Critical Care Without Consent
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The federal government is undertaking the most ambitious set of studies ever mounted under a controversial arrangement that allows researchers to conduct some kinds of medical experiments without first getting patients' permission.
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Your next doctor could be keeping an eye on you from afar - via a camera and a bank of computer screens. An expanding number of hospitals are adopting technology that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much as an air traffic controller keeps track of several planes.
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There's an open secret in medicine: Patients lie.
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Imagine you&#39;re lying unconscious on the operating table and before the surgery is over, you wake up. But the doctors and nurses can&#39;t tell you&#39;re awake because you still can&#39;t speak or move a muscle.
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Medical care was at times so scarce and shabby that it became another kind of abuse. An inside look
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Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh can&#39;t say yet whether a private clinic in Montreal for medical emergencies would violate the Canada Health Act, but critics say the violation is obvious.
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Â· Catholic leader demands NHS block on terminationsÂ· Communion challenge to pro-choice politicians
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Should an AIDS patient&#39;s unit and his closely-related ones be informed of his disease if he is confirmed? How do we protect patient&#39;s right of privacy?
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BY LAW, hospitals provide free emergency care for illegal immigrants. But the costs are bruising, and pending federal regulations could scare away patients.
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Troublingly little is known about the possibility of getting a viral infection like hepatitis B, hepatitis C or H.I.V. from a health care worker.
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Tycho:  He came into work yesterday with a prescription for something that will alter his brain chemistry, which I thought was a big step for the man who refuses to take aspirin.  We've long canonized our respective lunacies, believing it is like some artistic sacrament that makes our bizarre endeavor possible.  We have relied upon them.  Or, at any rate, we did.
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The case of a medical student requesting extra breaks on lengthy tests so she can pump breast milk is a harbinger of what could become a growing problem.
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Substandard care at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital may have contributed to 19 deaths over the past two years
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The ultimate solution to our health care dilemma is for each of us to take control ourselves.
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Proposals to limit the use of tissues taken from living patients have been overthrown.
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Advances in genetic testing are placing strains on the principle of doctor-patient confidentiality, as doctors grapple with whether to tell a patient's relatives when the patient has an inherited disease or mutation that could afflict other members of the family.    In an article in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, doctors and legal experts argued against imposing a mandatory "duty to warn" nonpatients...
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Not So Fast Don't assume your spouse wants you to make medical decisions he or she can't make. When asked to select a health care proxy -- someone designated to make medical decisions for a person who is incapacitated -- one-third of married respondents chose someone other than their spouse,...