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NYU Prof's Body Rejects Camera That Was Surgically Implanted in His Head
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsPlenty of people react badly to having a camera on them -- perhaps none more so than Wafaa Bilal. The New York University photography professor was forced to remove a computer webcam that had been surgically implanted in his head because his body rejected the foreign object. Doctors removed the camera from Bilal's head today because his body failed to accept one of three titanium posts that had been wedged between his skin and his skull to mount the contraption, The Huffington Post reports. Brad Farwell Talk about having photography on your mind. Wafaa Bilal had a camera ...
Storing Farts in a Jar, Drinking Urine and Other Medical Oddities
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsDoctors aren't always right. In fact, sometimes medical advice given to patients really stinks -- in more ways than one. Consider, for example, a period in medical history back in the 17th century when doctors actually recommended sick patients store their farts in a jar. No joke. The prescription for better health included farting into a jar and sniffing your brand when you were feeling feeble, according to David Haviland, author of the new weird medical trivia book, "Why You Should Store Your Farts in a Jar & Other Oddball or Gross Maladies, Afflictions, Remedies and ...
Docs on the Clock: Would Weekend Shifts Boost Health Care?
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- If Americans are serious about improving health care, they may need to ask for some serious lifestyle changes from their medical providers: Docs might need to sacrifice the standard Saturday-Sunday weekend to boost patient care and save money. It's a controversial idea, but one that Peter Orszag, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, sees as a worthwhile experiment in the ongoing efforts to patch up our country's flailing health care programs. Writing in today's New York Times, Orszag describes the changes being introduced at New York University's Langone Medical Center ...
Study: Foreign-Born Docs Just as Good as Americans
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Aug. 3) -- Foreign-born doctors offer the same quality of medical care as docs trained in the U.S., a new study has concluded. By contrast, Americans who train abroad and then practice here seem to rank last in terms of quality, at least where length of hospital stay and mortality due to cardiac events are concerned. The study, published today in the Health Affairs medical journal, reviewed 244,153 hospitalizations of Pennsylvanian patients suffering from heart attacks or congestive heart disease. Patients were treated by 6,113 doctors, 75 percent of whom were trained in the U.S. and 25 ...
Obama Urges Senate to Prevent Medicare Payment Cuts for Doctors
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama urged Senate Republicans Saturday to go along with legislation preventing a looming 21 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements for doctors. But the president also said he realized that "simply kicking these cuts down the road another year is not a long-term solution to this problem." In his weekly address, Obama said doctors would face cuts of more than one-fifth in Medicare payments this week unless the Senate agrees to defer the lower reimbursement formula, as it has since 2003. The reduced payment schedule, put in place a decade ago, was an attempt to slow the rapid ...
Fewer Hours for Doctors -- and Less Pay
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Feb. 23) -- American doctors are no longer burning the midnight oil, and it might have something to do with their declining salaries, according to a major study of physicians' work hours. The trend could also lead to a major doctor shortage, some fear. The results mark the first significant, documented drop in doctors' weekly hours. The numbers hold true across every demographic: male and female, young and old, and doctors working in the private and public sectors. A team of researchers based out of Dartmouth College collected data from the U.S. Census Current Population Survey (CPS), ...
Chaos Theory - Don't Let the Abysmal Be the Enemy of the Hideous
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Children of War: An Afghan Boy and His Little Sister
By David Wood - Politics DailyBAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- This war's wounded are collected from outposts around Afghanistan by C-130 aeromedical flights. The planes land here with the broken and lacerated bodies of young Americans, lying comatose in casts and bandages among their intravenous tubes and their blood monitors and respirator masks, stacked in racks of litters quietly attended by nurses wearing careworn faces and blue surgical gloves. The wounded are rushed on gurneys into the big American military hospital to have their wounds washed and dressed, and often to undergo more surgery to stabilize them before ...
The Health Care Issues Keep Piling Up: What About Tort Reform?
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyWith all the pushing and shoving going on with health care reform, there's very little attention being paid to tort reform. Malpractice lawsuits always are near the top of any medical provider's tale of woe. It's a shame it's not as controversial, so far, as the many other facets of health care reform. The screamers would REALLY enjoy yelling at some lawyers. ...
Pssst, Orrin Hatch: There Already Are Bureaucrats Between Us and Our Doctors
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyThere are many reasons that so many people admire Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, whatever their political persuasion. One is that he is intellectually honest -- you can't call him a demagogue. Although it was tempting yesterday. It is fair to say that, during a Fox News interview Tuesday, he slipped into some demagoguery when he was so consumed by partisan zeal that he uttered one of those oft-repeated simple-minded comments that so intentionally distort the health care debate. We hear it all the time from those who want to beat back any reform supported by President Obama. You ready? ...
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