Dr. Ferlic proposed a surgical intervention that reflects precisely the high-tech ethos of contemporary American medicine.
Born and bred in Fribourg, Switzerland, Vasella had experience with medicine all too early.
To compound this misdiagnosis, The Economist proffers medicine that would do more harm than good.
He was a graduate of the School of Medicine at Padua, the best in Europe.
Instead of sweets or money, children begged for quinine, a medicine used to treat malaria.
"This gives us the opportunity to really do patient-specific and individualized medicine, " Hollister said.
There may come a moment when simply a society refuses to take medicine administered from outside.
"We've heard that socialized-medicine bugaboo for 50 years, " said Earl Thayer, a political independent from Madison, Wis.
Kenagy says medicine needs the same type of modularity that drove down costs in the computer industry.
To get a sense of how medicine might be profitably disrupted, look at MedCath, a Charlotte, N.
Medicine needed to be disrupted, Kenagy realized, to deliver the simultaneous goals of higher quality and lower price.
This will mean more of the life-saving equipment, food, water and medicine that will be needed.
Nissen MD, the Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
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They're used in medicine to inject liquids, patch skin and to stimulate acupuncture points.
The 2012 Sports And Exercise Medicine Centre and an Olympic Research Centre would also be included.
But turning this alliance into a new medicine won't be easy, and there is already competition.
We physicians, after all, know a great deal more about medicine than our patients.
Some would say this is absolutely positive medicine but question NHS funding of such cases.
Yet, there are constants in American medicine and this is where competition is best suited.
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And for good reason: once you get a discipline--medicine, business, design, publishing, entertainment, etc.
That can only happen if there is a big advantage for the new medicine.
Only a quarter were fully satisfied with practising medicine, a disturbing statistic for patients.
Many have changed courses from vocations degrees such as medicine or law to English degrees.
Pedophiles cluster in professions that give them access to vulnerable children teaching, the clergy, medicine.
The newly approved psoriasis medicine, Raptiva, will battle it out with Amgen and Biogen Idec drugs.
The medicine worked incredibly well, lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the bad cholesterol, by 70%.
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The Supreme Court decision could set free the dream of personalized medicine or shut it down.
The creation of new organisms for agriculture and medicine could have unforeseen ecological side-effects, he suggests.
But that experience and prior ones leave me skeptical of the defensive way medicine is practiced.
Stephen Smith, who is responsible for the hospitals, is also principal of the faculty of medicine.
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