This is even true in egalitarian Sweden, where in addition to paying for the health service through their taxes, people pay small fees to see a doctor or nurse, and small daily charges for hospital stays.
"Being a small-town doctor in Tennessee, TB is not really on your radar screen, " Dr. Griffey said.
Here a dentist, doctor or small-business owner signs an employment contract with a foreign (usually Irish) employee-leasing company, which then leases his services to a U.S. leasing company, which in turn leases his services back to his business or practice.
See a doctor even for small issues to avoid bigger, costly problems down the line.
The group still gets referrals from small, one and two-doctor practices, she said.
Doctor Who left the small screen in 1989 after the BBC took the decision to cancel the series, but a huge fanbase still remains.
Drastic reductions in doctor pay result in small reductions in cost.
Hospitalized in a small clinic run by a kindly doctor and his too-friendly wife, Jan struggles to rebuild his life while coming to terms with its various (and inevitable) disappointments.
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Check for signs of a small number of cancers and tell your doctor if you feel depressed.
Before that, we stopped and talked with a doctor in front of a small traditional Chinese hospital close to the People's Square.
The electrodes send information, via a small metal box that rests in the doctor's pocket, to a remote computer which stores and processes the data.
Desperate, the doctor in Nick's small town wanted to use a more powerful antibiotic that might save him -- but also might make Nick deaf.
"We saw a lot of fluids around the muscle, and the doctor said it had a small rupture in it, " Sam Verslegars, Clijsters' physio, told the Fed Cup's official Web site.
The protagonist, Michael, is also a doctor, who has joined a small practice in North Carolina after his divorce.
He was evacuated from an 8, 000-foot observatory and taken in an old rickety ambulance to a small, dimly lit clinic, where a doctor examined him and said he would require life-saving surgery.
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.
The doctor told CNN that Li had a checkup in a small hospital in his hometown three weeks before his death but that no health problems had been found.
The difference is so small as to be unimportant, says John Kastelein, the University of the Netherlands doctor who led the trial.
And nor is he against everything Western: he is a fan of Sherlock Holmes (a character created by another former doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle) and his talent for making deductions from small observations.
Now growing evidence suggests that a small percentage of patients--perhaps 4, 000 people a year, by one doctor's estimate--may be dying because of Advair or its Serevent component.
One of the doctors used by US Postal, Michele Ferrari - nicknamed Doctor Death by reporters - found ways of helping to reduce the EPO glowtime by using small "microdoses" injected directly into the vein, Hamilton says.
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Clinton would wear the small, undetectable hearing aids in each ear only on certain occasions, such as in crowds, his doctor said.
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