DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: Hip operation rationing is so cruel, it makes people like my gran suicidal Until a hip starts hurting, you don’t appreciate quite how much you depend on it to function. As your joint becomes increasingly worn or damaged, everything becomes painful. Walking hurts. Sitting hurts. Standing up hurts. Even lying […]
Shortening trainee doctor hours hasn’t harmed patients
When reforms shortened working hours for U.S. doctors-in-training, some worried: Was that enough time to learn the art of medicine? Would future patients suffer? Now a study has answers, finding no difference in hospital deaths, readmissions or costs when comparing results from doctors trained before and after caps limiting duties to 80 hours per week […]
DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: When it’s good to neglect your child
DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: When it’s good to neglect your child and why mollycoddling them stops them coping with life Our obsession with cleanliness is making our children sick. It seems a paradox, doesn’t it, that in an attempt to keep youngsters healthy by eliminating germs, we’re making them ill? Research this week showed […]
At Leipzig’s University hospital, New Gen tested:-therapy in a cancer patient
You should extend the life expectancy significantly or even lead to cures: a new Gene therapy against cancer. Now she came for the first Time at the University hospital of Leipzig, a – to a patient with cancer of the lymph nodes. The therapy have to beat him, and report to the Doctors. At the […]
Life after suicide — for an ABC News correspondent
James Longman, a successful foreign correspondent for ABC News, is in a club no one wants to belong to: suicide survivors. “There’s been a lot of secrecy in my family about it. This is not something that people want to talk about now, let alone all these years,” Longman told Dr. Jennifer Ashton on her […]
This Man Was Circumcised By Mistake When He Went to the Doctor to Get His Bladder Checked
Just about everyone knows Miley Cyrus’ famous lyric, “Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has those days.” Yeah, it’s super inspiring and all, but some people who should not take comfort in Miley’s motto. I’m looking at you, doctors. Cue the story of a British man who went into the hospital to have his bladder checked—but instead left with a circumcised penis because doctors […]
Doctor SIMON FISHEL questions the ethics behind new medical advances
Babies made by robots, the menopause delayed until 70 and human weaknesses eradicated: Top IVF doctor SIMON FISHEL reveals these advances are now becoming reality… but at what ethical cost? What would you think if I told you that some day soon, robots will perform IVF? Or that we’ll be able to take cells from […]
Paging Doctor Patrick Dempsey – The Grey’s Anatomy Annual Check-up
Going to the doctor is nobody’s favorite thing to do or else it poses a scare that involves your life or someone that you know. Patrick Dempsey, a TV medical professional who played 12 years on the series Grey’s Anatomy has taken his love for medicine off the screen. During an interview, the actor “out of nowhere” asked […]
U.S. Doctor Released From Omaha Hospital After Ebola Monitoring
MONDAY, Jan. 14, 2019 — An American doctor who was monitored for 21 days after possible Ebola exposure did not develop the deadly disease and has been released from the Nebraska Medicine-Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, officials say. The unidentified doctor’s possible exposure to Ebola occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is […]
DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: The tricks to help you keep your promises
DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: The tricks to help you keep your promises January 11 — yesterday — was the day when, statistically speaking, people are most likely to have given up on their New Year resolutions. From a psychological perspective, this make sense. The human brain doesn’t like change. Most of us can make […]