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White Coats, White Lies: How Honest Is Your Doctor?
We rank physicians among the most trustworthy members of our society, but a new survey finds the respect isn’t always mutual.
Should Your Doctor Be Napping on the Job?
Napping works great for preschoolers. Why not for tired doctors and nurses?
‘Stuck Up!’ Odd Objects Inserted in Odder Places
You have to see the X-rays to believe it. In their new book, Stuck Up!, Drs. Rich Dreben, Murdoc Knight and Marty Sindhian catalog the bizarre collection of “rectal foreign bodies” that patients come to the emergency room to have …
Viewpoint: Why Dr. Feelgood Isn’t Always Wrong
Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson, is currently on trial in Los Angeles for involuntary manslaughter, two years after the death of the singer — of “acute propofol intoxication” — was officially ruled a …
Don’t Call My Kid Fat! Parents Want Doctors to Talk About ‘Unhealthy Weight’
One in three American kids is overweight or obese, but don’t tell their parents that. New research in the journal Pediatrics finds that Mom and Dad recoil when doctors describe their children as “fat” or “obese.” They would …
NYT: Undercover Patients to Test Doctors for Government Survey
“Everybody with a brain knows we do not have enough doctors,” Dr. Robert L. Hogue, a family physician in Brownwood, Texas, told the New York Times Monday morning in criticizing a new plan by the Obama administration to hire …
Study: Most Addicts Get Painkillers from Friends or Family, Not Doctors
Only 1 in 5 people who misuse opioid painkillers like Vicodin get their drugs exclusively from doctors, and 69% never obtain any of these drugs from medical sources, according to a recent study published in the Archives of …
Happy Clean Your Hands Day!
You should listen to your mother: always wash your hands. That’s especially true if you work in health care, where poor hand hygiene can be matter of life and death.
A New Health Site in Beta Testing for Pregnant Women, New Moms
Getting pregnant and having a baby can turn the most confident woman into an uncertain, anxiety-wracked ball of nerves. There are questions like this: is the pain in my belly a sign of my uterus expanding or of impending …
Gender Gap in Doctors’ Starting Salaries: $17,000!
A review of starting salaries for new physicians leaving residency programs in New York State in 2008 found that men made $16,819 more per year than women. In 1999, that salary difference was only $3,600. In other words, the …