Emily Ferguson is happy when she looks in the mirror and recognizes herself, a slender and athletic woman with medium blonde hair cut at shoulder length. If you want to copy hairstyle but you know your hair needs a little trimming, you must first avail tools such as Japan Scissors USA. And she’s relieved that…
Sylvia Wright hails from a family that has a long tradition of white coats. The Atlanta-based dermatologist and partner at Peachtree Dermatology Associates is a fourth-generation physician. For her, the white coat represents “the honor, the service and the commitment of practicing medicine.” But Wright could be the last in her family to wear this…
News stories of possible terrorism in the skies and long waits on the ground are grabbing the headlines as summer air travel heats up. Lingering in the background are ongoing discussions of pilot health and its impact on airline safety. The issue jumped to the forefront last spring when the co-pilot of a Germanwings flight locked himself into the…
In the past few months, a specter has been haunting and unsettling the medical community and way beyond: the specter of the disruptive doctor. Recent media reports show a rising number of cases in which physicians are losing control, such as surgeons throwing instruments in the operating room and yelling at their staff, or doctors…
This article is reprinted with permission from WABE. The last patient of the day lies on the operating table of Dr. Kenneth Neufeld. Time to play some hip-hop. “Oftentimes we change the music at the end of the day to give every one in the room a little bit of an energizing boost just to…
What’s the price tag of a leg amputated as a result of a doctor’s negligence in the operating room? It can easily be $3 million in the United States. In my native Germany, it may be $30,000. That’s a catchy and somewhat unfair comparison, of course. But it points to a highly controversial subject: medical…
It’s been about a year since the United States fully implemented the Affordable Care Act – called by friends and foes “Obamacare.” It’s been about a year since curiosity rose in Europe about the highly contested milestone reform, and since my editors got hungrier by the day for stories about healthcare in America. And it’s…