Knees end former UO QB Costa’s police career

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — The sore knees that ended Nate Costa’s playing days as the University of Oregon’s quarterback have also ended his career plans as a police officer in Springfield. He tweaked a knee Aug. 22 while running an obstacle course on the first day of training at the Oregon Public Safety Academy in Salem. Costa says doctors advised him to pull out of the academy.

2011 spring training: Atlanta Braves minor league manager Luis Salazar airlifted to hospital after being hit by foul …

Braves minor league manager Luis Salazar is awake and able to respond to doctors after being hit in the face by a foul ball during an exhibition game.

Doctors in Training Listen, but Does Their Bedside Manner Click?

A woman lets her heart speak, and some medical students talk back — others, not so much.

Patients protest Chinese doctor’s risky surgery

At one moment, the Chinese urologist seemed to be at the height of his career: He had invented a surgical procedure to help patients overcome incontinence and was training doctors in America and elsewhere. The next, Dr. Xiao Chuanguo was in handcuffs, confessing that he’d hired thugs to attack two persistent critics who called him a fraud.

Patients protest Chinese doctor’s risky surgery

At one moment, the Chinese urologist seemed to be at the height of his career: He had invented a surgical procedure to help patients overcome incontinence and was training doctors in America and elsewhere. The next, Dr. Xiao Chuanguo was in handcuffs, confessing that he’d hired thugs to attack two persistent critics who called him a fraud.