What Doctors Don't Tell YouOne in five hospital outpatients leaves the consultation without understanding what is wrong with him or what his treatment is going to be, according to a survey by the Consumers' Association. ...
Doctors helping to deliver a handicapped baby might now be breaking the law. ...
Employers will soon be obliged to protect staff from illnesses associated with working long hours on computers, under new proposals adopted recently by the Health and Safety Commission. ...
Thank you for the lovely viewpoint ‘Staying with the body’ (WDDTY, vol 12 no 11). Anyone who has shared similar experiences will be touched by it.
As readers of WDDTY are only too well aware, doctors in the main don't like to be challenged, and they certainly don't like admitting their mistakes.
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The World Health Organization has issued its strongest edict on patients' rights which is likely to be taken up by consumer pressure groups around the world. ...
Re the articles (WDDTY, vol 12 no 5) on thyroxine sodium, our daughter has been prescribed this (and anhydrous levothyroxine sodium and anhydrous thyroxine sodium) from birth.
On May 6 of this year, 15 US Food and Drug Administration agents with flak jackets, backed up by a batch of county policemen with guns at the ready, surrounded the clinic of Dr. Jonathan Wright i ...
A new survey shows that US physicians do not believe that the problem of medical errors is as significant as the 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine indicates.
Last autumn Michelle Huberman, who gave birth to a daughter with Down's syndrome, initiated a £1m lawsuit against her doctor, obstetrician Yehudi Gordon, for allegedly failing to provide her wit ...
