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Updated: 32 weeks 3 days ago
Organized medicine pushes back on expansions of scope of practice
Physicians ask legislatures to establish scope-of-practice review committees. They say court cases in Texas and Iowa highlight the need to preserve patient safety.
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Liability by locality: Practical standard or outdated notion?
Some say an old rule for deciding negligence by local, versus national, care standards protects rural medicine. Others say it invites risks.
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Physician-assisted suicide legal in Montana, court rules
The state supreme court declined to rule on constitutional grounds but said state law does not forbid doctor-aided death.
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Darwin's lifelong illness gets a diagnosis
A chronic condition more frequently seen in children plagued the "father of evolution" during much of his life, according to a new study.
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Individual target A1c levels especially helpful in seniors
Geriatric Consult - A column about treating a growing demographic
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