Tag: doctors
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Midwifery. Witch hunts. Men’s prejudice. Medicine & dogmatism.
The first clear evidence of clinical benefit from hand hygiene came from Semmelweis, working in the Great Hospital in Vienna in the 1840s. The hospital had two obstetric departments, and women were admitted alternately, whatever their clinical condition, to one or the other. In the first, they were attended by medical students who moved straight…
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Brain "dead" and the Industry of Transplants...
Brain dead is not necessarily... “dead”! The fact is that the criteria for "death" based on "the death of the brain" were invented by a committee at Harvard (hence the "Harvard Criteria", based on 0 experiments by the way) the members of which had relations to organ transplantation. And today these criteria are used to support a multi-billion dollar industry…
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Nigeria, doctors, death.
Western doctors are once more killed in Nigeria. [1] We seem baffled by such killing but the reason is quite simple. Would you accept someone breaking into your house in order to help you?
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How doctors choose to die
People die. And even if we do not think of it too much, even doctors die! But how do they treat the possibility of death? It is surprising to see that when faced with a terminal illness, medical professionals, who know the limits of modern medicine, often opt out of life-prolonging treatment. Years ago, Charlie,…
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