THE career structure of the medical profession in Britain is an important stimulus of the emigration of doctors and an effective deterrent to their return. This is one of the conclusions reached by an interview board sent by the Ministry of Health to the United States and Canada last October ...
Complaints against doctors. Br Med J 1973; 2 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.2.5869.729 (Published 30 June 1973) Cite this as: Br Med J 1973;2:729 Child abuse Article Related content Article metrics Article usage Article metrics provide readers and authors with an indication of ...
Historically, it was up to regulators to take complaints and decide whether a doctor was fit to practice. While the doctor’s patients are unlikely to be notified of public orders for treatment or monitoring, the information may be available on medical board websites to those who seek it out...
He frequently ordered blood tests and X-rays, and repeatedly referred her to specialists for even minor complaints. Even when tests came back negative, more were ordered, and she was hospitalized as prevention when she developed a cold. She had as many as 25 doctor visits during one six-...
but Vance agreed to have her name published. According to the Atlanta newspaper, sexual misconduct is tolerated to one degree or another in every state in the nation. Physician-dominated medical boards give their peers second chances, hospitals fail to report patient complaints and prosecutors dismis...
Using the transactional model of physician compassion [20] as a frame, a clinician’s expression of compassion care relies on complex interactions among clinician, patient, and environmental and system factors. A physician feeling threatened by workplace or patient complaints or distracted by personal...
But their dream was never realized beyond the initial stages, in part because the surgeon they planned to hire turned out to have a litany of serious malpractice complaints against him—and later ended up in prison. More importantly, TAO was run entirely on the labor and ingenuity of trans ...
Do good doctors need to worry that the hospital, the medical board, or federal prosecutors might come for them? All doctors are under scrutiny by the medical board, which will probably be involved eventually in any kind of question about a doctor. AAPS has received complaints about a...
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there’s a person who has thought of that surgery every day since then. Chief Kim clarifies that Hye-jung can’t sue even if the truth is revealed, since it’s past the statute of limitations. Hye-jung knows this, but she also knows that punishment doesn’t have to be through the la...