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False Alarms in ER!

Can epidemiology be based on one patient’s experience? Apparently it can, based on a Canadian study of emergency rooms.

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Does the Affordable Care Act help or hurt doctors and their patients?

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Dr. Benjamin Rush was one of five physicians who signed the Declaration of Independence.

“Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.”

~Benjamin Rush, MD