Respect

Physicians Need To Treat Patients With Respect For Treatment To Be Effective

Research by the scientists from Johns Hopkins had found that patients, who are treated with respect by their medical practitioners, are the ones who follow all the advice of their physicians for effective treatment of their ailments. // In a national survey of more than 5,000 Americans, those who said they were treated with dignity during their last medical encounter were more likely...

Respecting Dwarfs- A Lesson To Be Learnt From Ancient Egyptians

A retrospective study conducted by researchers from the Georgetown University hospital has revealed that dwarfs in ancient Egypt had received their much-deserved respect. An examination of the biological // remains and other art forms demonstrated that dwarfism was not considered as a form of physical deformity. Infact, ancient Egyptians even worshipped Gods with a short stature. Dwarfs...

Liberia in safe hands with respect to HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS, the disease is increasing day by day and the mortality rate is also directly proportional to the raise. To put an end to the increasing number of AIDS/HIV patients// United Nations Development Program HIV/AIDS program (UNDP) has appointed 29 HIV/AIDS Counselors. This program was started under the Global Fund for AIDS in Liberia. The main idea behind this p...

Bad Publicity for the Hospital With Respect To Dwarfism Abortion Case

Royal Women's Hospital has warned that it is a breach of trust if the court orders to release a woman’s medical records as this undermine the trust between a doctor and a patient.// The hospital said that it would do everything in our power' to maintain the privacy of the woman who had an abortion at 32 weeks' pregnancy. She plans to take the case to the High Court after the Court of Appeal orde...

Head Of The Church Of England Asks NHS To Respect Patient Needs

Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has warned that National Health Service cuts brought about by the competitive system could compromise the quality and centrality of patient care. // R Williams who is the head of the Church of England suggested that "short-term economics" threatens to undermine the service delivery, and this could put vulnerable people at particular ris...

WHO Praises Singapore and Vietnam but Slams China With Respect To Tackling SARS

World Heath Organization (WHO) has praised the way in which the two countries Singapore and Vietnam, has tackled the issue of SARS but criticized china.// China threatened the rest of the world by withholding information and denying the disease outbreak in the critical early months. In its book WHO talks about how the virus affected the Hong Kong hospitals. It also talks about the way b...

Supreme Court Ruling On Health Care Not Respected. Alleged Physician

Jacques Chaoulli, a physician who emerged victorious in a historic Supreme Court case around a year ago says that the Quebec government has not complied with the ruling providing expanded access to private care//. 'Almost all services are still going to be prohibited from any (private) coverage. It’s a violation of the judgment. Just for political expediency, many Quebecers are going...