By: Martha Linden, PA, The Independent
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Nearly 4,000 new cases of mental health disorder were diagnosed last year among armed services personnel, according to figures published today.
Mental health statistics released by the Ministry of Defence showed 3,917 new cases of armed services personnel assessed to have a mental disorder [...]
Archive for the ‘Practice’ Category
Post traumatic stress rises among war zone soldiers
Posted in Editor, Men's health, Politics, Practice, RISKS, Science, Violence, Women's health, diagnosis, health, life, mental health, news, soldiers on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Muslim GP faces sack over homophobic letter
Posted in Editor, GMC, Politics, Practice, SORRY, health, life, mental health, news on October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By: Harriet Shawcross, PA, The Independent
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
A former head of the Islamic Medical Association sent a homophobic letter to a magazine for GPs, saying gay people needed the “stick of law to put them on the right path”, the General Medical Council heard today.
Dr Muhammad Siddiq was working [...]
Damning verdict on health trusts’ out-of-hours emergency care
Posted in Editor, Politics, Practice, RISKS, Science, chronic disease, diagnosis, health, life, news on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By: Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
Friday, 26 September 2008
Almost one in five health trusts are delivering poor quality care outside normal office hours, the most comprehensive investigation into urgent and emergency services has concluded.
The Healthcare Commission also found that proportion of out-of-hours calls categorised as “urgent” varied from under 4 per [...]
Moebius syndrome: The boy who will never smile
Posted in CHILDREN, Practice, Science, chronic disease, diagnosis, health, life on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
13 May 2008, The Independent.
He laughs and plays like any one-year-old. But a rare condition means Ceri Hughes won’t see her son’s face light up with joy.
“Moebius syndrome was first described in 1888 by a German neurologist called Paul Julius Moebius. It is a rare condition and although it is always obvious from birth, it [...]
Complaints against doctors
Posted in Editor, Politics, Practice, RISKS, bmj, health, life, news on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BMJ 2008;336:841-842 (19 April).
Editorials
By: Paul Kinnersley, reader, Adrian Edwards, professor, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University.
Complaints against doctors:
Could be reduced by identifying and remedying poor communication skills early on.
Clinical communication skills are at the heart of medical practice, and poor performance is an important factor in the origins of complaints [...]
Investigating perianal pain of uncertain cause
Posted in Clinical review, INFECTIONS, Practice, Research, bmj, diagnosis, health on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BMJ 2008; (16 February).
Practice by: Dr Rebecca Greenhalgh, radiology specialist registrar et al, University College Hospital, London.
Imaging plays an important role in elucidating the cause of anal pain when the diagnosis is not clinically apparent.
Endoanal ultrasound is an increasingly available, relatively inexpensive, quick and safe technique providing high resolution images of the anal sphincter [...]
