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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wait a minute, Doc. You want me to share my appointment with 10 other patients?...

New York doctors are reporting a spike in emergency room visits - and they say low-income patients are landing there because they can't get a regular doctor's appointment.

"This felt more like a tea party than a doctor's appointment," a patient observed as we wrapped up our first clinic visit.

Just the idea of the dentist turns many adults into petulant children. Reasonable grown-ups leave that reminder postcard pinned up on the bulletin board for months before shuffling to the telephone like a mopey teenager to make the appointment.

Once there, leaned back and incapable of anything mo...

NEW YORK (AP) -- One in five Medicare patients end up back in the hospital within a month of discharge, a large study found, and that practice costs billions of dollars a year.

The findings suggest patients aren't told enough about how to take care of themselves and stay healthy before they go home, the researchers said.

A few simple things - like making a doctor's appointment for departing patients - can help, they said....

Your sinuses are clogged worse than the expressway at rush hour. You can tame your symptoms until appointment day comes around with these strategies.