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• Hamasteopaths? Medical-Qaeda?

  Published: July 9, 2007, 5:38 pm

  Tags: Comedy, Al Qaeda, Doctors, Muslim, Terrorism, Islam, Christianity, Politics, Wars, News

  all our nice young foreign doctors are potential Jihadis. Yes, BUPA, of all people, saying that the NHS is not up to scratch. What possible motivation could they have for saying that? The point is that last week's news was full of shock and horror that doctors could have been involved in the recent failed bomb-attacks. BBC Radio 4 had one of

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• Cellphone lights enable operation to proceed in blackout

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:01 am

  Tags: Argentina, Blackout, Doctors, Generator, Light, Medical, Operation, Power Outage, Poweroutage, Surgeons, Surgery, Weird

  a bundle of handsets enabled doctors to continue on in a recent operation that differentiated this one from the rest. Reportedly, the backup generators at the Policlinico Juan D. Peron hospital in Argentina failed to activate after the power went out whilst an appendix surgery was ongoing, but rather than panicking, a family member gathered up a

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• Operating System: Surgeons Finish Operation Using Only Cellphone Screens Lighting

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Argentina, Cellphones, Doctors, Medical, Operating System

  Surgeons in Argentina were able to complete an operation using the light from cell phone screens after a city-wide blackout. The hospital's generator failed to kick in and they continued to work in darkness until someone stepped into the room - not the Spanish Inquisition but, nevertheless, someone completely unexpected. Local man Leonardo Molina

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• Operating System: Surgeons Finish Operation Using Just Cellphone-Screen Lighting

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Argentina, Cellphones, Doctors, Medical, Operating System, Top

  Surgeons in Argentina were able to complete an operation using the light from cell phone screens after a city-wide blackout. The hospital's generator failed to kick in and they continued to work in darkness until someone stepped into the room - not the Spanish Inquisition but, nevertheless, someone completely unexpected. Local man Leonardo Molina

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• Cancer patients see maze of care from doctors

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:48 am

  Tags: Cancer, Doctors, Oncology

  opinions from several doctors.With more than 1.4 million new cases of cancer due in 2007, one would expect the knowledge and options to be somewhat standard. As we all know, every case if different and there are so many variables at play that a customized treatment set is needed. Do all doctors pay this much attention to each cancer

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• Coaching patients and physicians to make the most of visits

  Published: August 1, 2007, 6:42 am

  Tags: Communication Skills, Communicationskills, Doctors Visits, Doctorsvisits, Physicians

  in communication skills for doctors. According to the review, doctors often underestimate their patients' needs for information. Also, physicians are sometimes reluctant to give information they feel could be disturbing or harmful when treating patients with serious or life-threatening illnesses. In addition, studies have shown that patients

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• Americans and Europeans trust their doctors the most

  Published: August 4, 2007, 6:55 am

  Tags: Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians, Trust

  most people do trust their doctors--more than any other professional they deal with in fact, a study shows. Not surprisingly, lawyers and politicians are the least-trusted. What do you think about these results? Are we right to trust out doctors? Or should we be taking more responsibility for our health and not relying on a virtual stranger to

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• Immunizations, Children, and Lots of Questions

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:01 am

  Tags: Vaccines, Myth, Health, Parenting, Media, Weblogs, Treatment, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Babies, Children, Doctors, Education, Family, Health, Mercury, Mothers, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Radio, Shots, Vaccines, Young Children

  Mention vaccines in autism and you can feel the mercury rising and the conversation become an exchange of volleys between those who state their child became autistic because of a vaccine (such as the MMR) or because of something in vaccines (such as mercury via the mercury-based perservative thimerasol, which, with the exception of some flu

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• What does your pediatrician know about autism treatments?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Health, Parenting, Science, Treatment, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Babies, Children, Doctors, Education, Family, Health, Mercury, Mothers, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Pediatricians, Science, Treatment, Vaccines, Young Children

  What do I do, what do I do? How I find out about what to do to help my child who has been newly diagnosed with autism? The child study team tells me about educational services, speech therapy, and OT but then I get on the internet, Google autism treatments, and I read about so many other treatments and parents themselves report that they see

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• Doom Triggered Million Dollar Professional Video Game Training Studies

  Published: August 13, 2007, 12:05 am

  Tags: Game Related Science, Gamer Life, Doctors, Medical Industry, Professional Training, Texas Amp M Corpus Christi, University Studies

  games could be used to train doctors and other professionals? Johnson secured ten million dollars in federal funding for a research project named “Pulse!” which focuses on supplemental educational tools for medical residents and for continuing education or specialty certification by experienced physicians. And the program has created

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• Japanese Universities Avoid Teaching Students about War Crimes

  Published: August 15, 2007, 2:37 pm

  Tags: International Education, Army, Doctors, Experiments, Germany, Helsinki Declaration, Imperial, Japan, Nazi, Unit 731, University, War Crimes

  Japan does not face up to its past very well.Nobody likes to dig up the ugly past about themselves, except for maybe the Germans.Only 20% of Japanese universities' medical facilities teach their charges about war crimes committed by medical workers in the former Imperial Japanese Army's

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• Allergic to Wasps and Bees? Might want to skip the Mosto!

  Published: August 16, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Headlines, Venom, Triggers, Allergic, Reactions Wasp, People, Developed, Severe, Reactions, Pressed, Armentia Armentia, Suspects, The, Aged, Wines, Dangerous, Reaction, Produce, Whole Body, Spanish, Doctors Alicia, Armentia

  to a group of Spanish doctors…Alicia Armentia at the Rio Hortega Hospital in Valladolid, Spain, and her colleagues treated five people who had developed severe allergic reactions after drinking either wine or grape juice. Three of the patients had facial flushing and swollen lips, while another experienced asthma-like symptoms. The

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• Walk-in “Quick Clinics” controversial

  Published: August 23, 2007, 5:12 pm

  Tags: Doctors, Health Care, Health

  when one considers that many doctors do not adhere to so called “standardized medical protocols derived from evidence-based practice.” There will always be patients who do not benefit from such standards, because every patient is unique. However most patients do benefit from such standards which is why they are

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• Pharmaceutical companies and the doctors who work for them

  Published: August 18, 2007, 11:46 am

  Tags: Doctors, Health Care, Drug Companies, Health

  Dr. Ed of Abducens Nucleus has posted Part 2 of his series “Sick, Sicker, and Sicko,” this time discussing some of the problems in the British NHS. There’s some good points over there, including how fewer Brits see medicine as a good career choice, hence the country is relying very heavily on foreign graduates (which can be

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• Doctors urged to apologize when they make a mistake

  Published: August 30, 2007, 1:03 pm

  Tags: Apologize, Doctors, Malpractice

  in the article, although all doctors say they want to be honest, fewer than half actually reveal serious errors that they have made. One of the biggest obstacles to disclosure is the fear of lawsuits and more than 30 states have passed 'apology laws' that bar apologies by physicians being used against physicians in court. However, according to

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