What to do when you are the doctor, NP or other kind of health care provider and your relative comes to you and asks for a diagnosis, prescription or other kinds of care? Should you treat them or turn them away? Last week, American Medical News grappled with this thorny... (read the rest)
posted April 20, 2009
Many divorces turn acrimonious, but a New York divorce has turned potentially life-threatening. But a new litmus test has emerged for real acrimony: has your soon-to-be ex asked for a donated organ back? Only then do you know you are in a truly deadly divorce! According to Newsday, a... (read the rest)
posted January 7, 2009
When it comes to protecting kids from getting hurt, it turns out that grandmothers know best, according to a recent Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study. As reported in US News and World Report, injuries are cut in half when granny is at the watch as opposed to... (read the rest)
posted November 3, 2008
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