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Doctors usually empathetic in pediatric ICU care conferences

(HealthDay)—Physicians frequently respond with empathy during pediatric intensive care unit care conferences, though their responses are often buried within other data or missed, according to a study published online July 6 in JAMA Network Open. Tessie W. October, M.D., M.P.H., from the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and colleagues conducted a […]

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Doctors urge caps on patient appointments

Doctors want a similar healthcare system to Sweden with just 13 appointments a day amid claims some GPs carry out up to 70 consultations on busy days GPs’ union calls for a cap on consultations so doctors can turn patients away  They say the safety of patients and ‘sanity’ of doctors is being put at […]