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Study: Medical automation market to grow dramatically over the next five years
Technologies for running diagnostic or therapeutic processes that free up humans from doing tasks--such as health monitoring kiosks, automated X-rays and surgical robots--are becoming an extremely... Read more...
Despite economy, medical schools expanding rapidly
Despite the sick economy, the medical school business is quite healthy, thank you very much. With doctor shortages barreling down on U.S. communities and the population graying, there's plenty of... Read more...
CA investigating Kaiser call centers
The state of California is investigating Kaiser Permanente's three call centers, responding to concerns that the health plan may be letting unlicensed staffers effectively make medical decisions by... Read more...
Narrative medicine may give us better, more empathic doctors
With evidence growing that exposure to literature and writing during medical training can humanize the teaching process, medical programs are incorporating short stories, poems, and essays into their... Read more...
