later, with oil prices spiraling in the wake of regional conflicts, she was one of a generation of female professors, department heads, and even ministers in Baghdad. To this day, her daughter, my aunt, fights for women’s rights, unbowed and unscarved, in the Iraqi capital...
...Diamond entered Harvard College with a classics scholarship and a determination to go into medicine like his physician father...
...intention of sending the audience to sleep. The concert, to be held at the Tokyo International Forum, is a live rendition of music selected for a Japan Airlines in-flight audio relaxation channel. The pieces, which include Schubert's Ave Maria and a Mozart Divertimento, were tested by a physician specializing in sleeping disorders and compiled into Good Sleep CD: Dreams - a hugely popular album in sleep-deprived, stressed-out Japan...