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TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)

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'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented

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Statement on President Carter’s Health

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Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU

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No cure for loneliness

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I’m the nurse who called 911 for help with staffing

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Are hospitals overtreating patients nearing the end?

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Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year

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I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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The lost art of recovery for healing

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Intimate portraits of a hospital Covid unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse

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My career of treating patients has ended

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TX Bans Local Nurses from Quitting to Work FEMA Crisis Contracts in State

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How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)

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How Doctors Die (2013)

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Bertrand Might: Life, legacy and next steps

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In Covid Surge, LA hospitals turn away ambulances and put patients in gift shops

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Why Americans Have Been Deceived About Canada's Health Care System

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Study reveals restoration of retinal and visual function following gene therapy

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How to not fear your death: An Epicurean perspective

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Autism severity can change substantially during early childhood, study suggests

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Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal traffic collisions

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Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the heart attacks and strokes?

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The Amish health care system

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Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight

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Reiki can’t possibly work, so why does it?

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‘Out here, it’s just me’: one doctor for 11,000 square miles

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My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?

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Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook

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Doctor tells patient he doesn't have long to live through video screen

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Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls

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My Wife Was Dying, and We Didn’t Tell Our Children

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Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc Is Female

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US Employee in China Suffers Brain Injury in Case Recalling Cuba Sound 'Attack'

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How the Irish Teach Us to Die

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Japanese 'Prince' Switched at Birth Was Raised a Pauper

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Post-apocalyptic life in American health care

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Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)

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Focus on Infants During Childbirth Leaves U.S. Moms in Danger

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Low-dose suramin temporarily improves symptoms of autism in small-scale study

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Silicon Valley Would Rather Cure Death Than Make Life Worth Living

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How Doctors Die (2011)

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I had a health crisis in France

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Living, in Limbo

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Doctors' Secret Language for Assisted Suicide

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I wrote a small piece on planned death

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David J.C. MacKay, Machine Learning pioneer, dies

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How doctors choose to die (2012)

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Patients do better when cardiologists are away at academic meetings

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Dying in the E.R., and on TV Without His Family’s Consent

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Doctors Tell All, and It’s Bad

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Show HN: Hospice.io – Vagrant configurations generator

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How Doctors Die (2011)

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What happens when you are the doctor on the airplane?

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Look at yourself objectively

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Andrew Warner is out of the hospital

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Ecuador offers WikiLeak's founder Assange residency, no questions asked

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Norwegian 19-year-old crowned world chess champ

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US ex-President Jimmy Carter's wife Rosalynn dies aged 96

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The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy

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The Pen Hospital in Kolkata will nurse your broken fountain pen back

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It's getting harder to die

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Siblings miss crucial life-extending treatment because of CrowdStrike outage

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