Discard the placenta at your peril, pathologist warns doctors

Discard the placenta at your peril, pathologist warns doctors.

Doctors who discard the placenta after a newly born infant dies or is permanently impaired – seemingly during the birth process – could potentially be throwing away their last chance of a legitimate defence should the angry and grieving parents decide to sue. Prof. Colleen Wright, an anatomical patho logist at the National Health Laboratory Services in Port Elizabeth, had specialists and GPs pa...

Ignore Sovietology at Your Peril

he year 1997 not only marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of Demokratizatsiya but also the fifth anniversary of Yeltsin’s economic reforms. Shock therapy, as it was often called, was designed in part with advice from several Western economic theorists who specialized in economic development and transformation. Given their earlier successes with other developmental efforts as well as ...

CMPA warns doctors of risks associated with prescribing marijuana.

ACC NEWS President’s Page: Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ignore at Doctors’, Patients’ Peril

One day last year, I was examining a long-time patient whom I’ll call Mrs. Smith. She was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation about 10 years previously, and throughout the course of her treatment we’ve become friends, often chatting about our grandchildren. We both have grandsons who play Little League baseball. On this particular visit, she complained about increasing fatigue and asked whether ...

Visa changes could lead to hundreds of doctors leaving the NHS, warns BMA.

Proposed changes to visa rules could lead to hundreds of UK trained doctors leaving the NHS each year, the BMA has warned. In a letter to the Home Office Mark Porter, chair of the BMA, said that recommendations for changes to visa rules made by the Migrations Advisory Committee could harm the medical workforce. In the letter to immigration minister James Brokenshire, Porter asked whether the Ho...