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From 'god-like' to team huddle: Training doctors for a new health care future
Dan Gorenstein Mar 15, 2013
At medical schools across the country, more than 30,000 aspiring doctors are meeting their matches and finding out where they will spend the next several years as residents.
Is the new health insurance application form too long?
Kai Ryssdal Mar 13, 2013
The AP got its hands on an application for benefits under the health care reform law. It's 15 pages long, and could take anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes to fill out.
The costs of living with HIV: One man's story
David Lazarus Mar 8, 2013
How does living with a disease like HIV affect one's financial choices?
Florida Medicaid switcheroo: Rick Scott backs down
Dan Gorenstein Feb 21, 2013
One of the Affordable Care Act's fiercest critics, Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott has reversed courses and is dropping his opposition to expanding Medicaid.
Since last State of Union, jobs came from health, education
Scott Tong Feb 12, 2013
Perhaps every successful politician promises employment. But looking back at the president's first term, where have the jobs actually come from?
The medical Internet of things and the future of health care
David Brancaccio Feb 8, 2013
How will health care be transformed by smart devices, continuous patient monitoring, and tele-medicine?
How Americans think about the economy and their lives
Frank Newport Jan 31, 2013
When asked about how the economy directly impacts their lives, most Americans give the obvious answers -- and a couple of surprises too.
$53,000 for a cat bite? You gotta be 'kitten' me!
David Lazarus Jan 25, 2013
Guest host David Lazarus grills the head of the hospital where he was recently treated for a cat bite to the tune of $53,000.
How a cat bite cost one man $55,000
David Lazarus Jan 22, 2013
His own cat bit him. Then David Lazarus got an infection. Surgery, tests and a hospital stay later, his total bill came to $55,000.
How to avoid the flu
David Lazarus Jan 23, 2013
Flu season is in full swing. Some people take the flu shot, some take time off when they feel under the weather and some still report to work no matter how bad they feel. Dr. Russell Greenfield answers questions about seasonal sickness and debunks some common myths about the flu shot.
