Doctors form an essential part of an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue they have a duty to participate in pandemic response due to their special skills, but these skills vary between different doctors, and their duties are constrained by other competing rights. We conclude ...
Christian Vigil, 26, an intensive care doctor, poses at the main entrance of the 12 de Octubre hospital during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Madrid, Spain, April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Juan Medina By Inti Landauro (Reuters) - For young doctors like 26-year-old Christian Vigil...
A patient is taken from an ambulance to the emergency room of a hospital in the Navajo Nation town of Tuba City during the 57-hour curfew, imposed to try to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus through the Navajo Nation, in Arizona on May 24, 2020. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Ima...
The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system
World Cancer Day: telemedicine helps doctors treat cancer patients over COVIDBy Cao Bing Share Error loading player: No playable sources found 02:16 The past year of 2020 has been particularly difficult for cancer patients, especially those who live far from hospitals and ...
Mexico Says Cuban Doctors Who Helped With COVID-19 Fight Flown Back to Cuba More MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Some 92 Cuban doctors and nurses who lent a hand to Mexico during the coronavirus pandemic in recent months have been flown home, Mexico's foreign ministry said on ...
Frank Augstein/AP/Shutterstock As the UK—including the prime minister—clapped for carers, doctors held a silent protest outside the Downing Street gates, laying a wreath for all the NHS workers who have died with covid-19. …doi:10.1136/bmj.m2188...
Community doctors in China are playing a big role amid the current tidal wave of COVID cases, trying their best to help relieve the pressure on the public healthcare system. Dou Hongyu has visited a doctor in west Beijing to see how he's been working. Beijing has recently seen a surge ...
"I was left to fend for myself from bed that first year because I did not fit the profile of who was considered high-risk," Angela Meriquez Vázquez said in her testimony to the senate. Vázquez described herself as a disabled former athlete and Long COVID patient. She was a runner fo...
One of the many challenges to conquer was the adaptation to a steadily changing working environment and the development of a proper working environment during the COVID-19 pandemic.Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate th...