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Before you jump into a new mom and baby service, be sure you have a market for the program, suggests Candace Sharkey, RN, MS, executive director of HealthTouch in Wakefield, RI. We did extensive market research before we implemented the program to make sure there was a need for doulas, Sharkey says.
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A report published in the February Annals of Internal Medicine has received lots of attention as the study that says older doctors dont keep up, but the findings of the Harvard Medical School study apply to any physician who has been out of residency for five years or more, its author says.
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So-called conscience-clause laws that permit physicians to refuse to perform certain procedures or deliver certain types of care came into popularity after the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion in 1973.
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Suspecting that a colleague might be impaired by drugs or alcohol is difficult; knowing what to do with those suspicions is even harder.
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002 issued a report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare, that concludes that bias, prejudice, and stereotyping on the part of health care providers may result in differences in care.
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A man whose familys high-profile and successful campaign to solicit a donated liver to save his life has died, eight months after the transplant.
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The hospitals status as the only business in the world that cannot turn people away regardless of whether it gets paid is a fact of life that is being underscored more dramatically than ever as the nations uninsured population grows by leaps and bounds.
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The latest addition to the extensive self-pay menu offered by Marlton, NJ-based Virtua Health is the General Electric medical credit card program, says Virtua's assistant vice president for patient business services.
