Originally posted: November 3, 2008 Experiencing a medical error: when the doctor is a patient Doctors often describe a sense of shock when they experience the...
What a pity that in the world's largest socialized healthcare system patients have neither power nor choice. All of their options are in the hands of the...
Prosecutor: Doctor tried to hasten patient's death By GREG RISLING – 14 hours ago SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — A transplant surgeon ordered excessive ...
'Distressing' top-ups ban lifted By Nick Triggle Health reporter, BBC News Alan Johnson announces changes over private payment for drugs The bar on topping up...
Opening statements in doctor's organ donation case Associated Press - November 3, 2008 6:04 PM ET SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) - In opening statements today in...
Thursday, Nov 6, 2008 Doctor testifies that Roozrokh was not supposed to be present until after patient's death by Leslie Parrilla Had attending physician...
Cancer patients miss out on therapy By Nick Higham BBC News Ian Lawrence is a physicist. He taught physics; then he taught physics teachers; now he devises...
MindFreedom International -- 7 November 2008 Human Rights Alert: Involuntary Electroshock http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward If it's Wednesday, then...
Friday October 24, 2008 Shock: Oxford Neonatologist Says Time Has Come to Consider “Mandatory Organ Donation” Also suggests that “donor death” criteria...
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uci8-2008nov08,0,1438167.story From the Los Angeles Times Former head of UCI anesthesiology department accused of...
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130013.html First They Came for World of Warcraft... Katherine Mangu-Ward | November 10, 2008, 12:02pm ...and I didn't speak up...
Tuesday, Nov 11, 2008 Posted on Tue, Nov. 11, 2008 Surgeon's attorney aims to show that medication given to prepare Sierra Vista organ harvest operation wasn't...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081110223328.htm Doctors Should Disclose Off-label Prescribing To Their Patients, Experts Argue ScienceDaily (Nov....
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081109193427.htm Vitamins E And C Supplements Not Effective For Prevention Of Cardiovascular Disease In Men ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081111130835.htm Can Cholesterol Drugs Cause Muscle Problems? ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2008) — A Michigan State...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081107143849.htm 'Superbugs' On The Rise In Canadian Hospitals, New Study Shows ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2008) —...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081112113703.htm Mandatory HPV Vaccination Is Unwarranted And Unwise, According to Experts ScienceDaily (Nov. 12,...
MindFreedom International - 12 November 2008 Human Rights Update: Please Forward http://www.mindfreedom.org/shield/pawlenty-electroshock MindFreedom...
This is pointless since effective opioid drugs are mostly off limits to people with chronic pain. Physicians don't want to lose their licenses or end up in...
Posted on Thu, Nov. 13, 2008 Defense challenges credibility of transplant expert who faults Roozrokh on attempt to harvest organs from Sierra Vista transplant ...
Heart test 'cannot predict risk' Heart tests offered to many patients with chest pain are of little value in predicting future heart disease, say researchers. ...
Saturday, Nov 15 2008 Our health service is now worse than Estonia's By Daniel Martin Healthcare in Britain is worse than in Estonia even though we spend four...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/14/state_reopens_review_in_toddlers_death/?page=full State reopens review in toddler's death Children's...
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lane16-2008nov16,0,5678764.story From the Los Angeles Times Opinion Wrangling over psychiatry's bible By...
For thousands of years effective pain medicines have been available, but in the age of drug prohibition they are no longer available a the result is pain and...
This debate offers a good excuse for revisiting Thomas Szasz's excellent essay: Defining Psychiatry Thomas Szasz In the United States today everyone considers...
Sunday, November 16, 2008 - Page updated at 12:00 AM MIKE SIEGEL / THE SEATTLE TIMES How our hospitals unleashed a MRSA epidemic By Michael J. Berens and Ken...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008396215_mrsaday1.html Sunday, November 16, 2008 - Page updated at 02:01 a.m. Culture of Resistance: A...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008399313_mrsaday20.html Culture of Resistance: Seattle Times Special Investigation MRSA's toll climbs, but...