Adirondack Life

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Dr. Julie Perlanski is a lifesaver. Not mine, but someone close to me. Earlier this year, right before the coronavirus pandemic shut down New York State, this 62-year-old physician relocated from the Mohawk Valley to Old Forge in the Town of Webb. Sh

Simply Woman & Home

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Do your research 'The regulations around tweakments in the UK are so loose that anyone can set themselves up in practice, and there is no compulsory register to which aesthetic medical practitioners have to belong.' What should you look for? 'Someone

STAT

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A New Hampshire doctor fighting to regain her license has become a symbol of a kind of physician autonomy that is almost extinct.

Oxygen

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By Jill Schildhouse it’s true what they say: Doctors make the worst patients. “Nothing is quite as [frightening] as realizing that you have sat on a possible breast cancer lesion for five months, making excuses about being too busy to take care of yo

Los Angeles Times

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In the future, when robots are our doctors and we find ourselves describing our symptoms to an online portal, we'll miss the foibles of the physicians who once cared for us. But until then, we can still laugh at the very funny things that our very hu

Oxygen

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it’s true what they say: Doctors make the worst patients. “Nothing is quite as [frightening] as realizing that you have sat on a possible breast cancer lesion for five months, making excuses about being too busy to take care of yourself,” says Dr. We

Longevity Magazine

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D Only a few are gifted genetically with amazing skin; the rest of us have to put in the time and effort to reap the rewards. Luckily, with the rate at which medical science is developing, healthy, glowing and vibrant skin is now an option for everyo

Good Health

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When you’re burnt out, struggling to juggle work and family, and feeling like no matter how hard you try, you just can’t seem to do a good enough job at anything, what’s the solution? Put on your best ’80s-themed get-up – mullet wig included – and ta

The Atlantic

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The annals of literature are packed with writers who also practiced medicine: Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Carlos Williams, John Keats, William Somerset Maugham, and on and on. As doctors, they saw patients at their most vulnerable, and

Scoop

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Can you tell us about your work? I am an emergency medicine doctor at a busy hospital in East London. It’s my ten-year anniversary this year and I absolutely love my job. From suturing wounds shut and talking to young people about their mental healt

Chat It's Fate

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Ever dreamt of you’re in blue scrubs, about to perform an operation you don’t know how to do? Maybe you’ve dreamed of being in hospital - or having to take strange medicine? All these medical things and more come with extra hidden meanings in the wor

STAT

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Finding ways to give employed doctors more positive feedback can improve their work and combat the epidemic of physician burnout.

New Zealand Listener

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WILL NEW ZEALAND have enough clinicians to help people who meet the criteria for assisted dying? The numbers so far show many are preferring to wait and see how things pan out. In February this year, just under 2000 health practitioners responded to

STAT

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The 243 athletes on Team USA have worked hard to get to the Winter Olympics. So has their medical team.

India Today

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Sheetal Ranganathan, Global Vice President of Life Sciences and Healthcare Operations, Evalueserve Medicine has been and continues to be one of the most prestigious professions in the world. The thrill of constant learning combined with the contentme

Literary Hub

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There is a woodcut you have probably seen, done in a late-Medieval style, depicting a young man sticking his head through the starry sphere and gazing, amazed, at the machinery of the Universe. This is how I feel when I read history. Like the shepher

Futurity

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A new device could help doctors with disabilities overcome the challenges of performing standard patient examinations. Instead of using a traditional stethoscope or otoscope to examine a patient, Molly Fausone, a physician-in-training at the Universi

Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

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When you’re burnt out, struggling to juggle work and family, and feeling like no matter how hard you try, you just can’t seem to do a good enough job of anything, what’s the solution? Put on your best ’80s-themed get-up – mullet wig included – and ta

NPR

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Young African American doctors say they hope to change the lack of access to medicine in underserved communities. But many say the system that trains them also alienates them.

Literary Hub

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In this roundtable, four doctor-writers—Gavin Francis (Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body), Sandeep Jauhar (Heart: A History), Paul Seward (Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room), and Jamie Weisman (We Are Gathered)

India Today

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With elections to the Karnataka assembly less than six months away, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is directing his attention to the serious business of voter appeasement. One overambitious bid, though, to rein in the private healthcare industry, is beg

Mornings with Jesus

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ON A FORUM FOR PEOPLE with chronic illness, a patient mentioned how a specific type of doctor utilized a technique that had brought her relief. Since I hadn’t tried any new approaches for a while and wanted to improve my own condition, I decided to l

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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If you are frustrated by wait times to see your doctor, the cost of health insurance and prescription drugs, just wait until there may be no doctor to see. NBC News recently broadcast a story about how fewer young people are entering the medical prof

India Today

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West Bengal, already struggling with an abysmal doctor-patient ratio (1:1,850), now faces a new threat that could well derail health services in the state: mass resignations by government physicians. As many as 85 doctors have quit in the past few mo

STAT

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In all the ways I want to improve in 2018 — be it being more mindful, or speaking up for myself, there are a lot of ways medicine can change…

Cowboys & Indians

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On average, patients spend fifteen to thirty minutes with their doctor, whether they suffer from a sprained ankle or a life-threatening disease. No matter the severity of the situation, doctors only have enough time to ask a handful of questions and

Men's Health

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NO MATTER WHAT you need in the next minute or ten—sheets, coffee, razor blades—there’s a sleek-looking start-up promising to have the best product, the easiest ordering process, and the smoothest delivery. But should you really be clicking on all tho

Post South Africa

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A PIETERMARITZBURG doctor was fined R15 000 by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) after he pleaded guilty to hiring an unregistered foreign doctor. Last week, Navind Dayanand, of the Daymed Private Hospital, appeared before the he

Longevity Magazine

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The Aesthetic and Anti-aging Medicine Society of South Africa (AAMSSA) is committed to the practice and regulation of aesthetic and anti-aging medicine in South Africa. The ultimate goal of the society is to uphold the rights of patients. Many South

New Idea

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many alterations to the way we live our lives, but one thing that shouldn’t change is visits to the doctor. It’s crucial to ensure we stay safe without putting our health on hold, with the following important r