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.
Dr. Marc Siegel is an associate professor of medicine and medical director of Doctor Radio at New York University's Langone Medical Center, and a Fox News medical contributor.
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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Rules range from the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) which can be a major source of confusion on privacy and security issues, to the 1989 Stark Law which regulates doctor referrals, to the Corporate Practice of Medicine laws which prohibit businesses from employing physicians, and forbid doctors from splitting fees with non-doctors.
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The era of paternalistic medicine, where the doctor knew best and the patient felt lucky to have him, has ended.
After seven weeks on this low-tech form of medicine, recommended by his doctor and designed by California health guru Dr. Dean Ornish, Wes Miller started to get better.
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.
Nevertheless, one of the primary motivations for medicine's ethical code is the asymmetry of information that exists between doctor and patient.
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.
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.
"It really is very difficult to manage for both doctor and patient, " says Jack Ansell, a professor of medicine at Boston University.
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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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.
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.
In an attempt to educate every doctor, nurse, and druggist in the United States about the dangers of socialized medicine, they went on the road.
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).
It means that the doctor did three years of dedicated skin disease training at an accredited dermatology residency studying cutaneous medicine, surgery and pathology.
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His next book, The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor, is out in July.
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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With the exception of Hugh Laurie's brilliant but misanthropic fictional doctor, House, going against the norms of the profession is not the route to success in medicine.
"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.
Although the model differs from region to region and doctor to doctor, concierge medicine basically means that patients pay doctors to be their agents, rather than the agents of third-party-payers such as insurance companies or government bureaucracies.
In the Annals of Internal Medicine study, patients were mailed questionnaires and instructed to gather the material before seeing their doctor.
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.
Stephen Cowan is a aggressively self-promoting doctor, who claims on his website that he can treat both autism and ADHD with acupuncture and other forms of Chinese Medicine.
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