Libya Faults Bulgarian Pardon of Medical Workers
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- Libya Faults Bulgarian Pardon of Medical Workers
- Putting medical relief on track
- CMMN SENSE & EVIDENCE: 40 years of medical school
- Safeguarding the right to say no to medical technology
- ne injured in Miss. medical helicopter crash
Libya Faults Bulgarian Pardon of Medical Workers
New York Times – Jul 29, 2007
Libya’s foreign minister Abdelrahman Shalgham said at a news conference in Tripoli that the workers should have been detained upon their arrival in Bulgaria on Tuesday and not freed in a “celebratory and illegal manner” Agence France-Presse reported. The medics five Bulgarian nurses and a.
Putting medical relief on track
Boston Globe – Jul 29, 2007
Claire Carlo (left) with patient Lynette Bush 50 a horse trainer who is having leg pain. Carlo works at the track two days a week. Claire Carlo (left) with patient Lynette Bush 50 a horse trainer who is having leg pain. Carlo works at the track two days a week.
CMMN SENSE & EVIDENCE: 40 years of medical school
Nation News – Jul 29, 2007
by HENRY FRASER riens ex occidente lux (A light shining out of the West). – UWI mottoTHIS YEAR 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the Medical School of the UWI at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in Barbados. The quiet focused way in which the school has gone about the business of producing most of the doctors who now provide health care to 275 000 Bajan citizens and residents and more than a million visitors every year is nothing short of a miracle considering how few Bajans seem to know that there is a medical school here and that we train our own doctors!Every so often someone quite close to me who I assume knows all about my own work and the School of Clinical Medicine and Research asks me what I do at the QEH and expresses astonishment to hear that there is a medical school in Barbados! – In spite of the byline at the end of this column. So here are some facts about the best kept secret in Bimshire:The University of the West Indies began in 1948 with its first 33 students. These were carefully selected medical students who entered the medical faculty at Mona in Jamaica. In 1963 the medical class expanded to 110 and teaching began at the QEH and the Port-of-Spain General Hospital in Trinidad.
Safeguarding the right to say no to medical technology
Taipei Times – Taipei Times – Jul 29, 2007
He specifically indicated that he would not want to undergo major surgery. A cardinal principle of contemporary medical ethics is that patients have the right to make this type of decision and that physicians are obligated to follow their wishes. To disregard a patient’s preferences once he loses the ability to make decisions — as occurred when DeBakey’s wife reportedly stormed into a late-night hospital ethics committee meeting and demanded that the surgery take place — violates the hard-won respect for patients’ autonomy gained over the past 20 years. Much of the commentary about the case has centered on whether a patient’s wishes can be overridden even by loving family members.
ne injured in Miss. medical helicopter crash
Memphis Commercial Appeal – Jul 29, 2007
Bailey baileya@commercialappeal. byline –>Sunday July 29 2007 A medical helicopter carrying a patient and three crew members crashed on takeoff early Saturday from Quitman County Hospital in Marks Miss. 60 miles south of Memphis. The helicopter was transporting the patient injured in a car wreck to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. ne of the crew members was taken to The Med after sustaining a broken bone. The female patient was not further injured.
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