President Donald Trump will press Congress to carry out his priorities for replacing Obamacare, jump-starting the economy and bolstering the nation’s defenses in an address eagerly awaited by lawmakers, investors and the public who want greater clarity on his policy agenda. Trump on Tuesday afternoon was putting the finishing touches on his first address to a joint session of Congress, and his spokesman was dispatched to the Capitol to deliver briefings on the major points the president intends to make in the speech, scheduled to begin at 9:10 p.m. Washington time.
Category: Health Care Policy
Women really are better doctors, study suggests
If male doctors were able to do as well as their female counterparts when treating elderly patients in the hospital, they could save 32,000 lives a year, according to a study of 1.5 million hospital visits. A month after patients were hospitalized, there was a small, but significant difference in the likelihood that they were still alive or had to be readmitted to the hospital depending on the gender of the doctor who cared for them, according to the study published in JAMA Internal Medicine .