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A Cuban doctor waiting for asylum in the United States has become the only full-time physician at a makeshift encampment for 2,500 migrants in Mexico.
One patient died, while another was charged a large sum of money for a procedure with no proper therapeutic basis, the tribunal found
Use these 5 questions to ask your doctor to make sure you end up with the right amount of care — not too much and not too little.
When should a patient consider themselves fully healed? Oncologist Mark A. Lewis explains that treating a health problem doesn't necessarily mean fixing it.
Premedical students should begin developing clinical skills now.
Recording your doctor's appointment could become the next frontier for quality health care, write Amelia Hyatt and Ruby Lipson-Smith.
Working as a doctor is draining—emotionally, intellectually, and physically. Doctors bear the burden of some of the most painful aspects of patients’ problems, they witness trauma, and they regularly deal with loss. And no one benefits if doctors break down every time they have to give bad news to a patient.
To survive a lifetime in medicine doctors must learn techniques to cope with their job. They need to stay emotionally present without becoming distant. They must prevent overidentification, remain patient centred, and maintain professional boundaries.
Some of these techniques are practical: time management, delegation, safety netting, and “housekeeping.” …
If you've ever felt like a fraud at work, you're not alone — even highly-experienced surgeons struggle with impostor syndrome. But they also know how to manage it.
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As a Public Health Service officer and later a university professor, he chronicled health-care inequities and his own experience as a cancer patient in his early 30s.
Harassment, discrimination and other mistreatment is leading to burnout among female doctors, a new NEJM study says.
When medical student Dinesh Palipana was left a quadriplegic after a horrific car accident, he was told he would never become a doctor. Now he’s Queensland’s first quadriplegic doctor at a busy hospital.
Everyone suffers decision fatigue, even physicians.
The AGPT Program is the leading training program for medical graduates wishing to pursue a career in General Practice in Australia.
There are 1,500 new training places available on the AGPT Program each year. Applicants can apply for a training place through their preferred college/s; the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).
Rebecca Black worried her husband's life was at risk from depression but he feared the stigma of seeking help. It's a story medical professionals know all too well.
Allegations a senior Queensland doctor sexually harassed female staff including claims of inappropriate touching, bullying and negligence will be referred for investigation, Health Minister Steven Miles says.
It would be easy to look at a photo from the 1980s and conclude that things have changed. Many have not.
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