Hospitals and Healthcare

With doctors twice as likely to die of suicide than the population average, three key changes are urgently needed

Arborelius, Elisabeth, and Toomas Timpka. ‘In What Way May Videotapes Be Used to Get Significant Information about the Patient-Physician Relationship ?’ Medical Teacher 12, no. 2 (1 January 1990): 197–208. https://doi.org/10.3109/01421599009006697. Why am I making notes on this? Because I found this paper while doing a hand search of referenced articles from my literature review. Inclusion…

It's all very well having rights. But what do these rights really mean when you're with your GP, in hospital or in a nursing home?

SteriDev, a Lansing, Michigan firm, is releasing the first device-specific sterile mobile device coverings. The CleanCase coverings are FDA-compliant and allow surgeons, technicians, and other clinical staff to use smartphones and tablets even in the operating room (OR).

These days, it can be quite a hassle to bring a smartphone in the OR, making it difficult to document and share details about a procedure, take quick notes about something, or simply to photograph a clinical curiosity.

Even before the pandemic, doctor-patient relationships were in serious trouble. A mobile population, a shortage of doctors, overwhelming workloads, the move towards part-time working (for many GPs, the only way to endure the pressures of the job), bigger practices, larger teams: all of this gnawed...

While the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus continues to climb in Victoria, so too does the number of victims in intensive care, and the families behind the figures are struggling with the knowledge they may never be able to say goodbye.

Abraar Karan considers a case that made him confront how much is lost or misunderstood in doctor-patient communication “Why am I here?” Mrs S looked up at me for th