Law not enough to police device maker-doctor ties (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Law not enough to police device maker-doctor ties (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
U.S. law is not sufficient to police medical device companies that pay surgeons consulting fees, and give them gifts, travel and other perks that may influence medical decisions, a watchdog for the Health and Human Services Department told Congress on Wednesday.
No checks done on banned doctor (Sydney Morning Herald)
A DEREGISTERED doctor was able to illegally attend 36 obstetric patients at two South Coast public hospitals - despite being banned from the specialty five years earlier - because the NSW Health Department failed to conduct background checks on him.
UTMB presents Doctor s Dilemma’ (Galveston County Daily News)
GALVESTON Dr. C. Joan Richardson, chief of medical staff at the University of Texas Medical Branch, will join seven other UTMB faculty members and six medical and graduate students in a dramatic reading of George Bernard Shaw s The Doctor s Dilemma on Nov. 20.
Doctor thrown off Ryanair flight ‘for talking’ (Daily Telegraph)
A doctor is threatening to take Ryanair to court after he claims he was thrown off a flight for chatting during the pre-flight safety briefing.
Doctor recruitment a manageable issue for health centre (myKawartha.com)
"Efforts have been made for many years to recruit physicians… A considerable effort has been made with limited success," Doctor recruitment will be the biggest challenge for the Brock Community Health Centre, but it’s not an insurmountable one.
‘Mutilation’ doctor probe (Sydney Morning Herald)
Strike force to investigate complaints of some of the 800 women allegedly mutilated by struck-off doctor.
Doctor’s dodgy past unveiled (The Courier Mail)
THE state’s bumbling health authorities allowed a previously jailed doctor with a drinking problem to operate on 17 women without checking his past.
Botswana: Bantom, the Music Traditional Doctor (AllAfrica.com)
Ace producer and keyboard master Gavin Bantom has become known as the traditional doctor "gaxeba" of local music because of his contribution to the industry.