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Doctors have long been criticized for turning a blind eye to patients' psychological disorders. Now some groups are forcing the issue.

Rogue Viagra peddlers aside, Internet drugstores will have a place in your medical practice, and not just as amazon.coms for pills. They're one more sign that everything in health care is converging electronically

Defying conventional wisdom, this doctor reluctantly acceded to his family's wishes.

Successful treatment of an unsuspected illness eased the author's grief over her grandmother's death.

For primary care physicians, being at the mercy of a pager is not only annoying, but accomplishes little, the author asserts.

Skeptical of a professor's hypothesis, the author tested his own by experimenting on himself.

He "may have been the greatest clinical teacher of any day, and any country," says the author, in this review of a new biography.

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Grateful patients made up for the incredibly crude conditions this ophthalmologist experienced as a volunteer in rural India, where millions are blind for lack of treatment.

These nurse midwives had a hard time winning physician acceptance. Now they're not only accepted, but sought after.

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Slamming phones and confronting colleagues didn't work, so this doctor tried new approaches.

The author refused to settle after another doctor dragged him into a case. And now he can't wipe the slate clean.

The author's abduction by a drug addict was terrifying enough. But his glimpse of the justice system was scary, too.

Collective bargaining, lawsuits against HMOs, Tort Reform, health coverage, managed care, clinical guidelines, alternative medicine, looking aheadNovember.

Once skeptical about inpatient specialists, this doctor has come to love what they do for him. Mostly, they give him time.

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That's the belief of dermatologist Andrew Hendricks, who blew the whistle on a giant lab. After several tense years, his lawsuit reaped $182 million for the Feds.

Founded on a dream in the 1930's, the Burns Clinic collapsed in a nightmare of the '90s, as the cozy collegiality of its physicians gave way to managed care anxiety and a me first attitude.

Practice Beat

This pediatrician's winwin partnership with his state bureaucracy gives indigent children a medical homeand the practice a profit.

Ed MemoOn the notion that doctors are not God

A "my patient comes first" attitude may deny care to patients who need it more, these experts say.