Well its pretty much official, our own Tom Daschle will be the secretary of HHS. What does this mean for doctors and patients in South Dakota? What does this mean for doctors and patients nationwide?
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While many South Dakotans are glad we are done with "Initiative 11" Zita Lazzarini thinks South Dakota has already taken it too far. Today in the NEJM, Lazzarini says that the current law that was passed in 2005 known as the "abortion script" threatens the physician-patient relationship.
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D’Zhana Simmons says she felt like a “fake person” for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. “But I know that I really was here,” the 14-year-old said, “and I did live without a heart.”
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Yesterday I was talking about my worries of becoming a bitter doctor. But why do doctors loose morale? Today, Sarah Rubenstein of the WSJ gave me some insight on this matter.
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Maybe it was ten years ago I heard a political reformer pose the question: What if we paid for groceries like we pay for health care in the U.S.& how different would it be? He described buying groceries where there would be no reason to look for a bargain, but rather motivation to buy the most expe
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 20 percent of high school students smoked cigarettes last year. Smoking rates among ninth- to 12th-graders have remained stable for the past five years.
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These last two posts highlighting some of the medical education we would like to give through this blog to the general public, has had me look back on my extremely short medical career (currently in week 17).
Healhcare reform is in the air, and from what I've read and heard about the morale o
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It was 1972 and I was a green sophomore med student spending my summer shadowing a doctor in Watertown. As soon as we walked into the patients room, my hero-teacher told me the patient was suffering from an acute attack of gout.
The crusty old German doctor explained we were seeing the classic
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