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THURSDAY, Aug. 23, 2018 — Patients may say no to unnecessary surgery for low-risk thyroid cancer if doctors simply avoid using the word “cancer” when discussing treatment options, a new study suggests. Nearly twice as many people wanted their entire thyroid removed when doctors used the wording “papillary thyroid cancer,” as opposed to a “papillary

NHS hospitals put up posters reminding surgeons to check they have the right patient after a series of operating theatre blunders John Radcliffe and Churchill hospitals had mishaps between May and June At the Oxford University clinics, surgeons put an endoscopy in the wrong patient Medics left a surgical cup in a patient, requiring they go

Stomach-churning footage shows 22 wax-covered white hearing aid filters extracted from deep inside a patient’s ear (and he didn’t know they were there!) Neel Raithatha, an audiologist based in Leicestershire, removed the filters The YouTube sensation admitted that he was in ‘disbelief’ when he saw them Mr Raithatha joked he would never come across such

(HealthDay)—Understanding patients’ complaints about practice can be instructive for physicians, according to an article published June 6 in Physicians Practice. Based on e-mails received in relation to a previous article, author Sue Jacques categorized complaints from patients into three groups: rudeness, rushing, and reproach. Complaints regarding rudeness vary from being verbally attacked by a receptionist

People react differently to positive events in their lives. For some, a small reward can have a large impact on their mood, while others may get a smaller emotional boost from the same positive event. These reactions can not only be objectively measured in a simple office evaluation, but researchers from the University of Illinois

It’s a discovery more than seven years in the making that researchers believe will vastly illuminate our understanding of deadly brain tumors. Gliomas are the most common type of central nervous system cancer but how these tumors develop is not fully understood. Sheri Holmen, PhD a researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and professor of