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| Estimate: 50,000 FL kids homeless Posted: 4/13/2009 © Sun-Sentinel A national center says children in homeless families worry and get sick more often than other kids and are at greater risk of dropping out of school. Meanwhile, the St. Petersburg Times reports, emergency doctors say uninsured children are coming in with illnesses that should have been treated sooner. |
| Primary care: low pay, long hours Posted: 4/13/2009 © Naples Daily News Why aren't there enough primary care doctors? They earn about half as much as specialists a year, because the reimbursement system devised by Medicare assumes that what they do is less complex than specialists' care. |
| Doc speeds up lab reports on Internet Posted: 4/12/2009 © Palm Beach Post Mark Widick, an ear, nose and throat doctor in Boca Raton, has developed a Web-based business that offers doctors and patients a much quicker answer on their throat cultures than the standard lab report. Curtailing overprescribing of antibiotics would help everyone, he notes. |
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