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The article focuses on the responsibility of treating doctors with regards to providing medical options after an injury is sustained by an employee. It includes discussions on medical control, medical care, and the maximal medical improvement or when medical findings suggest permanent disability. It also discusses the importance of changing a predesignated doctor, the medical provider network provided by the employer, and the responsibility of insurance companies to its members.

A biography of Ismail Alhaj Bin Datuk Abdul Rahman, the first Malaysian Ambassador, is presented. He was born in Johor, Malaysia on November 4, 1915 and son of Abdul Rahman bin Yassin and Zahara binte Abu Bakar. He attained his collegiate studies in medicine at Melbourne University and became successful as general practitioner in Johor Bahru. His political involvements and ambassadorship are also discussed.

Chapter 37 of the book "Run to Earth: A Novel," by M. E. Braddon is presented. Victor Carrington's plans have been working out from the rich marriage that he talked about for Reginald to poisoning Douglas Dale. However, Douglas, always having dinner with Paulina Durski, is adviced by her to see a trusted doctor. She was alarmed with his paleness and thinness as compared to the previous week they have been together. Following his visit, Dr. Westbrook revealed that he is poisoned slowly.

Provides information about the ethical principles for medical research discussed during the 1964 General Assembly of the World Medical Association in Helsinki, Finland. Role of the physicians in protecting the health of various individuals; Improvement on the quality of medical care; Assessment on the results of several experimental procedures.

Most general practitioners (GP) have now become familiar with personal development plans as part of their career and practice. The personal development plans (PDP) consists of three parts. At the beginning of the year there is a planning stage, when the GP assesses his or her own strengths and weaknesses, then decides how to improve upon them. The next stage occurs throughout the year and involves documenting, all the learning opportunities and their contribution to the plan. The final stage, at the end of the year, is a reflective process. Because of that stage, the author rather likes PDP. They are a means of getting credit for all continuous work and learning that a GP goes through.

Objectives: (1) To test lists of problems in the three axes of well-being (physical, mental, and social) with the GPs' collaboration (2) To place the resulting classification in the context of other ones aiming at collecting data about psycho-social aspects of life (assessment, index and classification systems). (3) To test if GPs would be induced to record psychological and social problems more often in their everyday practice, after having been trained to look more closely at them, inter allia with the us of classification and codes. Method: The lists of problems have been initiated by the WHO Department of Mental Health and discussed at an international symposium; they were then tested on the field, first at an international level, then in Belgium. After discussion by 4 Belgian GPs' Teaching Units, they were then improved. In all surveys concerned, general practitioners were asked to collaborate in three ways: opening their usual medical records and collaborating to prospective phases, including one "test phase," i.e., a training session, recording problems with the use of coding lists, and looking for the proper code. Retrospective and prospective approaches were used both before and alter this test phase. Results: (1) The original lists of problems have been improved on the basis of the findings in medical files and in the survey. (2) A conceptual framework is presented for recording social problems, either in everyday practice (i.e., in health records) or in research settings, e.g., for social surveys. It is biaxial: domains and types of problem. (3) Training GPs for using such a coding system drastically increases the number of psycho-social problems, but only during the prospective phases. In the long run older habits prevail again; only the overall number of contacts mentioning a reason increases, together with the number of "other" reasons for encounter (requests,...). Contents: (1) Main concepts (section 1). (2) Various tools for measuring psychosocial problems and well-being (section 2). (3) New conceptual framework for a classification of psychosocial problems (§ 2,2.3). (4) Using the lists: influence on MDs' recording propensity (section 3). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This chapter discusses the foundational building blocks approach in creating a Telemedical Information Society. It can be seen that advanced imaging techniques such as virtual reality can be easily integrated. The pragmatics of defining and creating virtual environments are abstracted from the practitioner. A practitioner then has the choice, depending on the supportive hardware, on how to visualize the patient data. This chapter does not concentrate on specifics or detail use explanations. It outlines a framework for how advanced imaging techniques could be integrated into a general Telemedical Information Society. If costs are reduced, the technology will become more widespread. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on importance of general practitioners' involvement into personal aspects of their patients' lives. The widening scope of medical practice is not confined to the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disturbance. Doctors have become increasingly involved in the regulation of the more intimate and personal aspects of their patients' lives, seeking to influence their conduct of intimate relationships. Thus general practitioners (GPs) are now exhorted to take an active interest in patients' sexual behaviour, to be alert to all possible manifestations of domestic violence and to promote parenting skills. Shortly before the millennium, GPs were bombarded at the health centre with invitations to attend a "sexuality training day" on the subject of "sex in primary care." There has been some controversy among medical authorities concerned with the problem of domestic violence about whether or not all patients should be asked, as a matter of routine, whether they are currently experiencing any form of assault from their partner. If women are asked about domestic violence only if they come in with a black eye, then many instances of abuse, which may leave less conspicuous but no less profound injuries, may go unrecorded.

