http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/doctors/ en-us Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:54:49 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2101817/posts Two NHS doctors plotted "indiscriminate and wholesale" murder with car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow Airport, Woolwich Crown Court has heard. Prosecutors say Dr Bilal Abdulla was in a car filled with explosives which rammed the terminal in June last year. He and Kafeel Ahmed, now dead, are also said to have left cars full of explosive material in central London. Dr Abdulla, 29, and Dr Mohammed Asha, 27, deny conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw QC told the court that the men were motivated by revenge for how they believed the UK was... BBC News UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2101817/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:54:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083257/posts 9/14/2008 - BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- With the assistance of Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team medics, doctors in Panjshir province treated 473 Afghan patients this week in two districts, Rohka and Shutol. Crowds of people gathered at the clinics shortly after Capt. Glenn M. Little, medical team chief, and medical technicians Staff Sgt. Janine Duschka and Tech. Sgt. Dawn Tiemann, arrived to support the medical engagements. "The PRT coordinates medical engagements, or missions where members of the medical team go with local governors and Dr. Samad Karimi, the director of Public Health, to local villages to help Afghans in... Air Force Link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083257/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:31:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064647/posts The same California Supreme Court that created a "right" to homosexual "marriage" earlier this year has now ruled that the state may force healthcare professionals to provide services that support an immoral and physically dangerous lifestyle. California's highest court was unanimous in its decision on Monday that Christian doctors may not refuse to perform artificial insemination for homosexual patients. (See "California court says no religious exemption for doctors") Attorney Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), reacts to the ruling. "This is a clear violation of the fundamental rights of individuals to live and practice their faith," he... One News Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064647/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:38:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055132/posts BAGHDAD, Aug. 1, 2008 – Many families in Iraq have a variety of ailments due to malnutrition and lack of potable water and basic care. With Army Staff Sgt. Jason Torres, a native of Miami, looking on, Dr. Yousif Yousif examines the face of an Iraqi girl who is experiencing swelling in her face during a medical operation in Baghdad's Iraqi Family Village, July 26, 2008. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. James Hunter, Multinational Division Baghdad  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. It is no different in Baghdad’s Iraqi Family Village, where residents suffer from a myriad of illnesses.... America Supports You http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055132/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 23:14:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051805/posts Dr. Dhea Mijwal Shami Maadahidi, 38, a surgeon and manager of the Rutbah General Hospital in Rubah, Iraq, checks the mouth of a child during a cooperative medical engagement in Akashat, Iraq, July 23, 2008. The Baghdad native was one of three medical specialists working with Coalition forces to provide the town with health care. During the event, surgeons and corpsmen were assisted by Iraqi doctors to treat sicknesses ranging from measles to the flu. Photo by Cpl. Ryan Tomlinson, Regimental Combat Team-5, 1st Marine Division Public Affairs. AKASHAT — Navy surgeons and corpsmen with 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion,... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051805/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:39:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050049/posts Gun regulation is not a public health issue, according to more than 80% of some 2,000 respondents to a MedPage Today poll. When the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine decried the recent Supreme Court decision overturning the District of Columbia's handgun law, they did so claiming the issue is a matter of public health. Now doctors in the trenches have weighed in with their own views. The responses from physicians who are registered members of the site was remarkbly evenly divided. Just over half (52%) said Yes, that gun control is a public health issue. But for... Medpage Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050049/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:59:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047780/posts FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa., July 18, 2008 – Medical students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences are getting a healthy dose of the challenges in providing battlefield medicine during two concurrent field exercises under way here. Air Force Staff Sgt. Lacy Johnson, a staff member at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, applies “moulage” to simulate a combat wound on Army 2nd Lt. Dan Coughlin, a first-year medical student. Photo by Air Force Tech. Sgt. Andre Nicholson  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. About 360 medical, public health and graduate-level nursing students from the... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047780/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:55:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046036/posts BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, July 15, 2008 – On a warm morning in early June, a worried Abdullah Haqim walked with his daughter into the weekly coalition medical clinic in Afghanistan’s Farah province. Six-year-old Gulzana was sick, and local Afghan doctors could not diagnose or treat the painful swelling that had engulfed her left eye. Gulzana Haqim, a 6-year-old Afghan girl, and her father, Abdullah, arrive at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, July 9, 2008. Gulzana was treated for a tumor over her eye at Craig Joint Theater Hospital. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Daniel Love, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force  (Click... