One in Twenty Doctors Suffering Psychiatric Distress
A New York report cites the American Medical Association estimating that about one in twenty U S doctors has a psychiatric disturbance severe enough to impair patient care. The AMA notes a shifting stance as leaders discuss screening and rehabilitation rather than concealment.
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American Medical Association
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Physicians Face Rising Impairment Amid Opioids and Stress
AMA warns colleagues, doctors more prone to addiction and mental illness than others as reports of senility and impaired practice surface. At a February conference Dr. Herbert A. Raskin cautions about physicians seeking parental care and factual prowess, with malpractice fears driving drug use. Since 1972, states push sick doctor laws to identify, treat, or revoke licenses, with Florida and Texas early leaders and 27 states now adopting similar measures.
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Preserved marrow may help kill cancer
National Cancer Institute doctors report a major step in reducing chemotherapy bone marrow damage by removing marrow before treatment, freezing it, and reintroducing it later. The technique may permit higher drug doses, lower side effects, and better long term survival, tested since 1974 in 19 children with malignant lymphoma.
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National Cancer Institute
American Society of Clinical Investigation
Marsrow
NCI
Fred R. Appelbaum
John L. Ziegler
Arthur 5. Levine
Albert B. Deisseroth
Growing Pains Myths and Health Q A Amid Old Wives Tales
A reader questions if growing pains are real as pain in limbs during childhood. The adviser argues pain is linked to spinal imbalance rather than true growth pains, urges evaluation by a chiropractor or orthopedic specialist, and promotes early professional care at Spin Ce AS orthopedic office with contact details.
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Colchester Woman Drops Weight On Edman Diet Plan
Rita Randazzo of Colchester shed from 213 to 118 pounds in five and a half months on a diet favoring a main meal, no meetings, no exercise, no hunger. She enjoys chocolate milk shakes and a normal dinner with salad, warns against white bread and sugar, and weighs only every three weeks.
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Mary
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NatarSlim
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