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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the top academic medical center in the nation for employee engagement — including job satisfaction, concern for patient care and effective communication — according to a new survey by HR Solutions Inc., a Chicago-based consulting firm.
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iPatients and the demise of the bedside physical exam Stanford’s Abraham Verghese has a wonderful perspective piece in the current NEJM. With the advent of electronic information systems in hospitals, today’s medical residents spend more time in front of computer monitors instead of talking to patients. Dr. Verghese coins the term the “iPatient,” where “emergency room personnel have already scanned, tested, and diagnosed, so that interns meet a fully formed iPatient long before seeing the rea
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Does the human heart prove evolution wrong? Category: Spankin’ the Crank I think it’s instructive to see how wildly people’s minds can transform a few simple pieces of information. Recent medical findings have found that the human heart plays several roles with how we actually feel and think. In fact, the human heart is the only organ that can communicate with the brain in 4 different ways: 1) Neurological communication (nervous system) 2) Biophysical communication (pulse wave) 3) Biochemi
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NY Times Editorial: A Parting Shot at Women’s Rights: Undermining women’s reproductive rights and access to health care has been a pervasive theme of the outgoing administration. On his first full day in office, President Bush imposed the “global gag rule,” which prohibits taxpayer dollars from going to international family-planning groups that perform abortions using their own funds or that advocate for safe abortion laws. So it was unsurprising, but still dismaying, that the secretary of
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CPC of America, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CPCF.OB), a company focused on the development of therapeutic devices that enhance the quality of patient care in endovascular procedures, announced the addition of three medical and technical advisors to its team. Dr. Olexander Hnojewyj, Dr. James L. Rogers and Richard E.
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Prozac is regularly prescribed to ease the emotional pain of patients who are being treated for cancer. But can this common anti-depressant help to fight cancer itself? Dr. Dan Peer of the Department of Cell Research and Immunology at Tel Aviv University is proving that it can. A study he and his colleagues recently completed validates that Prozac (chemical name fluoxetine) dramatically enhances the effectiveness of a widely used anti-cancer drug.
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Health care costs are daunting to nearly a fifth of the people who took part in a recent AARP survey.
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