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Doctors have long been criticized for turning a blind eye to patients' psychological disorders. Now some groups are forcing the issue.

Rogue Viagra peddlers aside, Internet drugstores will have a place in your medical practice, and not just as amazon.coms for pills. They're one more sign that everything in health care is converging electronically

You may have been sItting on the sidelines while others got rich. Not to worry; the morning after the dot-com orgy, the old investment guidelines still seem sound.

Letters to the Editors

One investment model shows mind-blowing returns. The others range from good to blotto.

One investment model shows mind-blowing returns. The others range from good to blotto.

Letters to the Editors

Defying conventional wisdom, this doctor reluctantly acceded to his family's wishes.

After the author ended their engagement, he made her life hell.

Years ago, these words, and the gentle man who said them, kept the author from abandoning his dream of being a doctor. Now, they would save a patients life, too.

A Good Samaritan act can take many forms. This time a stitch in time saved more than nine.

Successful treatment of an unsuspected illness eased the author's grief over her grandmother's death.

For primary care physicians, being at the mercy of a pager is not only annoying, but accomplishes little, the author asserts.

Skeptical of a professor's hypothesis, the author tested his own by experimenting on himself.

He "may have been the greatest clinical teacher of any day, and any country," says the author, in this review of a new biography.

After misdiagnosis led to a serious operation for her daughter, the author wondered: Should I sue?

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Taking these simple steps can save you plenty of money. Time to get cracking!

Two recent studies look at the growing popularity--and regional variations--of "abstinence only" policies in the public schools.

Decisions about managed care are clear-cut--in theory. Add a trusting patient to the scenario, and they get a lot tougher.

Grateful patients made up for the incredibly crude conditions this ophthalmologist experienced as a volunteer in rural India, where millions are blind for lack of treatment.

The aging boomers remain a powerful economic force. Investing in the industries they support could pay off big in the years ahead.

FRAUD AND ABUSE, REIMBURSEMENT, WRONGFUL DEATH, CAMPAIGN 2000, MANAGED CARE, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, DID YOU KNOW?, HEALTH BENEFITS, ONLINE PRESCRIBING.

The author was very ill. Even so, he thought, this couldn't be worse than the many disasters he'd already survived.

Insurers are beginning to think so, and more of them are paying for it. Are you prepared?

These nurse midwives had a hard time winning physician acceptance. Now they're not only accepted, but sought after.

MEDICARE, GOVERNMENT ACTION, THE UNINSURED, POST MORTEM.

FRAUD AND ABUSE, REIMBURSEMENT, WRONGFUL DEATH, CAMPAIGN 2000, MANAGED CARE, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, DID YOU KNOW?, HEALTH BENEFITS, ONLINE PRESCRIBING.

By forgoing all types of insurance, an FP couple created a patient-centered practice based on the tenets of old-fashioned medicine.

Fanatics who would end experimentation on laboratory animals don't understand that people are more important than rats, says this author.