The article focuses on various issues related to expanding scope of general practice. Over the past decade general practitioners (GPs) have moved away from their traditional commitment to the individual patient to take on a wider role in tackling the problems of society. The treatment of drug addicts is one example of this trend, which is leading to a transformation in the nature of medical practice as GPs take on some of the concerns of the criminal justice system. The expanding scope of general practice extends into the field of mental health, a territory that has itself expanded through the annexation of more and more areas of personality and behavior under psychiatric disease labels. In the 1980's and early 1990's the author has gained some experience in the medical approach to treatment of drug addiction in general practice. The occasional heroin user would turn up, usually in a stereotypically "strung-out" condition, saying that they wanted to come off drugs and asking for a prescription for methadone. At the very time, in the mid-1990's, that the author was coming to the conclusion that prescribing methadone was not a useful way of treating drug addicts, GPs came under renewed government pressure to participate in a more comprehensive drug treatment programme.

This article focuses on fat envelope patient which means frequently consulting patient, and whose at each visit to his general practitioner a record should be made. Although these labels are never, or hardly ever, said directly to the patient, they seem to evolve within certain health professional-patient relationships. Some osteopaths have written about referred patients in an Great Britain National Health Service hospital setting often lacking commitment and motivation, ungrateful, and taking very little responsibility for their own well-being thus exposing their own notions of ideal patient behavior. It is emotionally demanding to be in a caring profession when the caring appears to fail and one has been unable to help, or one's intervention appears to have made things worse. Perhaps, for the majority of practitioners, rewards come from the satisfaction of the happy customers and their recommendations. The rate of referral of the fat envelope patient appeared to differ between the settings, being about 10 percent within the general practitioner surgery compared with possibly as high a rate as 50 percent at the natural health center.

This article focuses on a survey on discrimination against women general practitioners (GPs) occurs in general practice. A moral charge underpins these difficulties. Difference is not merely difference--it involves judgments about right and wrong difference. Some GPs feel that women and men should align themselves more clearly on one side of the line or the other. There has been an appropriate reaction against the polarization of the public-private division. Polemical writings apart, the empirical writing by GPs themselves on gender in general practice is almost exclusively quantitative. While surveys play an important role in mapping the dimensions, they pay comparatively little attention to GPs' local moral worlds. Taking a leaf from the more rounded contributions of social scientists, in this article the author offers a different perspective. Some women GPs who tried to juggle career and family responsibilities experienced no untoward difficulties negotiating part-time status and a position of respect from their partners.

The article focuses on inter-professional work with old and disabled people, primarily in community settings. Though strictly speaking they are not professional, for a number of old and disabled people voluntary organizations do provide a professional service. Workers in voluntary organizations, particularly those which have become established nationally, often have great commitment as well as access to professional and practical experience from the national network. Key workers in the community include social work professionals and therapists. Local authority home care services (HCS) have such a vital role to play in service provision, particularly to the elderly, that they must also be included. Moreover, the issue of responsibility for providing personal care in the community, and questions of defining health as opposed to social care, demand that the HCS are considered. Additional professionalism activities which have the potential for influencing the lives of old and disabled people include housing and planning. Many health professionals are involved in work with old and disabled people. In the community these include district nurses, health visitors, general practitioners, chiropodists and community psychiatric nurses. Of course, health professionals may be based in hospitals or other institutions, e.g. nursing homes, as indeed may social care professionals.

This article focuses on the importance of biomedical ethics in medical policies. A cardinal feature of ethics is the requirement that principles or codes on the basis of which a person exercises a moral choice must apply to everyone alike, independent of personal or social status. Biomedical ethics seems to embrace two concerns. One is the morality of public policy in medicine, where issues such as abortion, research on the fetus and the just allocation of scarce medical resources are recognized. A second concern is the moral behavior of individual physicians.

