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doctors sue HMOs for bad business practices
Citing a regular pattern of deception and breach of contract by health
plans who serve 50 per cent of the state’s insured population, a
New York physicians group filed individual lawsuits against six HMOs requesting
relief from illegal business practices, recently.
Study
shows a drop in charity care in the US
A decline in the number of practicing physicians in the US who provide
charity care, has triggered concerns from some experts about access by
poor patients to basic medical services, a new study reveals.
New
heart device raises risk of fatal blood infection
Patients with pacemakers and other implanted heart devices are at
risk of a life-threatening bacterial blood infection, new study findings
suggest.
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Life
in death
A
recent petition by an elderly healthy citizen in the Kerala High
Court submitting that the State should provide citizens with facilities
for comfortable death in the hospitals for those who voluntarily
seek it, must surely be one of those rare petitions putting the
State and the Judiciary into a dilemma.
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‘Minimu
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Ominous portents
After
the Sunitidevi Singhania Hospital was ransacked last sunday
at Thane in Mumbai, the event cannot but reflect the deteriorating
situation of the current Indian polity on the one hand and
the crass level of protests exposing the intolerant attitude
of people who constitute the mass following of a popular
leader.
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Schiller drafts smart plan to penetrate price sensitive
market
Satish
Bankal, president, Schiller Healthcare India, is determined
to infuse better technology into the Indian market. Recently
Schiller designed a novel finance scheme in a bid to match
the affordability levels of Indian medical community.
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Access Surgery can cut costs, provide faster recuperation’
Dr
Pradeep Kumar Chowbey, a world renowned surgeon in the field
of Minimum Access Surge ry (MAS), has a tag of being associated
with some of the renowned medical associations... |
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