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News: A nursing home resident with a history of difficulty in swallowing choked to death while eating a piece of brisket. Although staff attempted to perform the Heimlich maneuver and CPR on her, the woman died.
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It's bad enough when a patient suffers an adverse event from a wrong-site surgery or a medication error; it only adds insult to injury when the patient or his insurer is billed for the procedure in which the error occurred.
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Is a sick person in Houston more likely to seek care at Methodist Hospital because that facility is the "official hospital" of the Houston Astros, a Major League Baseball team?
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Poor, uninsured people report disrespect, racial discrimination, or other unfair treatment during health care visits, according to a recent study.
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Researchers in Japan and the United States, in simultaneous and nearly identical findings, may have doused one of the most heated controversies in health science research by discovering a way to transform adult human skin cells into cells that closely resemble and act like embryonic stem cells.
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It wasn't years of medical education, AIDS research, and experience that especially prepared Ruth Berggren, MD, to accept her appointment as interim director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas at San Antonio it was, specifically, six days in New Orleans.
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You and a colleague have authored a clinical monograph on pelvic fractures, and the article is with the journal's editor, being prepared for publication.
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A 2004 study published in the Annals of Family Medicine analyzed when patients want a discussion about spirituality and what they want done with the information.
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When it comes to talking with physicians about documentation or admissions criteria, it's often not what you say but how you say it that helps you get an answer.
