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Three in five inpatients are extremely satisfied with their hospital care. And two of three patients would definitely recommend their hospital to friends and family, according to new survey data released last month by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

The patient satisfaction data also show that eight in 10 patients said their physicians always explained things clearly, listened carefully and treated them with courtesy and respect.

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Less than two months ago, American Medical Association President Ron Davis, MD, told the AMA Board of Trustees that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Davis, 51, is continuing to serve as president. But he has reduced his duties to focus on treatment and spend time with his family. He said he realizes that pancreatic cancer has a high death rate, but he plans to be one of the survivors.

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Over a flauta and a chicken-spinach enchilada, Brandon Bolfing and Shahed “Sky” Izaddoost took a breather from their final year at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to celebrate their Match results with friends and family at a Mexican restaurant.

“This is the first place we went in medical school,” Bolfing said. “And it will be the last now that we’ve matched.”

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In some areas of North Dakota and Minnesota, Neisseria meningitidis has developed resistance to quinolone antibiotics. Public health officials recommend that ciprofloxacin, the drug from this family commonly prescribed to reduce the risk of illness in healthy people who have been exposed to this bacterium, no longer be used for this purpose.

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Washington — President Bush’s legislation to slow Medicare spending is heavy on provisions related to doctors — from public quality rankings of physicians in five years to instituting pay-for-performance. But the bill doesn’t address Medicare physician pay cuts due to take effect July 1.

James King, MD, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, said Medicare pay reform needs to be a higher priority for the administration. “They have to come to terms with how they’re going to pay physicians, where the money is going to come from and [how to] pay toward what they want to accomplish.” The American Medical Association is working to prevent the 10.6% pay cut scheduled to kick in for the last six months of 2008.

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The University of California, Los Angeles, has started a one-of-a-kind program that may start a trend among medical schools serving large Hispanic populations, experts said.

The pilot program prepares international medical graduates who speak English and Spanish for family medicine residency by coaching them through the multistep U.S. Medical Licensing Exam and giving them clinical observerships.

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Sweet Alternatives for Blood Sugar Balance. By Monika Klein, C.N. Imagine a person eating Of course, fresh fruit is also a healthy form of natural sugar. Beneficial Supplements

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Katherine Stone, a successful marketing executive, felt as if she was in a bubble, watching a world she once knew pass in strange, sometimes frightening ways.

Within six weeks after her son’s birth, her behavior became unfamiliar. She would drive through stop signs and think, “Oh my God, what am I doing?” She felt disconnected from friends and family — as if her brain no longer worked. “I didn’t even know who I was.”

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