Hints and tips:
...Jewish volunteers who attend attack sites to ensure k’vod hamet (respect for the dead) and Livnat Wieder, a lead social worker at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital....
...“I remember once a doctor telling me that it was as if [Colin] had one skin too few....
...The book spans the period from David’s arrival in hospital until his burial after Christmas. It has an immediacy that is not born of long reflection and it is all the better for it....
...Patients are dying while their families search in vain for hospital beds. Supplies of oxygen and medicines are running low, leading to robberies of drugs from hospitals....
...“But for a long time we assumed there was no room for it in the workplace.” A few years ago I took gentle issue with an internal job advert seeking candidates who “exuded kindness”....
...Doctors are looking for a suitable donor for a full transplant, who has to be both registered to donate and brain-dead....
...The protest for black lives may finally be taking off but black people have been fighting this battle alone for far too long....
...For as long as anyone can remember, cleaners at Tokyo’s 179 metro stations have assiduously sanitised each escalator handrail twice daily....
...Hospitals have been asked to defer elective surgery....
...After five weeks cooped up on a bus and trying to exert discipline on a prime minister not noted for his iron self-control, Mr Johnson’s press chief Rob Oxley flipped on Wednesday, muttering “for f**k’s...
...Her father was a doctor, her mother a journalist, and she had a younger sister. Roš did well at school, skied for the national youth team and was a serious dancer....
...“When we were working at the plant, we were told to use this mask to protect us from the poisonous gases,” said K Somasundaram, who worked at the plant for 17 years, brandishing a hefty 3M respirator....
...Cardiff Garcia You’ve been a health economist for a very long time....
...Jeff Sonnenfeld, a management professor at Yale, believes so, and argues that Theranos is part of a long history of “medical hucksterism” in the US, where people are always looking for “hope in a bottle”...
...Initially doctors succeeded in saving his eye, but following an infection it was later removed. He now has an artificial left eye....
...Which makes us wonder if American economists and policymakers are so busy worrying about the prospects of patients abusing the system, that they overlook the bad incentives created for doctors and hospitals...
...Recent work – “some of the most satisfying I have ever done” – has been for hospitals....
...Public hospitals and groups providing TB treatment using government-provided drugs ran out of the medicine used to treat children months ago, forcing some doctors to resort to the risky practice of cutting...
...Hospitals, for example, fear they may face lower reimbursement rates to help pay for the reforms. Doctors complain about the absence of reform to the US’s malpractice laws....
...Doctors have long known that vitamin D promotes healthy bone growth and severe deficiency causes rickets but researchers have only recently become aware of the far-reaching health effects of inadequate vitamin...
...A financial arrangement known as “knock for knock”, in which hospitals and universities did not charge each other for the time NHS consultants spent on research or academics spent treating patients, was...
...That starts with reforming the way we compensate our doctors and hospitals....
...In this macho world, women’s lives have long been constrained....
...As for Dr Harold Lancer of Beverly Hills, he is about to launch his own line, but the dermatologist favoured by Hollywood’s elite doesn’t dismiss the old faithfuls....
...He was transferred to the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability for rehabilitation and assessment of the possible long-term deficits of his severe brain injury....
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