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046036/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:30:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042964/posts A disabled foster child whose liver is failing has been removed from a Central Florida hospital's organ-transplant waiting list because hospital administrators fear the state's shaky child-welfare system cannot ensure he has a permanent home in which to recover. Shands Hospital in Gainesville removed the boy, 15, from a waiting list for organ recipients after administrators determined the boy's unstable living conditions make him a poor candidate for a transplant, said Nick Cox, the Department of Children & Families regional administrator in the Tampa Bay area, where the boy lives. The state's next move: appeal to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital,... Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042964/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:42:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042694/posts I’ve noted the phenomenon of Big Nanny pediatricians quizzing parents about whether they own guns before. The AMA, of course, is notoriously filled with gun-grabbing activists. Read Shawn shares another example via the Raleigh News and Observer. He e-mails: “No longer satisfied with just making sure the kids are in good health, the doctors now see fit to pry into your personal life to see if you have guns in the home.” Michelle Malkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042694/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 01:16:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042476/posts Plummeting Reimbursement Rates Have Some Doctors Looking for a Way Out By AUDREY GRAYSON ABC News Medical Unit RSS For the past four years, Dr. Heather Tipsword has owned a family practice clinic that primarily treats Medicaid and Medicare patients in Oklahoma City. As many of her friends and family were looking forward to Fourth of July celebrations this past weekend, Tipsword was anxiously looking forward to another event altogether: Congress' meeting on the Monday after the holiday weekend to discuss some kind of fix to the scheduled 10.6 percent Medicare reimbursement cut. For many doctors, low Medicare and Medicaid... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042476/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:36:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024991/posts When Magen David Adom Chairman Dr. Noam Yifrach told Foreign Ministry officials that he had received an entry visa for Indonesia, he was told that entering the country wouldn't be the problem. "They told me, 'We're sure you'll be able to go in,'" he said with a smile. "It's getting back out that we're concerned about." Indonesia, which is home to the largest Muslim population in the world, has no official ties with Israel, and contact between the two countries, while not completely unheard of, is certainly rare. But that didn't stop Yifrach and MDA coordinator to the Red Cross... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024991/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 21:27:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012302/posts City: Sacramento, CA Two closely-watched cases involving the conscientious rights of doctors and pharmacists have been scheduled for argument within the next few weeks. Pacific Justice Institute filed an amicus brief last week with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Stormans, Inc. v. Selecky, where pharmacists are seeking protection from a Washington law requiring them to dispense the "Plan B" abortifacient drug. A lower federal court ruled in favor of the pharmacists, allowing them to refer patients to other pharmacists who do not have moral objections to selling the drugs. The court cited a lack of... The Pacific Justice Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012302/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 03:08:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008573/posts U.S. medicine is in the middle of a cultural revolution, as young physicians intent on balancing work and family challenge the assumption that a doctor should be available to treat patients around the clock. Walter Cheng, 32 years old, is in the profession's new guard. Upon graduating from the Johns Hopkins... he bristled at the notion espoused by some senior physicians that a doctor should put medicine above all else. "...I don't really want to be that kind of doctor... My family is as important, if not more important, than my career." That philosophy influenced Dr. Cheng's job search... He... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008573/posts#comment Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:06:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2006202/posts The utter horror of an abortion, and its moral magnitude, has increasingly caused Medical Doctors in Italy to refuse to engage in the brutal practice. May their refusal spread among their colleagues throughout the world and help to hasten the end of this barbaric practice. LifeSite News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2006202/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:52:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994760/posts 3/31/2008 - BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- Approximately 20 deployed military doctors, U.S. civilian doctors and Iraqi doctors gathered at the Air Force Theater Hospital to share information about operations at their respective hospital facilities and discuss and how they could work to be more interoperable here March 24 and 25. The Joint Theater Trauma System conference addressed how medical staff members could improve the delivery of care, and ultimately continue to decrease morbidity and mortality in Iraq among servicemembers and civilians, said Lt. Col. (Dr.) George Costanzo, a Joint Theater Trauma System Surgeon deployed from Moody Air Force... Air Force Link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994760/posts#comment Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:21:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1989507/posts Doctors (A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000. (B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000. (C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. Statistics courtesy of U.S.Dept of Health Human Services. