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Letters: Doctors and nurses -- who will take care of us?
Re "Can't a nurse do that?," Editorial, April 21 To combat the impending physician shortage all across California, and the crisis already facing rural areas, state law absolutely must change to allow greater independence for non-physician medical...Tags: Nursing, Internists, Health and Medical Professionals, General Practitioners, Internal Medicine
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Allan Arbus dies at 95; played psychiatrist on 'MASH'
As the wise, dryly humorous psychiatrist caring for shellshocked surgeons and troops in the hit television series "MASH," actor Allan Arbus was so convincing that at least one colleague assumed he had expertise in the medical specialty. In 1973, the...
Tags: Alan Alda, Television Industry, Heart Failure, Korean War (1950-1953), Psychiatrists
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How long it takes to get insurance OK to admit psychiatric patients
Psychiatrists spent an estimated 1 million hours on the phone getting insurance authorizations to admit people to hospitals – time the lead author of a study on the matter says could be better spent helping patients. And perhaps time the...
Tags: Boston, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Science and Technology, Psychiatry
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Army sergeant pleads guilty, describes killing 5 fellow servicemen
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — U.S. Army Sgt. John Russell pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of five fellow service members and the attempted murder of another in Iraq in 2009 after the government agreed not to...
Tags: Iraq, Hospitals and Clinics, Murder, Psychiatrists, Shootings
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As Navy rape case unravels, questions of homicide appear
The night began like many at Boorda Hall, a five-story barracks at Naval Station Great Lakes, the Navy's premier training base on the shore of Lake Michigan in Illinois. Somebody announced a party, and the hard drinking and beer pong began. A 21-year-...
Tags: Long Island, NCIS (tv program), Assault, Prisons, Suicide
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Errors cited in Lap-Band operation
A surgeon cut an Orange County woman's aorta during Lap-Band weight-loss surgery in 2011 and an anesthesiologist failed to detect her hemorrhaging, events that led to her death, according to a Los Angeles County Coroner's autopsy report. The report...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Heart Disease, Laws, Hospitals and Clinics, Food and Drug Administration
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What California should learn from the 1-800-GET-THIN saga
Today, 19 months after her death, we may finally have a good idea of what killed Paula Rojeski. According to a lawsuit and public autopsy records, the causes included her doing business with the 1-800-GET-THIN folks and the slicing of her aorta during...
Tags: Allergan Inc., Hospitals and Clinics, Laws, Food and Drug Administration, Religion and Belief
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Texas explosion: Two families, two frantic searches for relatives
Moments after a flaming fertilizer plant exploded in the town of West, Texas, two women immediately leaped behind the wheels of their cars. Alicia McCowan, 24, had just completed a shift at the local Sonic drive-in Wednesday night when the blast struck....
Tags: Nursing, Chemical Industry, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Fertilizer, Sports
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FBI seeks public's help identifying Boston suspects
BOSTON — The FBI appealed for the public's help Thursday in identifying two men wearing baseball caps and backpacks, one of whom was seen placing a backpack at the site of the second Boston Marathon bombing. As President Obama traveled to the...
Tags: Police Investigations, John Kerry, Hospitals and Clinics, Yankee Stadium, Nursing
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Fertilizer plant explodes near Waco, Texas, injuring dozens
A large explosion rocked a small community near Waco, Texas, Wednesday night, triggering a raging fire and dozens of injuries. The Waco Tribune reported that several firefighters were hurt after a fertilizer plant exploded in the town of West, Texas....
Tags: Long Term Care, Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, Chemical Industry, Emergency Incidents
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Mapping of zebra fish DNA expected to benefit humans
Scientists have moved one step closer to understanding how genes drive human biology and disease — and they've done it by mapping the DNA of a tiny, decidedly non-human creature known as the zebra fish. In a study published Wednesday by the...
Tags: Science and Technology, Biology, Chemical Industry, Science, Biotechnology Industry
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School denies it barred Holmes because of threat
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The University of Colorado-Denver stood firm Friday in saying it never barred James E. Holmes from campus, despite newly released court documents that indicate the suspect in the Aurora movie massacre had his student ID card...
Tags: Firearms, Murder, Psychiatrists, Court Preliminary, Students
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