Doctors and profits: are the new money-making schemes compromising your care?

Article Abstract:

Patients must watch out for signs that their doctors are after more than providing genuine medical care. As doctors were forced into taking a pay cut after the implementation of some managed-care policies, some have begun to adopt practices that may just compromise the quality of medical care that they provide their patients. Three such practices are discussed.

Analysis, Medical care, Practice, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Physicians, Medical professions

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The return of the sponge and other new birth control options

Article Abstract:

Three new forms of contraception will soon be available to women. These are the return of the sponge to be manufactured by Allendale Pharmaceuticals, a new version of morning-after birth control using progestin-only pills and a new IUD called GyneFix.

Methods, Contraception

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Contraception

Article Abstract:

Several types of birth control methods are described including condoms with spermicide, the birth-control pill, and the cervical cap with spermicide. Failure rates are provided and the impact of the method on sexual pleasure is discussed.

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