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The trouble is that many hospitals and doctors rely on drug sales for a large portion of their revenues, which creates a powerful incentive to find ways to circumvent the rules.
Yet, in much of Africa, a lack of affordable medications, and a dearth of trained doctors and nurses, means that patients rarely receive the care they need.
Although Belgium’s euthanasia law now has no specific age requirement – thus differing from Dutch legislation, which permits doctors to provide euthanasia, on request, to minors who are at least 12 years old – it does require the person requesting euthanasia to have a demonstrable capacity for rational decision-making.
The request must be examined by a team of doctors and a psychiatrist or psychologist, and requires the approval of the minor’s parents.
For example, studies of epidural steroid injections for back pain have been shown to be almost three times more likely to yield positive results when conducted by doctors who routinely administer them.
A few hundred Jewish intellectuals -- writers, doctors, lawyers, even a few women -- mainly from Eastern Europe, came together in Basil, Switzerland.
Doctors know that misprescribing or overprescribing antibiotic creates more resistant microbes.
Moreover, most health IT systems in use in America today are designed primarily to facilitate efficient billing, rather than efficient care, putting the business interests of hospitals and clinics ahead of the needs of doctors and patients.
It is a challenge that demands more attention not just from doctors, nurses, non-governmental organizations, and other relevant actors, but also from engineers, who can make indispensable contributions to global public health.
In 2012, my colleagues and I created PharmaChk, a portable device that doctors can use to detect fake or ineffective medications in hard-to-reach places.
Doctors Should Stop Defining Sexual “Normality”NEW YORK – On October 26, 1996, a small group of activists picketed outside an American Academy of Pediatrics conference in Boston to draw attention to the fact that cosmetic surgeries were routinely being performed on intersex children and newborns.
Over a decade ago, doctors at the hospital performed a medically unnecessary surgery to alter Pidgeon’s clitoris, vagina, and gonads without Pidgeon’s consent.
More to the point, they shed light on why doctors continue to perform medically unnecessary, high-risk procedures on intersex children who are too young to consent, even though the practice has been controversial for decades within the medical community.
Of course, some doctors justify these procedures in terms of psychological wellbeing.
Medical experts from Physicians for Human Rights, the WHO, the American Medical Association board of trustees, and a host of human-rights groups believe that only intersex individuals – not their parents or doctors – should decide whether to undergo surgery.
Even so, providing universal health care access would almost certainly lead more people to consult doctors about their symptoms, and therefore would reinforce any education campaign.
Doctors have made many errors that they could have avoided had these principles been applied.
For example, for a decade leading doctors advocated hormone replacement therapy to lower cardiovascular risk in post-menopausal women.
They have every reason to be concerned: There have also been calls to outlaw ritual circumcision in the Netherlands and Scandinavia; doctors in the United Kingdom are under pressure to support a ban as well; and few have forgotten that the practice’s legality was challenged in Germany in 2012.
Refugee Doctors for Refugee HealthTORONTO – Syrian refugees are often portrayed as an unwelcome drain on the communities to which they relocate, especially with regard to health care.
As they settle in places far from the hospitals and clinics in which they once practiced, Syria’s doctors simply want to get back to work.
The National Health Service and the British Medical Association have begun retraining refugee doctors, including many from Syria and Afghanistan, to fill the ranks of depleted clinics in UK.
Through English-language training, postgraduate study, and professional registration, programs in London, Lincolnshire, and Scotland aim to reintegrate refugee doctors into the medical profession.
Retraining refugee doctors is not only a moral exercise; it also makes practical sense.
Displaced doctors are better able to treat refugee patients’ ailments.
Refugee doctors can also help ensure that the flood of new patients does not overwhelm host countries’ health-care systems.
With approximately 600 refugee doctors living in Britain, the well of untapped talent in the UK is deep.
Moreover, refugee patients benefit when treated by doctors who understand their circumstances, including the enormous psychosocial stress that displacement causes.
Doctors who understand refugees emotionally and culturally are better equipped to put patients at ease.
Britain is not alone in recognizing the potential of refugee doctors.
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