Doctors Should Prepare To Handle Angry Patients, For Own Protection And To Avoid Complaints, Says Medical Protection ...
The Medical Protection Society is marking Anger Awareness Week by offering advice to doctors who could be confronted by aggressive patients, upset at their perception of some aspect of the service they have received.

?Tree of Life? honors past doctors and medical staff
As a way to honor the lives of those doctors and staff members who saved the lives of so many, the Houston Northwest Medical Center put the ?Tree of Life? work of art on permanent display.

Medical board takes actions against three doctors
The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners on Monday suspended the licenses of two Las Vegas physicians, Dr. Stephen Seldon and Dr. Randall Foster.

Revised Hours And Workloads For Medical Residents Needed To Reduce Fatigue-Related Mistakes
A new report proposes revisions to medical residents' duty hours and workloads to decrease the chances of fatigue-related medical errors and to enhance the learning environment for these doctors in training.

Curbs urged on long shifts for young doctors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New limits are needed to ensure that the long hours logged by young doctors in training at hospitals do not leave them so exhausted that they make medical errors, a U.S. expert panel said on Tuesday.

Broader medical refusal rule may go far beyond abortion
The Bush administration plans a new 'right of conscience' rule that would allow more workers to refuse more procedures. Critics say it could apply to artificial insemination and birth control. The outgoing Bush administration is planning to announce a broad new "right of conscience" rule permitting medical facilities, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers to refuse to ...

Report: Young doctors should get nap after 16-hour shift
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new report says doctors-in-training are still too tired for safety, despite some limits on their working hours. The findings come five years after a medical board first tried to cap hours that bleary-eyed medical students work, limiting them to about 80 hours a week.

Bush may broaden doctors' moral exit
The outgoing Bush administration is planning to announce a broad new "right of conscience" rule permitting medical facilities, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care workers to refuse to participate in any procedure they find morally objectionable, including abortion and possibly even artificial insemination and birth control.

Disciplined Doctors
Another doctor in the endocopy center scandal faces malpractice charges, while two other local doctors are disciplined by the State Board of Medical Examiners for endangering the health, safety and welfare of their patients.

Nigeria: Strike - Nma Appeals to Lasuth Doctors
Lagos ? The Executive Committee of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has appealed to the Association of Resident Doctors of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (ARD, LASUTH) to reconsider its threat to embark on a two-day warning strike.

Laguna doctors defeat dismissal order
Two doctors who worked for Calamba Medical Center 10 years ago won a Supreme Court ruling declaring their dismissal as illegal. But a former assistant postmaster was not as lucky; he lost his bid to fight off an Ombudsman ruling firing him on charges of grave misconduct and dishonesty.

Revised hours and workloads for medical residents needed to prevent
( National Academy of Sciences ) A new report from the Institute of Medicine proposes revisions to medical residents' duty hours and workloads to decrease the chances of fatigue-related medical errors and to enhance the learning environment for these doctors in training.

Local actors assist doctors in training at Loma Linda medical school
Eloyce Jacobo pretends to have diabetes, or thyroiditis, or tuberculosis, or even a heart attack -- all in the name of medical science education. "I love it," says the 52-year-old Grand Terrace resident. "It gives me the freedom to work when I can and when they need me."

Iraqi doctors gain U.S. training
WASHINGTON -- Being an ear, nose and throat specialist in Iraq doesn't feel so dangerous any more for Kareem, one of 27 Iraqi medical doctors who spent the past month learning about health care in the United States.

Medical research uncovers significant benefits of yoga
The ancient practice of yoga is increasingly finding a new following -- among doctors and medical researchers who are working to prove its benefits for a variety of illnesses.

Alarm Sounded Over Exhausted Doctors
Doctors-in-training are still too exhausted, says a new report that calls on hospitals to let them have a nap.

New doctors still too tired for safety
Doctors-in-training are still too exhausted, says a new U.S. report that calls on hospitals to let them have a nap.

Doctors banned from endorsing products, services
Raphael Vassallo The Medical Council has issued a new set of regulations governing the medical profession, stipulating among others a ban on doctors making public endorsements of health-related products and services, including the indirect advertisement of private clinics on TV and other media.

Study: Doctors Still Too Tired When Treating Patients
Doctors-in-training are still too exhausted, says a new report by the Institute of Medicine.

Doctors Feel Vulnerable, Less Efficient Without Technology
Doctors who receive training in a technology-rich environment but transition away to less modern facilities to practice after graduation say they feel less able to provide safe and efficient care, a new Vanderbilt University Medical Center study shows.