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Unsettled
It's not that Muhammad Shumri imagined building a new life in Baltimore would be easy. But he didn't expect it to be so hard.
The 48-year-old physician was a high-ranking official in the Iraqi Ministry of Health when a photograph that placed him at a...Tags: Lawyers, Hospitals and Clinics, Unsettled (movie), Society, Saddam Hussein
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Success, setbacks in France
Sun foreign reporterDr. Jean-Pierre Aubert considers himself not only a general practitioner but a dealer of sorts. From his second-floor office up a winding staircase in an apartment building near the Sacre-Coeur Basilica, the doctor prescribes a drug called...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Political Corruption, France, Paris (France), Health Organizations
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'Doc Martin' star Martin Clunes on the making of the British series
Show Tracker"Doc Martin," the globally popular British series about an antisocial big-city surgeon working as a general practitioner among boundary-disrespecting neighbors in a Cornwall fishing village, has just begun its fifth season. Over the last couple of years... -
Breast cancer changes their lives but not their strength and courage
Daily PressLaurie Davis is a photogenic calendar girl for '09 -- but not by choice. A diagnosis of breast cancer on March 4 catapulted her into a special sisterhood called Beyond Boobs!, a local support group for young women diagnosed with breast cancer before...Tags: Harvard University, University of Florida, Mastectomy, Chemotherapy, Chest
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Dr. William Close dies at 84; physician played a key role in stopping the Ebola virus
Dr. William Close, a self-proclaimed country doctor who became the personal physician of Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko and played a key role in halting the 1976 outbreak of the lethal Ebola virus that terrified Zaire and surrounding countries, has...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Greenwich, Mobutu Sese Seko, Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), World War II (1939-1945)
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Study: E.D., Heart Ailments Linked
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor the first time, researchers have shown that erectile dysfunction is a strong predictor of the likelihood that men will die of heart disease. Men who suffer from the problem, which some consider more an emotional than a physical issue, are twice as...Tags: Heart Failure, Hospitals and Clinics, Drugs and Medicines, Heart Disease, Health and Medical Professionals
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Doctors Work To Remove Limbs From Injured In Haiti
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterInside a small stucco pavilion built as a urology clinic -- one of the few buildings in the hospital complex deemed structurally sound -- patient after patient was wheeled into the makeshift operating room on an old bed Saturday. Workers doused the...Tags: Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals, Infants, Television
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Cutting the Cord With Your Doctor
Chicago Tribune Staff WriterNo one keeps track of how many patients issue Donald Trump-like edicts to their doctors -- "You're fired!" -- after a relationship goes sour or something goes wrong. A misdiagnosis from a once-trusted physician can prompt the response, as can a sense...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Health and Medical Professionals, Donald Trump, Ridgewood
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Medicaid abuse is rampant
Staff WriterA small group of Florida doctors are drugging the poor at taxpayer expense. They are exploiting the Medicaid system by prescribing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of dangerous drugs that are feeding a booming black market and adding to a torrent of...Tags: Lawyers, Hospitals and Clinics, Government Health Care, Trials, OxyContin (drug)
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