Congenital heart defects are the most common of all birth defects. But if your child is diagnosed with one, it feels like you’re entering strange, uncharted territory. Instead of welcoming your newborn to a cozy nursery at home, you’re glued to the hospital, immersed in a crash course on an unfamiliar condition such as ventricular […]
Glasses in the mouth: An elderly woman looks confused and is talking about washed out – a stroke it is not
The older lady comes in the company of her son to the emergency room. Tüdelig his mother had become, somehow standing next to himself, according to the son. And also the older lady reported complaints: In your right Hand, you don’t have so much power. Your it is difficult the buttons of her blouse to […]
Clarifying Massage: A doctor risked a cardiac arrest, in order to save a patient
Tanned, cheerful, and with sports bag – a Mittsiebziger comes in the emergency room of a hospital. The doctors are surprised: The colleagues, in which the man was previously in treatment, had you reported the Patient had been revived. Typically, such patients are seriously ill and are often in an artificial coma. But not this […]
Doctors’ row over pensions ‘is putting lives in danger’
Doctors’ row over pensions ‘is putting lives in danger’ as cancer patients are being forced to wait weeks for scan results Cancer patients wait weeks for results as doctors cut hours over pension crisis Report says waiting times increased from one to six weeks at many hospitals Top radiologists say lives are being put in […]
The role of family doctors in advanced therapies
A recent study conducted jointly by the Tissue Engineering Research Group of the Department of Histology and the family medicine Unit of the University of Granada (UGR) has highlighted the conceptual, attitudinal and procedural profile of resident hospital doctors specialising in family medicine in relation to advanced therapies. According to the European Medicines Agency, cell […]
Doctors Told This Woman Her Mole Looked ‘Just Fine.’ Then She Was Diagnosed With Melanoma
An occasional tiny mole or freckle is usually no reason to be alarmed. But one woman’s small blemish turned out to be a deadly form of skin cancer. Last June, Megan DiDio, a 22-year-old from Red Bluff, California, noticed that a mole on her left cheek began to look abnormal. Because of her fair complexion, DiDio always took […]
Girl, nine, survives her cancer doctors dismissed as an ear infection
Girl, nine, survives her inoperable cancer doctors dismissed as an ear infection after undergoing proton beam therapy in the US Caroline Brown had an earache, weight loss, and lack of energy over four months Then seven, a stage-four tumour was eventually found close to her brain She had proton beam therapy in the US for […]
Doctors are calling for up to 40 Euro: Who skipped a doctor’s appointment, you must pay a fine
Patients who do not appear to a doctor’s appointment, should not have to pay a cancellation fee, find a lot of Doctors. A no-show for many practices a disturbance of the processes and even fees default. But how right these charges are? 600 million appointments annually Physicians in Germany. Up to 30 percent of these […]
How to create health care centaurs—half doctors and half managers
If hospital doctors around the world often struggle to become the half-professionals and half-managers that modern healthcare organizations need, the main responsibility is not their resistance to change, but the lack of effective support from the organization, according to a study by Marco Sartirana (CERGAS, Bocconi University), Graeme Currie (Warwick Business School), and Mirko Noordegraaf […]
Doctors Want Parents to Give Toddlers Simple Toys — Not Tech — This Year
Holiday shopping is hard, and that is particularly true when you have children. I mean, with so many options, how does one choose? But if you are the parent of a young child, you may want to rethink your list because, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the best toys are traditional and (wait […]