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...Emergency rooms at military hospitals have been made available for civilian use, while the government has authorised nurses to conduct medical procedures usually performed by doctors....
...About 8,400 doctors – 64 per cent of the entire number of intern and resident doctors – have joined the strike so far, according to the health ministry, squeezing emergency operations at big hospitals....
...Drafted in as an emergency hospital orderly, she strikes up a buoyant rapport with Power....
...Patients are being offered appointments that are months away and are instead turning to hospital emergency rooms, which have been overwhelmed....
...An emergency medicine physician in a small city in southern Guangdong province said he and colleagues had been told: “Death certificates can’t include ‘xinguan’ [Covid-19] these two characters.”...
...That’s why everyone under the age of 65 is routinely tested at the University of Chicago hospital emergency room — no matter why they came in — says Dr Kimberly Stanford, an ER physician....
...For every patient picked up in primary care, before emergency admission, the NHS saves £2,500....
...The WHO’s annual assembly convenes in Geneva from May 27 to decide on the final text, the proposed last step before a signing of the global accord....
...“Occasional lightheadedness is not uncommon in concussion recovery and can also be expected as a result of dehydration,” the physician said....
...The Fourth Geneva Convention relates specifically to the protection of civilians during times of war....
...In late October, an MSF emergency physician sent us a photo of the whiteboard at Al-Awda hospital. It had been wiped clean of surgical cases, leaving only this message: “We did what we could....
...Congress: The head of the Federal Aviation Administration Mike Whitaker will face questions from lawmakers about the agency’s oversight of Boeing in the wake of a 737 MAX 9 mid-air emergency....
...Envision and other physician practices have been highly criticised for “surprise billing” in which emergency room patients are hit with high charges for treatment when insurance plans do not cover the costs...
...Six years ago, he called for a “digital Geneva convention” that would involve nation states swearing off cyber attacks against civilians during peacetime....
...Leslie Turnberg Past President, Royal College of Physicians House of Lords, London SW1, UK...
...Envision Healthcare, a KKR-owned company that employs doctors who staff emergency rooms and anaesthesiology departments in hundreds of US hospitals, sued UnitedHealthcare in 2018 in a dispute over billing...
...In the talks that have taken place online and in person in Geneva, low and middle-income countries are pressing rich nations and pharma companies to go much further than they have previously done on sharing...
...Washington has ordered all non-emergency US government personnel and family members to leave Iraq....
...Lalive is representing investors in the Greensill lawsuit, while the Geneva firm has also acted on behalf of former Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili in his long-running dispute with the bank....
...A typical case is Texas where, DD’s Mark Vandevelde reports, three PE-backed companies employ physicians that staff about one-quarter of the state’s 384 emergency rooms....
...Chris Newton had only just finished his medical residency in Michigan when in 2002 he joined Emergency Physicians Medical Group (EPMG), which ran the emergency room at St Joseph’s Hospital in Ann Arbor....
...“There is a huge concentration of risk in the Swiss market,” he pointed out, noting that 50 per cent of all mortgages in the city of Geneva will be held by the bank....
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