Michelle Bachelet Jeria, a doctor of medicine, became the first woman president of Chile in 2006.
She is a doctor of osteopathic medicine, a board certified psychiatrist, and a lawyer.
In the traditional model of medicine, a doctor takes samples, has these analysed and uses the results to diagnose the presence of a disease.
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She advises consulting a good travel doctor for a list of recommended vaccines and medications (the International Society of Travel Medicine has a global directory online).
Marc Siegel MD is a Fox News Medical Correspondent, a professor of medicine and medical director of Doctor Radio at NYU Langone Medical Center, and the author of The Inner Pulse.
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Baroness Finlay, a doctor and former president of the Royal Society of Medicine, highlighted the importance of research when treating patients, and asked how the government plans to preserve academic health partnerships in light of its proposals to reform the healthcare system in England.
The lawsuits reflect growing complaints about a new area of medicine: high-volume, doctor-owned spinal surgery centers that market directly to patients on Google Inc.
"It really is very difficult to manage for both doctor and patient, " says Jack Ansell, a professor of medicine at Boston University.
So you'd probably find a 17th century doctor quite at home with the clinical examination side of medicine as it stands today, but of course all the diagnostic tests would be considered as witchcraft.
If you prefer to have your doctor treat the warts, there are several options: Your doctor can apply a medicine, which is sometimes a stronger version of what you can apply at home.
Seger, a medical doctor, is the medical director of Tennessee Poison Center and professor of medicine and emergency medicine at Vanderbilt.
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In another Brazilian case a doctor is suing Ranbaxy because she says its version of Roche's acne medicine Accutane caused her son to have a stroke.
Schering (nyse: SGP - news - people ) is stumbling badly because sales of its allergy drug Claritin have plummeted as the medicine became available without a doctor's prescription.
Yet he would still be practicing medicine today if not for the single-minded persistence of a junior doctor, Andrew Bower, who, unlike virtually everyone else in the university hospital, strongly suspected Colin Bouwer of murder and worked with the police to bring him to justice.
"Medicine has been stolen and the records of the patients destroyed, " a doctor told Amnesty.
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"This is the best glade skiing anywhere east of the Rockies, " says Steven Rowe, a former emergency room doctor who gave up medicine to run the ski patrol at Bohemia in the winter and cut new trails in the summer.
Once, in a lecture, a doctor Church did not know stood up and told him he needed to change the dose of his cholesterol medicine.
Dreyzehner, a medical doctor who practiced both occupational and addiction medicine, ordered all medical centers in the state to report every case of drug-dependent newborns.
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