The CBC
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A physician, who routinely treats cancer patients, describes his experiences when he comes to know that his daughter is affected by leukemia. The period of his daughter's treatment and the anxiety he went through has led him to believe that recognizing and honoring the different connections a doctor feels with his patient is part of both being healers and healing own wounds.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2006
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Groups push physicians and patients to embrace electronic health records
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The benefits behind implementing electronic health records like reducing costs, cutting down on medical errors, promote standardization despite privacy concerns are discussed.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2008
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The early accounts of epidemic poliomyelitis
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The disease poliomyelitis as diagnosed and recognized in 1868 by A.C. Bull is presented. The possibility of it taking the form of an epidemic is discussed.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2008
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