Health care in America is suffering a total nervous breakdown, but it isn’t just because doctors are striking and maternity wards are closing.
Yes, It’s a Mess–But Here’s How to Fix It
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How to Heal a Hypochondriac
It happens to every medical student sooner or later.
Medical Meditation: Say Om Before Surgery
In my work as a cardiovascular surgeon, I use the most sophisticated tools of modern medicine to separate patients from their diseased hearts and replace these organs with healthy ones. While my training was in the science of the Western world, I also rely heavily on an ancient Eastern technique–meditation–to help my patients prepare for surgery and to steer them gently toward recovery.
Why Doctors’ Drug-Prescribing Info Should Be Kept Private
An e-mail has been making the rounds among some of my physician colleagues.
School Head-Lice Policies Must Be Relaxed, Say Doctors
They are miniscule, measuring at most 2 mm to 3 mm long, yet few things induce more panic or fear among parents than head lice. But while an infestation of head lice on a child can be uncomfortable, the critters do not pose enough of a contagious hazard to justify the strict policies that many schools use to keep infected children out of class, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics
Health: Why I Would Vote No On Pot
Maybe it’s because I was born a couple of months after Woodstock and wasn’t around when marijuana was as common as iPods are today, but I’m constantly amazed that after all these years–and all the wars on drugs and all the public-service announcements–nearly 15 million Americans still use marijuana at least once a month. California and 10 other states have already decriminalized marijuana for medical use
Faith-Based Insurance: Christian Health Care Sharing
Correction Appended: May 29, 2010 Three years ago, James Lansberry faced the kind of health care crisis that has become all too common in the U.S.
Bisexuality What Is It?
Happily married for 10 years, Richard Sharrard, a dance instructor, and Tina Tessina, a psychotherapist and writer, blend in nicely enough with their neighbors in the middle-class community of Long Beach, Calif. But the couple’s life-style is far from ordinary: Sharrard and Tessina are openly and unapologetically bisexual
India’s Black Market Organ Scandal
Shocked but not surprised.
Medicine: The Ethics of Abortion
Is it legally permissible and medically ethical to abort a woman for “psychiatric reasons”?