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Nurses competing with junior doctors in some assessments

...ecent survey, researchers suggests that nurses and junior doctors can both carry out pre-surgery assessments...he same degree of competence.There's a shortage of junior doctors in the UK// and it's been suggested that appropriately trained nurses might be able to take ...

Five patients die amid Bihar doctors' strike

...16 (IANS) Five patients have died amid a strike by junior doctors at the Patna Medical College// and Hospita... more can I say, we are at the mercy of god." The junior doctors began an indefinite strike Thursday to protest forcible evictions from hostels meant for nur...

Bihar High Court Intervenes To End Doctors Strike

... about the future course of action in a meeting of junior doctors." Court officials said however that the striking doctors were asked in an oral order to end their strike before their demands could be considered sympathetically as the strike had brought healthcare to a stand still at the Patna Medical Hosp...

Junior Doctors Working Long Hours May Perform Poorly

Lack of sleep for the junior doctors can affect their neurobehavioral performance as much as having alcohol and working.// During heavy call rotation and long hours, effects on residents’ neurobehavioral performance are comparable to the impairment associated with a 0.04 to 0.0...

Doctors Resign from Hospital for Bhopal Gas Victims

...ces Maintenance Act (ESMA) has been imposed on the junior doctors, under which action can be initiated again...the hospital. So we resigned collectively," said a junior doctor. The junior doctors had struck work in September during which period two gas victims undergo...

Iranian Government Declares Holiday Due To Pollution

...in closed on// 7 and 8 December 2005. The primary, junior high schools, and kindergartens in Tehran have already been closed down by the Government, while the elderly and those who suffer from heart problems have been advised to remain indoors. Many residents in downtown Tehran wore masks 6 December to pr...

Stem Cell Pioneer Is A Fraud, Claims Colleague

...emerged that the eggs for research were donated by junior female researchers from Hwang's own team. This is expressly forbidden in medical research. Subsequently, Hwang himself resigned as the director of the stem cell institute. These fresh allegations are now being denied by him. He is claiming that the...

Wrong Diagnosis Leads To Death

...r-old Cassandra Ann Laurent // , of pneumonia. The junior doctors of the hospital did not diagnose her case ...amine the x-ray until the day of her death. The junior doctors had discharged her one day before her death. The x-ray alone would have been enough to confi...

Distinguished Scientist Award Conferred on University of Rochester Scientists for Work on Preventing Cavities

...de and prevent cavity formation. "Winning both the junior investigator award and the senior investigator award is a reflection of Rochester's status in the dental research arena," said William Bowen, B.D.S., Ph.D, who nominated both investigators for the awards. "Dental caries, or cavities, is the most wide...

Junior Doctors Put An End To Strike

...ke. The strike was the offshoot of a clash between junior doctors belonging to the King George's Medical Uni...rested bringing a sobering effect on the agitating junior doctors. At least 10 unattended patients were reported to have died during the course of the present...

A Protein In Yoghurt Has The Potential To Fight E. coli

...ein was discovered by 16-year-old Serena Fasano, a junior at Glenelg High School, after three years of research at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine. Her father is director of the Mucosal Biology Research Center. Fasano has been awarded a patent for the protein, although it is officially owned...

Patients Left Helpless As Mumbai Doctors Strike Continues

...gled to cope with emergency cases with the help of junior doctors. "I have been waiting here for the last five hours with my father, who has high fever and a breathing problem, but there is no one to take care of him," said a harried Dilip Jadhav, outside the KEM Hospital in central Mumbai's Parel area. ...

Online recruitment criticised by doctors

A new online application system for junior doctor posts is not in the interest of talented do...e work needs to be done, not necessarily where the junior doctor wants to be. It has always been the case that some medical school graduates wouldn't get thei...

Doctors Protest Against Allowing Nurses To Perform Minor Surgeries

...ions. Such procedures were previously conducted by junior doctors. Medical prescription is yet another area where nurses are involving themselves. Voices have also been raised against provision of new grade of NHS health care jobs to science graduates or nurses with 2-year formal training. It is expected ...

Calcutta National Medical College Strike Continues Unabated

Kolkata: Friday night’s attack on 30 junior doctors by the relatives of a patient, who purport... died due to medical apathy// , has instigated 200 junior doctors of the Calcutta National Medical College to strike work. The chief minister of Kolkata had...

Hospital Booked For Negligence

...f a proper system of supervision and evaluation of junior staff at the hospital. Mr Jenkins also said that if the hospital had organized daily visits by a specialist registrar for all patients then the chances of such an incident would have been lessened. Many of them were not happy with the system, a seni...

Hospital Trust Fined ￡100,000 after Patient Deat

... consultants would go on ward rounds and supervise junior doctors more closlely this approach to supervision and management was not formalised in the trust. Richard Lissack QC, in mitigation, apologised to the family and friends of Sean Phillips for the death but stressed that the trust was not responsib...

Patients In A.P Inconvenienced As Doctors Go On Strike

Nearly 2500 junior postgraduate doctors boycotted emergency services, in ten government medical college hospitals in Andhra Pradesh They claim to be on strike// to mount pressure on the government in support of their demands. The members of Andhra Pradesh Medical Stu...

Another Twist to the Tale of Reservation of Medical Seats

...eas. The Health Minister appealed to medicos and junior doctors to call off their protests over the increased reservation for in-service candidates, realising the realities involved. ...

Doctors Strike In Andhra Enters The Second Day

...rvices in Andhra Pradesh came to a standstill with junior doctors and postgraduate students indefinite// str... the second day. Patients had a harrowing time as junior doctors boycotted emergency services. Patients seeking immediate medical assistance had to approach ...

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