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When Ebola struck, Liberia had only 120 doctors for its four million citizens.
But doctors and professors earn far less than those who join the fledgling private economy.
America’s initial indifference was best reflected in President Harry Truman’s reaction when Chester Bowles asked to be named ambassador to India: “I thought India was pretty jammed with poor people and cows round streets, witch doctors, and people sitting on hot coals and bathing in the Ganges…but I did not realize anybody thought it was important.”
In the long run, doctors will look back on all of this as healthy experimentation.
That aspiration seemed impossible during my childhood, when women could join the military only as doctors, certainly not in combat roles.
Economists were like doctors telling patients that, while some wine may be beneficial, too much is certainly dangerous – without being able to tell them how many glasses per day they were allowed.
At first, doctors initially had no idea as to the cause.
At hospitals throughout the country, doctors concluded that there was nothing they could do.
Thus, when they saw and heard that doctors couldn't help, people brought their sick family member home.
The crisis did provide doctors with some greater understanding of how to detect methyl mercury poisoning.
Likewise, every year, Congress canceled “planned” cuts in payments to physicians that, if ever implemented, would drive doctors out of the Medicare system.
By linking these communities to a communications hub, nurses, doctors, and specialists were digitally available 24 hours a day, offering immediate support to patients and community-based health workers (CHWs).
In Europe, doctors link up with patients by phone and email to advise on immediate and long-term care.
And across Africa, NGOs like Doctors Without Borders use telemedicine to connect difficult-to-treat patients to specialists in distant countries.
When well-intentioned pledges fail to reach those in need, the result is measured in a lack of resources – from a shortage of doctors to a lack of vehicles to transport the sick and bury the dead.
Since then many other professionals, from doctors and health-care practitioners to librarians and software specialists, have joined them.
Today, some of the world’s most common killers – such as cardiovascular illnesses and certain cancers – are preventable; as technology advances, doctors will be able to diagnose and treat these diseases even faster.
Already, EU migrants – from seasonal workers harvesting fruit and vegetables to academics broadening the minds of the next generation and doctors and nurses protecting our health –make a major contribution to the UK economy.
The Truth about Medical ConsentLONDON – Is it acceptable for doctors to withhold information from their patients?
To avoid exposing themselves to claims of negligence or even, in rare cases, criminal assault, doctors must disclose an ever increasing amount of information, however bleak, about treatment risks, benefits, and alternatives, enabling the patient to give “informed consent.”
Maintaining a patient’s hope while fulfilling the obligation of disclosure is one of the most difficult tasks doctors face.
Many doctors struggle to obtain proper consent.
One problem is that doctors receive little formal training in obtaining consent, with medical schools teaching only the basics.
As a result, many doctors are unaware of the subtleties of what constitutes valid consent in the eyes of the law and their professional body – a task made more difficult by the evolving rules on consent.
Another problem is that many doctors consider obtaining consent to be a tedious obligation, with senior doctors sometimes delegating the task to less experienced colleagues.
Moreover, doctors often obtain consent hastily, in a way that sounds almost rehearsed, as if unaware that the patient is receiving the information for the first time.
But we should be able to make that choice, letting doctors know if we would prefer to be well informed or minimally informed.
Obtaining consent is a vital but often overlooked skill for doctors.
Understanding why so many doctors struggle with it is the first step toward raising the standards of consent.
And whereas previous generations of scientists quickly found new substitutes, today, in many cases, doctors are down to their last line of defense.
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