The article offers information regarding the implications of the legislation on decisions not to resuscitate (DNR). It mentions that numerous aspects of personhood were brought by the legislative hearings on proposed legislation on clinical uses of DNR policies. It states that the DNR legislation aims to clarify the obligations and rights of patients and physicians on cardiac-pulmonary resuscitation and DNR orders issuance.

Chapter XIII, Part II of the book "The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations" is presented. It relates that Dr. Spencer discovered that Mr. Esdaile is retiring and it happened Flora had mention it the last time to see and introduced the works of his papa in comparative anatomy. Meta brought all her housekeeping books to Flora in retun of whatever way might be most convenient.

Chapter XXV of the book "Capitola The Madcap" is presented. It narrates the event where Doctor Traverse Rocke entertained a dying patient who had been ill for nine days without any consultation from a doctor or physicians. Traverse prepared to accompany his new friend to his beautiful retreat the private madhouse, but Traverse wrote to his mother and to Clara in Virginia, and also to Herbert Greyson in Mexico, to apprise them of his good fortune.

Chapter XXVI of the book "Capitola The Madcap" is presented. It features Doctor Traverse Rocke who accompanied his old friend and old sister in crossing the borders of the beautiful lake up the river banks where he situated the "Calm Retreat." Inside the camp, Rocke met Doctor St. Jean who go with him around of visits to the patients at the end Traverse had slept.

Several charts are presented depicting Uzbekistan's healthcare from 1995-2009 including number of hospitals, number of physicians, and life expectancy at birth.

Participants at the three major meetings of the World Health Organization that the author would like to thank for their assistance in the creation of the book is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for "poisoning" is presented. It refers to the action of using poisons to kill a person. General practitioners in Great Britain often used this as a way to kill their patients, including Graham Young and Bodkin Adams. Details of how poisons affect a human body are presented. Some of the poisons used are arsenic, carbon monoxide and cyanide.

Chapter 40 of the book "Critical Decisions in Periodontology" is presented. It highlights the process to have a successful referral to a periodontist by a general practitioner. Ways on how practitioners go about deciding what should be done are offered through a decision tree presented. Commonly available additional reading is also provided for further details.

Presents a quiz to determine whether one's doctor is willing to embrace the medical consumerist movement.

The article focuses on urban jobs that can be performed by dogs other than farms and herding. It states that dogs have several detection jobs such as bedbug detection, bomb-sniffing, and cancer detection as the best way to detect a thing is to use a dog as dog's nose is much sensitive than any other man made machine. It mentions that dogs can search better for terrorists than airport scanners, find any disease in human body faster than physicians and provide patients a chance of survival.

A form titled "Resident Emergency Contact Information Form," designed for apartment residents to list information about their primary contacts and their physician, is presented.

A brief profile of Dr. Carl Christian Reindorf who was born on May 31, 1834 and became a high Gold Coast scholar, trader and evangelist, as well as historian is presented.

A brief profile of Dr. Benjamin William Quartey-Papafio who was born on June 25, 1859, the first African physician appointed to the colonial medical service and was also politician who fought for social, political and economic reforms, is presented.

Profiles Alexander Milton Ross, physician and famous Canadian conductor of the Underground Railroad in Belleville, Ontario. Career history; Interests of Alexander Milton Ross on birds; Contributions in the Canadian government.

Focuses on the medicare program created by Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas in 1959. Support of the public; Attack made by physicians against the measure.

Focuses on the career of physician Allan Roy Dafoe in Ontario. Involvement in the birth of a quintuplets; Personality of Dafoe; Public perception of Dafoe.

The article focuses on the book "The Tyranny of Health," written by Michael Fitzpatrick, a general practitioner working in London, England. The book exposes the dangers of the explosion of health awareness for both patients and doctors, using straightforward language to explain the latest health statistics and research findings. Fitzpatrick argues from his day-to-day experience in the surgery that health propaganda is having a very unhealthy effect upon the nation. Patients are made unnecessarily anxious as a result of health scares which have greatly exaggerated the risks of everyday activities such as eating beef, sunbathing and having sex. A life of abstinence and vigilance may reduce one's risks of heart disease or cancer, but it is unlikely to delay his death for more than a few months. Fitzpatrick concludes that doctors should stop trying to make people virtuous. He argues that people need to establish a clear boundary between the worlds of medicine and politics, so that doctors can concentrate on treating the sick -- and leave the well alone.