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...Ultimately, what matters in politics is not just what you think, but how much you care....
...Anne de Bono, a consultant in occupational medicine who sits on the NHS long Covid task force, says special care is needed for workers in safety-critical roles, citing the case of a surgeon at her hospital...
...ICU consultant Dr Charlotte Summers has led the critical care surge response at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge....
...“If they have bacterial pneumonia they would normally be pretty breathless and tired,” said Dr Daniels, a specialist at UK intensive care units. “Patients with Covid-19 do not seem to get that.”...
...With the National Health Service keen to conserve its limited reserves of critical care beds, it is not a decision his medical team will have taken lightly....
...Not obstructing death Triage dilemmas do not only apply to the admission of patients into critical care....
...“But questions were then raised about why we were trying to reinvent safety-critical devices. This should not have been a job for non-specialists.”...
...They marshalled some of the first compelling evidence that smoking cigarettes dramatically increases the risk of lung cancer....
...For Mercado Libre, being in the right place at the right time has proved critical....
...This joined-up data was critical to GSK’s Salford Lung Study, with clinical investigators able to discover in near-real time when a patient’s condition had deteriorated enough to require contact with part...
...(BMJ) —————————————————————————————————————– Podcast of the week Tobacco and lung cancer Uruguay — with a cancer specialist for a president — has introduced some of the most radical tobacco controls in...
...“I don’t think the schemes are bad per se, but execution is critical,” says Ms Sinha....
...In healthcare, there are new opportunities to predict and react more rapidly to critical clinical events, resulting in better care for patients and more effective cost management....
...A few years ago, a garden design colleague of mine recounted a site visit to a garden in upstate New York where he was pitching a proposal....
...Communication is a critical factor in a patient’s quality of life....
...The higher-spending regions have more hospital beds and specialists, patients see doctors more often and get more tests, yet there seems to be little link between this and the quality of care....
...A critical care specialist, who knows how to control heart and lung machines during surgery, could earn around Rs150,000 ($3,000) per month, which is close to the India’s annual per capita GDP....
...In 2001, the American Journal of Infection Control published a study of hand-washing frequency in a critical care unit at an unidentified hospital....
...Danforth says a specialist adviser will help you decide on the “best vehicle for the mechanics of your giving”....
...I had two heart attacks and have permanent lung damage. I died three times in the operating theatre.”...
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