A Comment on “Blue Whale Challenge: Perceptions of First Responders in Medical Profession”

A challenge to the medical profession.

Medical professionals today have been caught on the back foot. Patients no longer have blind faith in their doctors, and there are too many umpires watching. There is fear and mistrust on both sides. Paradoxically, all this also spells hope and opportunity for the discerning vaid. This hope is shared by many within the profession who wish to enter into a dialogue with patients, who do not have ...

White or Blue, the Whale gets its Vengeance: A Social Media Analysis of the Blue Whale Challenge

The Blue Whale Challenge is a series of self-harm causing tasks that are propagated via online social media under the disguise of a “game.”The list of tasks must be completed in a duration of 50 days and they cause both physical and mental harm to the player. The final task is to commit suicide. The game is supposed to be administered by people called “curators ”who incite others to cause self-...

Tobacco control in Pakistan: a challenge for the medical profession.

International medical graduates' perceptions of entering the profession in Norway.

BACKGROUND There is little knowledge available about how it feels for an international medical graduate arriving in Norway. We have investigated how the initial period as an employee of the Norwegian health services is perceived. MATERIAL AND METHOD We conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 international medical graduates who had foreign training and citizenship. They had worked as doct...

The Medical Profession and First Aid