71. Last year, after realizing that her pool of patients was enough to keep her busy for quite a while, she stopped seeing new patients at all. 72. Late last year, he saw six patients at the same time with the disorder, all from one small area of Missouri. 73. Many doctors who do see patients are leaving the state for higher-paying jobs in lower-cost regions of the country, the society says. 74. Ms. Kinsey said that the Indian Health Service, for instance, sets aside rooms in its hospitals for medicine people to see patients along with a Western doctor. 75. Ms. Tanguy says her doctors report seeing patients who die as they are being examined. 76. Nor does it curb financial incentives to doctors for seeing more patients, prescribing fewer drugs and making fewer referrals. 77. Not too long ago he saw a patient new to the area, a little boy with a runny nose. 78. One is a system that allows a doctor to see a patient on a video telephone system. 79. Physicians lost some of their autonomy and had to work harder to make ends meet, seeing more patients during shorter visits. 80. Powell also sees patients at other Bay Area sites, including Santa Rosa, and says that ovarian cancer almost always sneaks up on its victims. |