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Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.

Well, if this were true, we would all be slipping a few 100-dollar bills to our doctors on the way out their doors, too.

If we buy food, we have to pay for it; if a doctor treats us, we know there will be a bill to pay.

A recent study suggests that doctors start to make more objective decisions about who will truly benefit from screening- especially considering the explosion of the elderly that will soon swell our population.

Otis Brawley said, "Many doctors are ordering screening tests purely to cover themselves

Why do doctors recommend routine cancer screening for elderly people?

Why do many doctors prescribe routine screening for cancer

Doctors use tablet computers for their work in hospitals.

Worst of all, when her son, Ned, fell and injured his knee, she refused to pay for a doctor and spent hours looking for free medical help.

See a doctor about her strained shoulder

Few doctors would have thought that there might be an exception to this.

Al Herpin was 90 years old when doctors came to his home in New Jersy

His doctors were puzzled by the strange case of permanent sleeplessness.

What do doctors think of Al Herpin's case

She has not seen a doctor yet.

She has to go to see a doctor.

"When people are sleep-deprived, there are higher levels of stress hormones in their bodies which can decrease immune function," says Doctor Felice, of Northwestern University in Chicago.

I didn't feel any improvement in my condition in the first couple of days, but after a few more regular visits to the doctor, my cough started to lessen.

On one recent day, this doctor was Daniel Nadeau, wandering the cereal aisle with Allison Scott, giving her some ideas on how to feed kids who persistently avoid anything that is healthy.

Several times a month, you can find a doctor in the aisles of Ralph's market in Huntington Beach, California, wearing a white coat and helping people learn about food.

The Chinese doctor took my pulse and asked to see my tongue, both of which were new experiences to me because they are both non-existent in Western medicine.

The study looked at computer-assisted cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and found that it was no more effective in treating depression than the usual care patients receive from a primary care doctor.

Then the doctor gave me a scraping treatment known as "Gua Sha".

This requires open investments to help doctors convert.

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental gains.

One main factor that has driven up medical expenses is that doctors are compensated for the amount of care rather than its effect.

Most agree that the solution is to push doctors to accept fixed payments to care for a particular illness or for a patient's needs over a year.

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in defensive medicine by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.

In time it should help restrain costs by eliminating redundant tests, preventing drug interactions, and helping doctors find the best treatments.

For the most part, these experiments rely on incentive payments to get doctors to try them.

Any doctor who has wrestled with multiple forms from different insurers, or patients who have tried to understand their own parade of statements, know that simplification ought to save money.

Traditionally, guidelines have heavily influenced the practice of medicine, and the latest ones are expected to make doctors more conscious of the economic consequences of their decisions, even though there's no obligation to follow them.

There should be forces in society who should be concerned about the budget, but they shouldn't be functioning simultaneously as doctors, said Dr.

The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

The redefining of doctors' roles.

Some doctors see a potential conflict in trying to be both providers of patient care and financial overseers.

Some analysts say that there's a role for doctors to play in cost analysis because not many others are doing so.

Should doctors consider Medicare's budget in deciding what to use?I think ethically（在道德層面上） we are just worried about the patient in front of us and not trying to save money for the insurance industry or society as a whole, said Dr.Donald Jensen.Still

Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care.

It raises doctors' awareness of their social responsibilities.

It may add to doctors' already heavy workloads.

In practical terms, the new guidelines being develop could result in doctors choosing one drug over another for cost reasons or even deciding that a particular treatment — at the end of life, for example — is too expensive.

He said doctors risked losing the trust of patients if they told patients, I'm not going to do what I think is best for you because 1 think it's bad for the healthcare budget in Massachusetts.

Doctors can face some grim trade-offs.

Conflicts between doctors and patients.

It's possible to admire Oprah Winfrey and still wish Harvard hadn't awarded her an honorary doctor of law degree and the commencement(畢業(yè)典禮)speaker spot at yesterday's graduation.

a parent, relative, friend, or doctor outside the family, had higher self-esteem, higher grades, and lower substance use than peers whose role models were sports figures, singers, or other media characters.

The doctor who first identified it.

The man has to go to see his doctor again

At first, the doctors weren't sure, but she's really improved.

After last week's announcement that Phil Collins might give up touring because live concerts are ruining his voice, doctors are counseling stars about the dos and don'ts of voice care

He has been seeing doctors and counsellors.

She injured her spine in a fall and a doctor told her to lie flat on her back for a month so it can mend.

One of the most interesting experiments with dolphins must be one done by Doctor Jarvis Bastian.

In the second stage, Doctor Bastian separated the dolphins into two tanks

What is the purpose of Doctor Jarvis Bastian's experiment?

Hope has proven a powerful predictor of outcome in every study we've done so far,'said Doctor Charles R. Snyder, a psychologist, who has devised a scale to assess how much hope a person has.

For example, in research with 3920 college students, Doctor Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more accurate predictor of their college grades, than were their SAT scores or their grade point averages in high school, the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance

Students with high hope set themselves higher goals and know how to work to attain them,' Doctor Snyder said.

In devising a way to assess hope scientifically, Doctor Snyder went beyond the simple notion that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right

That notion is not concrete enough and it blurs two key components of hope,' Doctor Snyder said, 'Having hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be.

It was created by Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof, a Polish Jewish doctor specialized in eye diseases.

Many doctors and researchers believe that loneliness harms the immune system, making us more vulnerable to a range of miner and major illnesses.

A person, for example, who is allergic to cats would probably never become an animal doctor.

During the hours spent waiting in vain to see a bone doctor, I decided to take another track and try acupuncture.

If an adverse reaction to a drug is serious, consult your doctor for advice at once.

It follows a specific individual, such as a doctor or nurse, who can use it to record and access patient data.

When taking any drug, you should ask your doctor whether drinking alcohol could be dangerous in combination with the medicine.

As a retired ear doctor, I heartily recommend TV ears to people with normal hearing as well as those with hearing loss.

Children with school problems: a physician's manual is most likely intended for doctors.

Doctors have worked out a chart showing how much stress is involved in various events.

However doctor grand adds, that some people will hesitate, because they don't actually believe they can make it happen, while others will rush into downshifting to discover that their dream ends up with the financial crisis.

If you have any doubts about your health, you'd better consult your doctor at once.

Plus, having the doctor tell us to get two and a half hours of exercise a week doesn't really help our motivation much.

She chose to sell a few larger objects that were less often used when we promised to put the money into her school fund our kindergarten daughter is serious about becoming a doctor.

Smith, you see, the doctor said I had attention problems.

Sorry, doctor white is out of town and I'm not in the position to give out that kind of information.

That's why TV ears has earned the trust and confidence of audiologists聽覺學(xué)家 nationwide as well as world-famous doctors.

The doctor shares his phone number with the patients in case they need medical assistance.

Then one day — January 1, 2007, to be exact — my husband's doctor uttered an unthinkable word : leukemi?

This may help you and your doctor find out the cause and then plan your treatment.

Working with the medical team in Africa has brought out the best in her as a doctor.

You can, Mr.Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four.

Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non- specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

Could a hug a day keep the doctor away?