Earlier in the year I delivered one of these talks, on the topic of the madness of George III. The most memorable presentation during my year on the scheme concerned a patient who came to the attention of the authorities after a fire at his digs. He was an Australian national, not known...
it depends a lot on the day, but from a high level, I coordinate with our local antibiotic stewardship teams that each of our hospitals to try to identify kind of the common problems facing everyone and try to take that and come up with the systematic...
During the influenza epidemic of 1918, quarantine centers and emergency military hospitals like this one in Camp Funston, Kansas, were constructed at various outposts throughout the U.S. A third of the world's population was infected, and at least 50 million died (675,000 in the U.S. al...
Recruitment occurred between April 1, 2017 and January 31, 2019 both pre- and postnatally across Adelaide and Port Pirie in South Australia, Bunbury in Western Australia and Gold Coast, Queensland. Pregnant women were approached at Adelaide public hospitals while waiting for their antenatal appointmen...
Those who keep the hospitals and clinics from collapse have often gone without a holiday for two years or more and manage on salaries ranging from [pounds sterling]40 a month for a junior nurse to [pounds sterling]75 a month for a sister. It makes them an easy target for the NHS, and...
This was supposed to be our admittance ticket, our way of building relationships with local hospitals and health authorities. They are now mandated to see what is happening with the health of their communities and devise strategies to deal with these issues. Food insecurity is a significant portio...
Gibraltar as a way to find a more stable and professional working environment. Not only are they drawn to the peninsula’s Mediterranean way of life with a border that they can easily cross as many times as they wish, they also thrive on the “Britishness” of living and working in ...
"The reality was that we had an awful large number of staff who work in our medical schools, who actually are employed by health boards of the hospitals in the cities that our schools are in. And so they put down their primary email address, which in many cases is the hospital address...
During the influenza epidemic of 1918, quarantine centers and emergency military hospitals like this one in Camp Funston, Kansas, were constructed at various outposts throughout the U.S. A third of the world's population was infected, and at least 50 million died (675,000 in the U.S. al...
Meanwhile, it is the residents near the mines that must pay the tax on their environment and health. Occasionally the sulphuric acid used in the mines seeps into the ground water, turning their tap water blue and sending hundreds into the hospitals. Residents complain of respiratory infections fr...