The Claim: If Possible, Avoid Hospitals on Weekends
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Many public services are less reliable on weekends. But does that apply to medicine as well?
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Former President Bill Clinton's heart bypass, expected Monday or Tuesday, likely will be an ordinary replumbing of his ailing heart, not some new whiz-bang robotic or "keyhole" surgery, leading surgeons say.    And just as his operation is likely to be the same as the average American's, the delay in his surgery also suggests a problem typical for many patients: doctors and nurses off for the holiday weekend...
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Workload and doctors who don&#39;t have enough time for patients are cited as causes of medical errors. By Lee Bowman / Scripps Howard News Service.
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Hospital A&E departments are flooded with 1m boozers at weekends each year, a study says.
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People who work from mid-afternoon into the wee hours of the night are liable to develop problems such as heartburn, stomach ulcers and constipation, new research shows.
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SATURDAY 3PM: Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United all to win, surely? If it were always so, we wouldnât bother enjoying sport and would garden or go to DIY stores every Saturday afternoon instead.
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Medical school interns routinely work 30-hour shifts, but two new studies say the workload is both dangerous and excessive, and are calling for interns&#39; hours to be cut in half.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: A hospital in Coventry lays bare the deceit of neoliberal logic: staff cuts, ward closures and millions to the financiers.
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Every day, in hospitals all over the country, biology clashes with medicine. Biology demands sleep; medicine dictates long hours without it.
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NEW YORK  - New research suggests that roughly one in four potential stroke patients are directed away from emergency treatment by hospital operators, which is concerning given the well-established link between expeditious treatment of stroke and improved outcomes.
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Malaysia's neurosurgeons,   bartenders and nightclub bouncers all have something in common:   they are all busiest on weekends.
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Severe alcohol and drug abuse by teenagers may be easily missed during routine and urgent-care medical visits, particularly in girls.
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Senior doctors are warning many emergency Caesareans may be unnecessary.
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It's a new way to push for patient safety: Don't pay hospitals when they commit certain errors. Medicare will start hitting hospitals where it hurts in October, and other insurers are hot on the trail.
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A new study on emergency rooms  disputes the common wisdom that the poor and uninsured are  filling them up.
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Experts suggests Ayr and Monklands accident and emergency departments should stay open.
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If you're lucky, you'll spend a lifetime in the D.C. area without ever going to Children's Hospital. It's only a few miles from the Washington Monument, but the tourists strolling the Mall seemed continents away on that spring day when my baby boy was admitted. Three years on, I've come to recogn...