Covid restrictions across Europe are bringing a stuttering end to a costly second wave and with it the recognition that the world will be living with SARS-CoV-2 in some form for years to come. In the UK, more than 100 000 covid related deaths have been recorded on death certificates,1 more than 30 000 of them in January alone, the second highest monthly death toll of the pandemic.
Learn MoreA developer can be a developer in any industry. Being a developer in health care means the betterment and the improvement of human lifeI'm happy to say that the tools that I've helped create in this organization are in use in our hospitals that puts my mind at ease and that I know that the company is using the best to care for patients.
Learn MoreBest friends Andi, Karen, Danni and Sabrina navigate the ups and downs of their love lives, careers and friendship while they each search for their Mr. Right. go to show
Learn MoreArtificial intelligence (AI) aims to mimic human cognitive functions. It is bringing a paradigm shift to healthcare, powered by increasing availability of healthcare data and rapid progress of analytics techniques. We survey the current status of AI applications in healthcare and discuss its future. AI can be applied to various types of healthcare data (structured and unstructured).
Learn MoreA heterogeneous private sector dominates healthcare provision in many middle-income countries. In India, the contemporary period has seen this sector undergo corporatisation processes characterised by emergence of large private hospitals and the takeover of medium-sized and charitable hospitals by corporate entities. Little is known about the operations of these private providers and the
Learn MoreIntroduction: Emergency department (ED) attendances and subsequent hospital admissions are rising in the United Kingdom. The reasons for this are unclear but may relate to recent changes in primary care and public perception. The actions taken by patients or their relatives before emergency hospital admission, the reasons for these actions and their outcome were determined. Methods: Adult
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Learn MoreConcepts such as disease and health can be difficult to define precisely. Part of the reason for this is that they embody value judgments and are rooted in metaphor. The precise meaning of terms like health, healing and wholeness is likely to remain elusive, because the disconcerting openness of the outlook gained from experience alone resists the reduction of first-person judgments (including
Learn MoreDuring the Vietnam War, Long Binh Post was the U.S. Army’s largest base located in the former South Vietnam. It was situated between Bien Hoa, the location of a large American airbase, and Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The Geography and Map Division holds a map from the war that was printed and created by the 66 th Engineer Company (known as the “Topo Corps”).
Learn MoreMost moral dilemmas in medicine are analysed using the four principles with some consideration of consequentialism but these frameworks have limitations. It is not always clear how to judge which consequences are best. When principles conflict it is not always easy to decide which should dominate. They also do not take account of the importance of the emotional element of human experience.
Learn MoreThe specialist training in general practice takes at least three years to complete. This includes 18-to-24 months as a speciality registrar in a range of hospital roles, such as geriatric medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology or paediatrics, followed by another 12-to-18 months as a GP speciality registrar in general practice.
Learn MoreObjective To explore the subjective experience of living with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Design A qualitative study of in-depth interviews using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Setting A memory clinic in Malmö, southern Sweden. Participants A purposive sample of five male participants with DLB between the ages of 78 and 88 years and disease duration of 1.5-7 years.
Learn MoreGeneral practice as a career A career in general practice offers enrichment, reward, financial security, the opportunity for personal and professional development, the opportunity for a diverse experience in practising medicine, and collegiality.
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Learn MoreThe second world war brought the world to an apogee of mass murder, with widespread killing of military personnel and civilians; the indiscriminate aerial bom of cities such as London, Dresden, and Tokyo; and the detonation of single bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These nuclear bombs caused some 200000 deaths immediately and hundreds of thousands of injuries, many resulting in death in
Learn MoreDec 11, · Kyle Sue explores whether men are wimps or just immunologically inferior “Man flu” is a term so ubiquitous that it has been included in the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries. Oxford defines it as “a cold or similar minor ailment as experienced by a man who is regarded as exaggerating the severity of the symptoms.”1 Since about half of the world’s population is male, deeming male
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