In addition to potentially contributing to higher health-care costs, industry gift-giving can compromise a doctor's judgment and lead to poor patient care, critics say.
Academic medical centers in particular are under fire to be more transparent because they conduct medical research, train tomorrow's physicians and often are viewed as opinion leaders to whom doctors at community hospitals and elsewhere look for guidance.
Of the Chicago area's Read the rest of this entry »
US Doctors Disillusioned, 60% Wouldn’t Recommend Medical Profession
Almost all doctors in the United States say they’ve spent too much time on paperwork lately, so much so that many of them are forced to spend more time with paperwork than with their patients, according to a report just released by the Physicians Foundation, founded in 2003 as the result of a legal settlement. It’s not the paperwork alone that is contributing Read the rest of this entry »
The Associated Press reports that a study published last week in BMJ (British Medical Journal) indicates that in contradiction to American Medical Association guidelines, about half of doctors in the United States “say they
,” generally without the patients’ knowledge or consent.
Franklin G. Miller, one of the study’s authors and director of the National Institutes of Health’s research ethic program called the results, Read the rest of this entry »
The 12-year-old Teheran boy who has been undergoing treatment since Friday for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) in his brain and spinal cord at Sheba Medical Center's Edmund and Lily Safra Children's Hospital in Tel Hashomer will not benefit from surgery, according to his doctors, but he might improve somewhat from customized and more advanced chemotherapy.
Identified only as "Guy," the boy arrived via Turkey with his father and grandmother after Read the rest of this entry »