Today's Globe: dental coverage, ER wait time, Jordan Phillips, West Nile virus, Lyme disease, hospital food
Two years into the state's bold healthcare experiment, its early success in expanding dental coverage may be threatened by a shortage of dentists willing to treat newly insured patients.
The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released yesterday.
Dr. Jordan M. Phillips, a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology who championed the use of laparoscopy for gynecological diagnosis and surgery when it was still a new procedure in the United States, has died. He was 85.
In regional news, this summer's wet weather may mean more mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus north, northwest, west, and south of Boston. Dover is considering an expanded deer-hunting season to combat Lyme disease this year.
Long-maligned hospital cafeterias draw outsiders with low prices, almost-haute cuisine.
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Elizabeth Cooney covers health for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She
previously reported on business and was an editor at the paper. Earlier in
her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and
worked for Boston magazine.Boston Globe Health and Science staff:
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