Doctors

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Those who have been through the living hell of cancer treatment understand the Hausers' decision to run away
  • Oprah's bad medicine

    Given her influence, it's a shame the TV star offers unbalanced health and medical advice.
  • Swine flu: Don't panic!

    While the virus does reveal some novel traits, so far most symptoms are not out of the ordinary.
  • Gabriel Byrne feels your pain

    The star of "In Treatment" talks about the role of a therapist, the challenge of being a good listener and why everyone needs a good chair.
  • Physician, heal thy system

    President Obama's ambitious healthcare reforms begin with doctors themselves -- if they take the medicine.
  • Judging autism

    Science has failed to convince many people that vaccines do not cause autism. Will last week's court ruling finally change their minds?
  • The fear about peanut allergies is nuts

    Parents and medical groups are doing more harm than good stirring up worries about food allergies.
  • Health for hard times

    A recession is good for our health, argues a current study making the media rounds. It needs a second opinion.
  • Growth hormones for kids

    Normal boys and girls are taking growth hormones for being short. That's a bad prescription.
  • Playing the doctor card

    I was aggravated by the treatment my mother was receiving in the hospital -- until I spoke up.
  • Dr. Feelbad

    Modern medical practice is burning out doctors. That's bad for our health and yours. We need a cure. But first I need a nap.
  • I escaped death -- and now I want to live!

    Should I try to return to life as it was before, or should I set out on adventures?
  • Doctors fighting about money: Now that's rich

    His parents paid for everything and mine did not. So I'm in debt and he isn't. Why are we fighting about this?
  • Why "placebo" is not a dirty word

    Yes, alternative medicine works mostly by the power of suggestion. But so do a lot of conventional treatments.
  • Where have you gone, Marcus Welby?

    Family doctors are a dying breed that is not being revived by medical students. This is the healthcare crisis the candidates should be talking about.
  • My migraines make me feel like driving a pickax through my face!

    I need help dealing with these migraines or I don't know if I'll make it!
  • Sick in the head

    I've diagnosed myself with heart attacks, blood poisoning, meningitis and multiple sclerosis. Turns out, what I had was hypochondria.
  • Hospital, USA

    This fascinating portrait of a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital is about much more than white coats and beeping consoles -- it's 21st-century America in a microcosm.
  • I'm a med student, but my boyfriend has just a high school education

    How important is education in a relationship, and can we be happy if he is less ambitious than I am?
  • Canadian healthcare: Not "universal" for single women

    Some doctors are conscience-clausing their way out of performing basic gynecological screening.
  • A friend is doing chemo. What should I say?

    We're mostly online friends, and I'm kind of shy. I care but do not want to intrude.
  • Should I move back to Wisconsin because my mother has cancer?

    I moved to Colorado but could move back if I had to.
  • Does the sex of your doctor matter?

    A new study finds that breast cancer patients treated by female surgeons were more likely to receive post-op radiation.
  • Don't be happy, worry

    Awash in antidepressants, America is manipulated by Big Pharma and numbed out to basic, and inevitable, human pain -- or so argue critics of our serotonin nation.
  • The abortion doctor

    Susan Wicklund has received death threats and worn a bulletproof vest to work. But what really scares her, she writes in "This Common Secret," is the war on reproductive rights.
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