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Sports Medicine
Doctors Experiment With New Way of Fixing the A.C.L.
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS Anterior cruciate ligaments often tear on the sports field, and after a complete rupture, they are notoriously hard to…
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What Doctors Aren’t Learning In Medical School And Why It Matters
By Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA In the 1960s, America’s doctor was Marcus Welby, a family physician who made house calls,…
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Top Stories
When Doctors Don’t Talk to Doctors
By Allison Bond I could tell my patient was dying. In the final stage of liver failure, she lay listlessly…
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Extremities
Do doctors have the right ‘bedside manner’ for telehealth?
Eric Wicklund – Editor, mHealthNews Doctors and nurses are often praised (or admonished) for their bedside manner. But in today’s…
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Financial
Value-based care: Bad for doctors, bad for patients?
MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Value-based health care is antithetic to patient-centered care. Value-based health care is also diametrically opposed to excellence, transparency…
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Will Technology Replace Doctors?
JOE FLOWER Put the question in 1880: Will technology replace farmers? Most of them. In the 19th century, some 80%…
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Survey: 81% of physicians feel over-extended by patient load
Author Name Jennifer Bresnick EHRs, meaningful use, and ICD-10 aren’t the only things stressing out physicians who are increasingly struggling…
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Why Doctors Are Sick of Their Profession
By SANDEEP JAUHAR All too often these days, I find myself fidgeting by the doorway to my exam room,…
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Throwing Money at the Past
By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. The current physician training system, heavily subsidized by the federal government, has not produced doctors prepared…
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Report Says Big Changes Are Needed In How Doctors Are Trained
by JULIE ROVNER “We recognize we are recommending substantial change,” says health economist and former Medicare Administrator Gail Wilensky, co-chairwoman of…
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