News tagged with emergency doctors

Study: Doctors order tests out of fear of lawsuits

(AP) -- CT scans, MRIs and other pricey imaging tests are often more for the doctor's benefit than the patient's, new research confirms.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Doctors interrupted at work give shorter and poorer care to patients

Hospital doctors who are frequently interrupted while working in a clinical environment spend less time on tasks and fail to return to almost a fifth of their jobs in hand, reveals research published ahead of print in the ...

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created May 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: CT scans rule out heart attacks faster

(AP) -- A new study suggests that a type of "super X-ray" can give a faster, cheaper way to tell whether a chest pain sufferer is really having a heart attack.

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

50 million new patients? More primary docs a must

(AP) -- When Dr. Robert Flaherty launched a private practice in 2001, he soon found himself cramming in as many patients as possible to make ends meet, leaving little time to discuss with them the steps they could take to ...

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created Sep 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Electronic health records are valuable but won't be a panacea

Turns out most Americans are all for moving to a comprehensive system of electronic medical records. They just don't think it's going to save us any money when it comes to health care.

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created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas

(AP) -- Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital ...

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created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Treatment lowers temp, saves patients in cardiac arrest

Nearly 200,000 out-of-hospital incidents of sudden cardiac arrest occur among U.S. residents each year. For every minute care is delayed, survival is decreased.

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created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1