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Should doctors refuse to treat obese patients?

World of DTC Marketing

IN BRIEF: Doctors are not required to treat obese patients who won’t do anything to lose weight but the problem is more than reminding patients they need to get exercise and drop pounds. Susan knew she needed to lose weight, especially when her doctor told her that her A1C indicated that she was prediabetic.

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Mexico to use traditional medicine, more Cuban doctors

Medical Xpress

Health authorities in Mexico said Tuesday they will use more traditional medicine and more Cuban doctors in the country's woefully under-equipped public hospital system.

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Sports medicine must up its game to break cycle of gender bias, urge doctors

Medical Xpress

Sports and exercise medicine must up its game to break the cycle of gender bias in the specialty, urge an international group of doctors in an editorial in the open access journal BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine.

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Even on social media “listen to the doctor”

World of DTC Marketing

He is Chair of UCSF Department of Medicine and has been actively sharing his thoughts on the latest COVID information. The post Even on social media “listen to the doctor” appeared first on World of DTC Marketing.com. Take, for example, Dr. Bob Wachter.

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For ALS patients, doctors, a new medicine reignites concerns about healthcare access

Bio Pharma Dive

Relyvrio, a drug developed by Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, is in high demand in ALS clinics across the U.S. Though some patients are already getting it, insurance coverage and out-of-pocket costs remain a source of anxiety.

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How some doctors discriminate against patients with disabilities

NPR Health - Shots

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with professor of medicine at Harvard Lisa Iezzoni about a new study that finds some doctors don't want patients with disabilities.

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Doctors tend to overestimate gender equality progress in UK medicine, finds survey

Scienmag

Doctors tend to overestimate the progress made towards gender equality in UK medicine, suggest the results of a snapshot survey published in the open access journal BMJ Open.

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