What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe first signs of an incipient patients' revolt against the controlled clinical trial (CCT) have begun to appear. Those are the supposedly airtight scientific studies in which patients are random ...
At least one doctor is less than enthusiastic about the fountain of youth hormone drug test being tested on patients over 60. Newcastle upon Tyne consultant endocrinologist Fredrick Clark is criti ...
Patients' rights have taken a step forward in Europe. The Declaration on the Promotion of Patients' Rights in Europe has been unanimously endorsed by 36 European nations, although the Department o ...
One 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.
