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Study finds virtual doctors visits satisfactory for both patients and clinicians
May 14, 2009 |
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Travelers book plane tickets online, bank customers can check their accounts at any computer, and busy families can grocery shop online. Someday, even doctor visits could be among the conveniences offered via the Internet. ...
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Study shows that primary care doctors miss opportunities to recommend colon cancer screening
Feb 03, 2009 |
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While it is known that patients with few primary care doctor's office visits are less likely to receive colorectal cancer screening, new research indicates that even patients who see their physicians regularly also do not ...
More about sex and relationships needed at gynecological visits
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Visits to a gynaecologist or midwife are generally associated with different tests and/or prescriptions for contraceptives, but could offer so much more. Women, doctors and midwives are agreed that gynaecological visits presents ...
Michigan health plan launches e-Visits
Aug 11, 2006 |
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The Internet is changing medical care for thousands of Detroit area residents who soon will be able to get advice from their family doctors by e-mail.
9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas
Apr 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital ...
Out of hours doctors reluctant to do home visits, say patients
Nov 29, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England have completed research suggesting that patients feel that doctors providing out of hours services in primary care are reluctant to do home visits.
Patient-doctor communication is worse for blacks than for whites, study finds
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Black patients with high blood pressure experience poorer communication with their doctors than white patients do, a study led by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher has found.
More children need medical help for RSV than previously known
Feb 04, 2009 |
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More than 2 million children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) are seen in hospitals, emergency rooms and doctors' offices in the United States every year -- many more than doctors know. In fact, only 3 percent of children ...
US says first swine flu vaccine to arrive Oct. 5
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The first swine flu vaccine should be in some doctors' offices as early as Oct. 5, U.S. health officials said Friday.
Hurried doctor visits may leave patients feeling forgetful
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 25, 2008 |
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Have you ever been whisked through a doctor's visit, and afterward were unable to remember what the doctor said? A University of Rochester Medical Center study disclosed that doctors don't often take the steps necessary to ...
Patients wonder, 'Could this be something serious?'
Dec 04, 2007 |
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Nearly 4,800 patient surveys and 100 covertly recorded visits by actors posing as patients revealed that empathy is lacking in many exam rooms around the Rochester, N.Y., area – however, doctors who do convey empathy are ...
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