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ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS in a recent New York Times article describes outrageous behavior by the clinical director and medical director of Harlem medical center. Under the direction of these former hospital officers (they have since been fired and demoted, respectively) the cardiology department of the Medical Center permitted 4,000 echocardiograms performed on patients suffering from suspected [...]
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Online Journal watch is a publication which surveys medical newly published medical literature and comments on various relevant medical issues. One of the January’s postings reported upon a study of patients being evaluated by cardiac CT scan. The study addressed, among other things, the value of utilizing information made available by reason of the study [...]
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The Archives of Internal Medicine, June 22, 2009, published results of a retrospective medical record review involving nineteen community based and four academic medical center primary care practices. The researchers were intent upon examining how frequently patients were not informed of clinically significant abnormal outpatient test results. The researcher’s conclusion was that it is common [...]
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Each year many die of multiple myeloma. It is a cancer principally affecting bone but capable of metastasizing to the lung and soft tissue. A man or woman in their 40’s or 50’s suddenly suffering a fracture of some spinal element without any precedent trauma that they can recall is certainly a possible victim of [...]
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