Asian Doctors Caught Issuing False Sick Notes
Disciplinary proceedings are taking place against five doctors, four of whom are Asians who were caught issuing false sick notes in a sting// operation in the UK. The operation was conducted by newspaper reporters who posed as sick patients, and the doctors may be struck of the medical register altogether. Anand, a general practitioner based in Gosforth in northeast England, is char...False beliefs could cost cancer patients their lives
Lung cancer is by far the biggest cancer killer around the world. It will kill 157,000 Americans in 2003.// In a recent survey researchers found that 38 percent of 626 patients they surveyed held this belief. When broken down by race, 61 percent of the black and 29 percent of the white patients at five centers said they believed exposing a tumor to air would cause it to spread. Most of...Researchers at Cornell University as been reported using research fund by false claims
Researchers at Cornell University in New York are under investigation for allegedly enrolling inappropriate participants in research studies and filing false information on protocols with the US National Institutes // of Health (NIH) to maintain government funding for a university research center. Former researcher at the pediatric center accused the center’s director of using the cli...KGMCTA Condemns False Report, Concerning Death of a Boy
The Kerala Government Medical College Teachers Association (KGMCTA) on Friday has staged a protest, condemning the report about the death // of a boy, Shyam, at the Medical College Hospital in Tiruvanathapuram. The report claimed that the death was caused due to the administration of wrong medicine. According to the statement from the KGMCTA, Shyam, who was suffering from Steven John...