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I awoke in the early hours of the morning today with a deep and productive cough.  The sputum was not a pretty shade of yellowish-green. What it told me is that I probably needed: a throat culture a doctor to listen to my lungs to distinguish URI from deep lung infection Antibiotics After constantly hearing that [...]

Posted by barbarahales

According to Maggie Mahar of Health Beat, physicians need to be trained to be more compassionate and more sympathetic starting from training in medical school.  She also feels that taking students who do not perform as well on national qualifying exams (which she states are biased against rural, poor students) would further the goal of [...]