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Joe Fibber, M.D.: Why Do Doctors Tell White Lies?
When I was a medical student, I worked with a doctor who lied. One day, she lied by ordering a kidney stone CT scan on a patient whom she thought had appendicitis
Katrina’s Lingering Medical Nightmare
Melinda Amedee was scheduled to have a tumor removed from her kidney at a New Orleans hospital on August 30. She lives far enough away from the city to have missed serious damage from Hurricane Katrina.
What They’re Saying About the War
France: In Search of Bin Laden’s Urologist Osama Bin Laden may be in less danger from smart bombs than from kidney stones, according to a report in the French daily Le Figaro.
Crush of cancer, medical bills snares family
Leslie Elder’s eyelids fluttered open, and through the fog of pain medication, she saw the emergency room doctors pull back the curtain in her room. She could tell that the news was bad
Man must choose between selling kidney or child
Mohammed Iqbal said he has been told by his landlord to pay up on debts and is left with a choice facing others in this impoverished corner of Pakistan: Sell your children or a kidney. For the 50-year-old Iqbal, there is only one option. Despite a law passed in late 2007 banning transplants for money, he has decided to sell his kidney and has already been for pre-operation tests
Toronto safety drill provides inadvertent test
It was just a drill. But at first glance, it looked a lot like a possible terror attack
Natalie Cole kidney came from deceased fan
Natalie Cole’s search for a new kidney ended this week when someone with a compatible organ died and their family asked that it be given to the singer, according to the organ procurement group that handled the donation. Cole, who underwent a successful kidney transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, was “responding well and recuperating” Thursday, her publicist said.
Tornado kills 10 in India
A tornado ripped through more than 60 villages along India’s eastern coast, killing 10 and injuring around 100 people, officials said Wednesday. Before she finished telling King Tuesday night about her battles with drugs, illnesses and her search for a kidney, dozens of e-mails flooded the CNN studio
Suspected drone attacks kills 8 in Pakistan
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed eight people in in the violence-plagued tribal region in northwestern Pakistan Wednesday, a local political official said.