When Gongaware was managing Jackson's 1993 tour, he warned the tour doctor "Don't be a Dr. Nick" -- a reference to Presley's last physician -- the doctor testified in a deposition.
Andrew Schechtman, a family physician in a 12-doctor practice in San Jose, Calif.
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When healthcare search firm Merritt Hawkins helped hospitals look for doctors just a few years ago, about one in four clients were looking for a solo practicing physician, often a primary care doctor who would open up shop in a small community.
Essentially, that means nobody wants a solo practicing doctor and nobody in the physician workforce wants to be one, Merritt Hawkins said.
Remember that nothing can substitute for the advice you get from your own physician so be sure to partner with your doctor to create a personalized game plan for healthy living.
Lawmakers also passed another measure that requires a doctor who performs abortions to be a physician with hospital-admitting privileges.
Opponents of physician-owned specialty hospitals accuse Russell and other doctor-investors of taking the most profitable parts of a hospital and stripping them away from the big general facilities.
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He also signed into law measures that would makes North Dakota the first state to ban abortions based on genetic defects such as Down syndrome and require a doctor who performs abortions to be a physician with hospital-admitting privileges.
If the patient tries to follow up with the physician they were referred to, they are basically told the doctor will not see them unless the patient pays up front.
That's what a breast-feeding doctor -- an OB, pediatrician or family physician with a subspecialty in breast-feeding medicine -- would have done in Kelly's case: a complete physical and medical history (yes, in fact, it is relevant if your mother couldn't make milk) on mom and baby to see if any physical or anatomical factors were affecting supply.
RP-VITA allows remote doctor-to-patient consults, ensuring that the physician is in the right place at the right time and has access to the necessary clinical information to take immediate action.
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After the physician-patient dialogue is completed, the patient may simply thank the doctor for the advice and take no steps whatsoever to deal with the issue.
That means the doctor will oversee a team of less- highly paid nurses, physician assistants and orderlies who will perform many basic tasks.
When your physician gives you a prescription, it is not a matter of asking the doctor to prescribe a cheaper drug that may not work quite as well as the more expensive variety.
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If you see no benefit, there are in general two paths your doctor might recommend (and I say doctor in the generic sense, given that many folks nowadays see physician assistants or nurse practitioners who often -- in my experience -- do a better job diagnosing and treating depression than do MDs).
The 700-doctor Muir Medical Group Independent Practice Association, a partner of John Muir Health physician network in Walnut Creek, Calif.
According to reporters and photographers who followed the unit into the room and Wilper's own account given to the AP three years ago, Tojo's house staff and a Japanese doctor were reluctant to help the wounded man until Wilpers pointed his gun at the physician and ordered him to start treatment.
Indeed, the unsleeping doctor would have had to go all the way back to Galen, the ancient Roman physician whose teachings had dominated medicine until Galileo had challenged him a century before.
To make matters worse, Fisher found that patients in high-cost areas were actually less likely to receive low-cost preventive services, such as flu and pneumonia vaccines, faced longer waits at doctor and emergency-room visits, and were less likely to have a primary-care physician.
So if you have a physician who makes you wait for long periods every time he sees you, then I encourage you to find another doctor who values your time.
Just before the Express tour, a prominent Florida physician and tea-party activist named David McKalip forwarded a doctored image of Mr.Obama as a tribal witch doctor with a bone through his nose to a Google listserve associated with the movement.
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