Of those, two-thirds intended to visit a doctor as a result of the ads.
"We need to drive the women into our primary health centers, " says Hafsat, explaining that many pregnant women choose to not visit a doctor due to high costs.
Even if these fitness fans never visit a doctor, the government still pays the full freight and gets stuck with the sicklier majority still covered by the traditional fee-for-service Medicare program.
After a couple of days of continued pain, Conchita decided to visit a neighborhood doctor, a generalist, seeking relief for her increasing discomfort.
Rush Limbaugh's attorney argued Wednesday that investigators violated the conservative shock-jock's privacy rights, in a surprise visit to a doctor's office to seize medical records.
Why is it that you can seamlessly share, send and collect information between your smartphone, tablet computer, and laptop, and yet you have to fill out the same paper forms every time you visit a new doctor.
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And while some are of the view that a yearly visit to the doctor for a routine physical is essential, many of us do no such thing.
The secondary reason is children in under developed countries (where the vaccine is administered for free under humanitarian missions) may not visit the doctor a second time, and vaccination has to be done in a single visit.
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On a recent visit to the doctor, he mentioned that he was a trader.
Who better to decide (before the fact) whether a doctor visit is worth the cost than patients themselves?
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It's a cross between that moment in the Apprentice when the young hopefuls go to face the music with Lord Sugar and a visit to the doctor.
During her visit Mrs Bokova also received a Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the University of Edinburgh.
The FDA approved the elimination of a third visit to the doctor for the nuclear imaging procedure.
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If he required a doctor's visit, one would be arranged for the following morning.
Estimates for the first fifteen lots in the sale are in the hundreds of dollars--what a doctor's visit costs nowadays.
The newspaper then arranged for him to secretly tape the doctor during a visit to Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight.
Think about wearing a device that allows your vital signs to be remotely monitored all the time, rather than at a once-a-year doctor visit.
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During a doctor's visit, Welch discovered that his weight had skyrocketed.
Not long ago, falling sick usually meant a visit to a government facility - often with an interminable wait to see a doctor, a brief examination and a swift exit through the door with a bag of unspecified tablets.
In a 2010 survey conducted by the CDC, more than a third of parents of children aged 6 years and younger said they were concerned about how many vaccines a child receives in the first two years of life, and about how many shots they were given in a single doctor's visit.
Without English they cannot attend parents' evenings at school, visit the doctor unaccompanied or integrate socially in a hundred ways.
Then the California exchange board will vote on whether vision benefits can be offered directly or only as part of a packaged benefit with health plans where you may need a referral from your family doctor to visit your optometrist.
In other words, over 50s can go online later this year, when the government has worked out how the service can be delivered, and those who actually need to see a GP can be identified and encouraged to visit the doctor.
But he didn't travel around the West Bank to see checkpoints like the one in Hawara, south of Nablus, where Palestinians wait, often for hours, in the winter cold, waiting to be allowed by young Israeli soldiers to go to their homes, universities, businesses, doctor's appointment, or to visit a relative or a friend.
Fans will be able to visit the Tardis in 3D in a special 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who later this year.
Germans stay longer in hospital than almost everyone else, have more x-ray and ultra-sound examinations, swallow more medicines, and visit the doctor more often: researchers say that up to a half of consultations are unnecessary.
Syria was, as the doctor said, a friendly and safe place to visit.
Dr. Hardeep Singh, who led the new study at the Houston VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, added that most of the missed diagnoses were traced back to the office visit and the doctor not getting an accurate patient history, doing a full exam or ordering the correct tests.
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