145 articles on "doctor"

How Pain Serves as Your Body's Warning Signal

How Pain Serves as Your Body's Warning Signal by: Vicki Rackner, MD Pain is like the warning lights on your car's dashboard. It alerts you to something that needs investigation. Pain serves an important function. It's your body&ap...

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Questions to ask your doctor if you suffer from back pain.

Questions to ask your doctor (and why)Q...What's causing my pain and why can't I have any further treatment...Because chronic long term pain isn't normal there is nearly always a reason for it. Until the reason is clearly identified, h...

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Doctor Background Check

Doctor Background Check by: Hugo Gallegos Why check a doctor’s background? We all want the best possible surgeon or physician when it comes to our healthcare. We know all physicians and surgeons do not have the same training and experience, es...

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Prostate Cancer Medical Malpractice Case Results In Settlement For $550,000

Most people believe that the one issue associated with a medical malpractice claim, including one of a delayed cancer diagnosis, is if the doctor made a mistake. Lawyers, though, realize that there is far more to a malpractice claim than simply if th...

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Physician Settles Matter Where Woman Died of Colon Cancer When Doctor Relied On Unfinished Colonoscopy

Particular people are at risk of having or developing some forms of cancer. With colon cancer, for example, those with particular conditions (such as chron's disease), with particular symptoms , or with family members who have had colon cancer (...

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Why Drug Companies are Naughty and 5 Remedies to Cure the Symptoms

Why Drug Companies are Naughty and 5 Remedies to Cure the Symptoms by: Laura Turner With the hum of the election campaign and the debate of “big business,” versus human interest, I decided to do a bit of muckraking into the art and science o...

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Medical Collections True Tale: A Dental Debt Deadbeat

Medical Collections True Tale: A Dental Debt Deadbeat by: Joel Walsh Medical collections are costing doctors millions. Here are the secrets of why patients don’t always pay their bills, from a real-life deadbeat. With medical collections costi...

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High Blood Pressure and Ways to Reduce It

High Blood Pressure and Ways to Reduce It  by: Beverley Brooke High blood pressure mainly effects the older generation. It is measured by 2 measurements, the first being the systolic blood pressure and the second being the diastolic blood pressu...

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Relief From Back Pain

Relief From Back Pain by: Tony Moore Introduction Having any sort of back pain can absolutely take over your life. Everything you do is governed by the pain. The purpose of this article is to describe the main symptoms, causes and back pain rem...

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Patient Dies Of Advanced Prostate Cancer Despite Physicians Having Knowledge Of Symptoms And Abnormal Test Results

Coordinating the care of a patient could actually make the difference between life and death. The involvement of multiple doctors in the treatment of a patient means that some physicians could have important information that ought to be relayed to th...

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