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MINNEAPOLIS, December 26, 2007-American Medical News has compiled a list of the year's strangest medical news items, from which we have cobbled a Top 10 Weird Stories for 2007.
- A third of practices have partners who refuse to use an EMR system already installed.
- 60% to 70% of patients do not read or understand informed-consent documents.
- 92% of adults say they always wash their hands after using a public restroom but only 77% actually do.
- Statins are the best-selling drugs in the history of medicine.
- 5% to 10% of patients diagnosed with MS don't have the disease.
- 75% of emerging human diseases originated in animals.
- 78% of patients want doctors to shake hands in the first meeting.
- 10 states still have eugenic sterilization laws.
- In the first second of an ischemic stroke, 32,000 brain cells die.
- Risks are about equal for taking an aspirin a day, driving a car and being a firefighter.
Author: Michael Finley
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