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BBC Video: Simulators 'make surgeons better'
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Government plans investigation of devicemaker kickbacks to surgeons
Federal health officials and prosecutors are mounting an investigation designed to identify doctors how accept kickbacks from drug and devicemakers for using their products. The investigation focuses... Read more...
Should doctors send patients to another hospital?
We know from numerous studies that surgeries, especially very specialized ones, can have dramatically different outcomes depending on where they are performed. So, do doctors have an ethical... Read more...
Study: Specialists seldom show empathy
In medicine, there's certainly one school of thought that holds that a doctor's job is to be detached and impartial, not break down with patients when he or she has to give them bad news or hold... Read more...
