Why are doctors pushing back?
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Most children enrolled in Medicaid who get a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder don’t get timely or appropriate treatment afterward. That’s the conclusion of a report published Thursday by a federal watchdog agency, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General
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Moral Distress in NeurosurgeryAugust 15, 2019 |
Is it in the patient’s best interest to go through surgery if the chance of meaningful recovery is vanishingly small?
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The Impact of Racism on Children’s HealthAugust 12, 2019 |
A new statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics looks at the effects of racism on children’s development, starting in the womb
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As Wei Wei Lee sat with her doctor to discuss starting a family, she felt a “distance” between them. The physician was busy on the computer and focused on the screen
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For most of his career, Dr. Stephen Trzeciak was not a big believer in the “touchy-feely” side of medicine. As a specialist in intensive care and chief of medicine at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J., Trzeciak felt most at home in the hard sciences
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A Profusion of Diagnoses. That’s Good and BadNovember 6, 2018 |
With millions of Americans taking risky medications for questionable diagnoses, have we medicalized everyday life?
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Defibrillator paddles did not work during a patient’s heart transplant in January, and a backup set was not nearby. The transplant ultimately failed, and the patient died two months later. His case was featured in a May article
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