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...and different from other healthcare systems around the world, particularly in terms of its meticulous protection of patient data,” said Julian Brown, chief executive of Eclipse, and a practising general physician...
...Instead, only about 5,600 patients had been approved for treatment by early April, according to a registry by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shared with the Financial Times....
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...But in today’s financialised healthcare system, it’s more likely to be a private equity-owned “physician staffing” company....
...Blackstone acquired hospital staffing supplier Team Health in 2016 and two years later, KKR bought physician services and emergency room operator Envision Healthcare for $9.9bn....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 3. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The service now has roughly 90,000 patients on its books, making it the largest GP “practice” in England....
...Some experts predict it will quickly become Medicare’s largest expenditure for physician-administered drugs. The potential costs go well beyond just the medicine....
...In late 2019, the US Anti-Doping Agency levied four-year bans against Alberto Salazar and Jeffrey Brown, respectively the group’s coach and physician, for “orchestrating and facilitating prohibited doping...
...In Thailand, the consultancy observed that Doctor Raksa, a telemedicine service that offers consultations with doctors through video platforms, tapped AI to assist physicians in performing preliminary diagnoses...
...In May 2019, he suffered a serious stroke while hosting a party; a physician guest noticed the symptoms and had him rushed to a hospital....
...The judge found the proper remedy was an “abatement plan”, which he calculated to include costs for the management of substance abuse treatment programmes, public education and medical services — for example...
...At the end of 2018 CoreCivic, which has a market value of $2.3bn, managed almost 80 correctional, detention and re-entry facilities with 78,000 beds....
...It also settled a larger case of $600m back in 2007, where three executives pleaded guilty to misleading and defrauding physicians by claiming that OxyContin was less addictive than it was....
...“We believe our first responsibility is to the patients, doctors and nurses, to mothers and fathers and all others who use our products and services....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on May 5 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A practising physician and Harvard professor, Dr Gawande gained national recognition as a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and a best-selling author....
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...Sandoz’s decision to invest in a project to educate physicians and patients about copycat versions of biologic drugs — medicines made from living cells — with no guarantee of an immediate commercial return...
...Drug companies, hospitals and physicians charge for pills, procedures and visits, not outcomes....
...These anticompetitive practices are preventing physicians from trying and patients from accessing the biosimilar. J&J did not immediately respond to a request for comments....
...People who complete the test get a score indicating the severity of their symptoms, which can aid a physician‘s diagnosis....
...“We’d be packaging them in two, four, six and eight-day packs, so more physicians might be encouraged to prescribe that,” said Dr Gottlieb....
...Long before they found fame as everyone’s favourite TV patrician and fictional TV physician, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie performed a sketch show challenging modern social mores....
...A separate report looks at "spin" in biomedical journals and another examines conflicts of interest from physicians mentioning certain drugs on Twitter....
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