Doctors call for end to unsafe shift system

Doctors call for divestment from fossil fuels.

©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ, September 22, 2015, 187(13) E403 For a third year in a row, a group of eco-conscious physicians will campaign at the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) General Council Aug. 23–26 for physician associations to divest from fossil fuels and reinvest in renewable energy. The international divest–invest movement, which has been gaining momentum since ...

Implications of shift work for junior doctors.

Appeal from Chinese doctors to end violence.

End - to - End Call Admission Control in Service Guaranteed Networks ∗

A per-connection end-to-end call admission control (CAC) problem is solved in this paper to allocate network resources to an input session to guarantee its quality of service (Qos) requirements. In conjunction with the solution of the CAC problem, a traffic descriptor is proposed to describe the loss rate and the delay bound Qos requirements of the connection to be set up as well as the statist...

Suicide prevention and intervention: a call to all doctors.

Why do people take their own lives? To survive is the most basic human instinct; to take one’s own life is against this instinct. Imagine you are standing on the rooftop of a tall building and there is nothing between you and the fall to death! The normal response is fear and the step to take is to walk back. What does it take to overcome that fear and to jump down? The most important and commo...