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now think about this: Guns (A) The number of gun owners in the U.S is 80,000,000. (Yes, that's 80 million) FBI Stats http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1989507/posts#comment Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:04:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987621/posts MEDINA NY: Doctor’s office searched Hassan Medical targeted by State Attorney General’s office By NICOLE COLEMAN Investigators with the New York State Attorney General’s Office raided a Gwinn Street family physician’s office during patient visiting hours Friday. Wearing official jackets and golden badges, they arrived in multiple SUV trucks at Hassan Medical Group PLLC, 1038 Gwinn St., Medina sometime Friday morning. At least five State Attorney General officials remained at the office throughout the day probing the employees with questions and apparently looking through records. None were able to confirm the reason for their presence or whether they were sent... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987621/posts#comment Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:30:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987231/posts WASHINGTON, DC, March 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt today expressed disappointment in a new policy put forth by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ( ACOG ) which mandates that doctors refer for abortions. He also called on the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology ( ABOG ) to reject this policy and protect the conscience rights of physicians. In a letter sent to ABOG Executive Director Dr. Norman Grant today asking for clarification, Secretary Leavitt notes, "It appears that the interaction of the [ABOG Bulletin for 2008 Maintenance of Certification] with the... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987231/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:06:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982674/posts LONDON - A patient was told there was no reason why he couldn't have surgery in a hospital, despite the smell caused by a dead rodent trapped in the building's ceiling. Andrew Cowper was due to have an operation at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital in Hertfordshire when staff "were made aware of a dead rodent in the single storey unit's roof space," the hospital said in a statement. The hospital said its experts concluded that the dead animal was outside the operating theater and posed no risk. But "despite being told that the trust's infection control experts had stated... Reuters via Yahoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982674/posts#comment Sun, 9 Mar 2008 00:45:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981641/posts Col. Ryan Kuhn, from Clarks, Neb., deputy commanding officer for the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, gives a young boy a soccer ball March 4 in Jisr Diyala. Photo courtesy of Task Force Marne. FOB HAMMER — Col. Ryan Kuhn, deputy commanding officer of the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, met with Hussein Gazi Zaydan, head of dentistry for the Mada’in Qada, March 4 in a hospital in Jisr Diyala. Kuhn, from Clarks, Neb., and Zaydan discussed ways to increase awareness of improved security in the Mada’in Qada, the 3rd HBCT’s area of operation, to attract new dentists and medical... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981641/posts#comment Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:44:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978878/posts In coming weeks, private audit companies will begin scouring mountains of medical records. Their mission: Determine if health care providers erred when billing Medicare and require them to return any overpayments to the federal government. The auditors will keep a tidy percentage for their services. The contractors have shown they're pretty good at their work. In just three years, they've returned more than $300 million to the federal government -- and that's just from three states. That experiment is winding down. But a larger, national program will soon take its place. The rollout of "recovery audit contractors" will be gradual.... AP via Yahoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978878/posts#comment Sat, 1 Mar 2008 18:05:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976782/posts Zainab Najy holds her daughter, Noor, at the Forward Operating Base Delta medical facility before the infant had a procedure to rectify her prolapsed rectum. The 8-month-old was born with eight inches of her rectum outside of her body and with bladder exstrophy. Noor received the first of three treatments to repair her rectum, Feb. 8. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Stacy Niles, Multi-National Division-Central. FOB DELTA — U.S. military doctors recently began the process of treating a potentially life-threatening condition for Noor, an 8-month-old Iraqi baby girl. Doctors from the 948th Forward Surgical Team (FST), from Shelbyville, Ind., performed... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976782/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:44:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973666/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A national organization for pro-life OBGYNS is challenging the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) over a new policy saying all doctors, including those who are pro-life, should refer women to abortion centers. The American Association of ProLife Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) objects to the guidelines.ACOG released the position statement last year entitled "The Limits of Conscientious Refusal in Reproductive Medicine."The paper targets pro-life physicians, insisting that doctors who object to doing abortions should refer patients to physicians who will do them.ACOG also requests that pro-life doctors move their practices closer to abortion businesses... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973666/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:34:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968911/posts WHEN Sue MacKinnon heard a doctor at a St. James clinic was accepting new patients, she jumped at the chance to find a physician close to home. MacKinnon went to the clinic and filled out a form detailing her medical history, including her Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol and chronic sleep disorder. Weeks later, MacKinnon found out she didn't make the cut -- the physician rejected her as a patient because of her health troubles. "I got a letter saying that I had too many medical problems," said MacKinnon, 51. "I was too complicated to take." According to... Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968911/posts#comment Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:39:25 GMT