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...That’s why everyone under the age of 65 is routinely tested at the University of Chicago hospital emergency room — no matter why they came in — says Dr Kimberly Stanford, an ER physician....
...Texoma said in a statement that it “no longer contracted with APP for ER physician services”. APP’s removal paved the way for the doctors to set up their own staffing company at the hospital....
...Most ER medics were employed by co-operatives run by the doctors themselves. But in today’s financialised healthcare system, it’s more likely to be a private equity-owned “physician staffing” company....
...Like many who move to Hawaii, Daniel Hutchens, an ER doctor at a hospital in Honolulu — the state capital, located on Oahu — came for the outdoor life....
...The root of the pain began three years ago, when the emergency room physician, Stanford Law School graduate and Beverly Hills mother took on the medical establishment....
...A new boss should therefore take the traditional physician’s oath: first, do no harm....
...Admitted to hospital for hyper-sedation, physicians recommended she stop using the spray — but her doctor continued to prescribe it....
...They included physicians, financiers and a retired attorney....
...Dr Andrew Kolodny, head of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, says “prescriptions will plateau or even come down a bit now that the genie is out of the bottle”....
...Hold them cheap/ May who ne’er hung there.” Hopkins often felt he was half-mad but he went on writing, teaching and corresponding with unstinting honesty and intellectual verve....
...Given the shortage of physicians nationwide, it is hard to say this is not a good thing....
...It will no longer do, for example, to have highly compensated physicians typing patient symptoms and histories into the patient record....
...This seemingly paradoxical argument was best stated by Bernard Mandeville, an early 18th century English physician of Dutch origin, in a parable entitled The Fable of the Bees in which he depicts the fate...
...“You can’t go to an ER to get a filling.”...
...public reports of their gifts to physicians and teaching hospitals....
...This explains the otherwise bizarre celebratory mood in the White House this week after the president’s physician, Jeffrey Kuhlman, revealed there had been a sharp deterioration in Mr Obama’s health....
...The patient – comatose – must be rushed to the nearest Public Policy Emergency Room and revived by the attending physician....
...Lam is an emergency physician by trade and his writing feels bloodily authentic....
...Cazenove said the report might “go some way to shoring up physicians’ confidence in the safety profile of Avandia”, adding that the chance of the product being withdraw was “rapidly diminishing”....
...We have an alliance management programme in place, where aFT:er the deal’s done someone is there to help you integrate into a very complex organisation....
...But that may not be as futuristic as this: "The insurer pays the hospital and physicians before Rodney returns home....
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