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Although contract negotiations differ from agency to agency and from one managed care organization to another, there are some very common "gotchas" for which agency managers need to look.
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Historically, courts generally have concluded that providers are liable for the actions of their employees but not for the actions of independent contractors.
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The right of competent, informed patients to reject lifesaving therapies has been affirmed by courts at every level, but a group of ethicists at the University of Pennsylvania wondered whether the line is as clear when it comes to supplemental oxygen.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most common infectious cause of death in adults worldwide after HIV/AIDS. Approximately one-third of the world's population, or approximately 2 billion people, are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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The ECG image in this article was obtained from an elderly woman who was being seen in the office for shortness of breath. No chest pain. What do you make of her "arrows and tachycardia?"
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Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in man, and as seen below, a frequent cause of emergency department (ED) visits. Diabetics now have more treatment options available, better delivery systems for their insulin and greater technology to allow them to self-monitor their glucose levels. We now know that good control of glucose is the best defense against the deadly long-term consequences of diabetesblindness, renal disease, peripheral neuropathy, etc.
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