Doctors Should Prepare To Handle Angry Patients, For Own Protection And To Avoid Complaints, Says Medical Protection ...
The Medical Protection Society is marking Anger Awareness Week by offering advice to doctors who could be confronted by aggressive patients, upset at their perception of some aspect of the service they have received.

?Tree of Life? honors past doctors and medical staff
As a way to honor the lives of those doctors and staff members who saved the lives of so many, the Houston Northwest Medical Center put the ?Tree of Life? work of art on permanent display.

Medical residents need more rest to prevent deadly errors: study
Worn-out medical residents need more breaks to avoid dangerous slip-ups, according to a report released Tuesday by the Institute of Medicine. The prescription: Doctors in training shouldn't work for more than 16 hours without sleep, which is a drop from previous standards.

Expert panel seeks changes in training of medical residents
A national panel of medical experts proposed significant and costly changes for training new doctors in the nation's hospitals, recommending mandatory sleep breaks and more structured shift changes to reduce the risk of fatigue-related errors.

Medical board takes actions against three doctors
The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners on Monday suspended the licenses of two Las Vegas physicians, Dr. Stephen Seldon and Dr. Randall Foster.

Revised Hours And Workloads For Medical Residents Needed To Reduce Fatigue-Related Mistakes
A new report proposes revisions to medical residents' duty hours and workloads to decrease the chances of fatigue-related medical errors and to enhance the learning environment for these doctors in training.

Cleveland Clinic Discloses Doctors? Industry Ties
In the first such step by a major medical center, the clinic says it has begun publicly disclosing the business relationships its staff has with drug makers.

BREAKING NEWS: 11 a.m. ? GMH doctors support controversial anesthesiologist
11 a.m. ? Guam Memorial Hospital doctors voted this morning to allow an anesthesiologist who lost has his medical license in two states to practice medicine in the hospital.

Curbs urged on long shifts for young doctors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New limits are needed to ensure that the long hours logged by young doctors in training at hospitals do not leave them so exhausted that they make medical errors, a U.S. expert panel said on Tuesday.

Broader medical refusal rule may go far beyond abortion
The Bush administration plans a new 'right of conscience' rule that would allow more workers to refuse more procedures. Critics say it could apply to artificial insemination and birth control. The outgoing Bush administration is planning to announce a broad new "right of conscience" rule permitting medical facilities, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers to refuse to ...

Cleveland Clinic Discloses Doctors? Industry Ties
In the first such step by a major medical center, the Cleveland Clinic will announce it has begun publicly disclosing the business relationships its staff has with drug makers.

Report: Young doctors should get nap after 16-hour shift
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new report says doctors-in-training are still too tired for safety, despite some limits on their working hours. The findings come five years after a medical board first tried to cap hours that bleary-eyed medical students work, limiting them to about 80 hours a week.

Bush may broaden doctors' moral exit
The outgoing Bush administration is planning to announce a broad new "right of conscience" rule permitting medical facilities, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care workers to refuse to participate in any procedure they find morally objectionable, including abortion and possibly even artificial insemination and birth control.

Medical team treats 100 pilgrims a day
A MEDICAL team is treating about 100 Bahraini pilgrims a day in Saudi Arabia, it emerged yesterday. Around 400 patients have been examined and treated by doctors and nurses at Bahrain's Haj medical mission over the past four days.

Disciplined Doctors
Another doctor in the endocopy center scandal faces malpractice charges, while two other local doctors are disciplined by the State Board of Medical Examiners for endangering the health, safety and welfare of their patients.

Nigeria: Strike - Nma Appeals to Lasuth Doctors
Lagos ? The Executive Committee of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has appealed to the Association of Resident Doctors of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (ARD, LASUTH) to reconsider its threat to embark on a two-day warning strike.

Laguna doctors defeat dismissal order
Two doctors who worked for Calamba Medical Center 10 years ago won a Supreme Court ruling declaring their dismissal as illegal. But a former assistant postmaster was not as lucky; he lost his bid to fight off an Ombudsman ruling firing him on charges of grave misconduct and dishonesty.

Revised hours and workloads for medical residents needed to prevent
( National Academy of Sciences ) A new report from the Institute of Medicine proposes revisions to medical residents' duty hours and workloads to decrease the chances of fatigue-related medical errors and to enhance the learning environment for these doctors in training.

Local actors assist doctors in training at Loma Linda medical school
Eloyce Jacobo pretends to have diabetes, or thyroiditis, or tuberculosis, or even a heart attack -- all in the name of medical science education. "I love it," says the 52-year-old Grand Terrace resident. "It gives me the freedom to work when I can and when they need me."

Medical Residents Need More Rest To Prevent Deadly Errors: Study
Medical Residents Need More Rest To Prevent Deadly Errors: Study