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Inability to Pay Driving Some Doctors Out of Private Practice

David Boles, a family physician in Clarksville, Tenn., isn’t one of them, but his practice is having an increasingly hard time. “We’re dying, man. What people are doing is they’re saving up bunches of things to talk to a doctor about in one visit. So they’re decreasing their number of visits per year. And if a physician spends an hour with a patient, he can’t be paid enough by the insurance companies to warrant an hour’s work.” [...]

Industrial Cleaner Linked to Increased Risk of Parkinson’s Disease

“This is the first time a population-based study has confirmed case reports that exposure to TCE may increase a person’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.” [...]