Doctors forced to guard Baghdad hospitals after looting

Teledermatology Helps Doctors and Hospitals to Serve Their Clients

Telemedicine contributes to efficiency increase and leads to the accelerated development and use of the internet based electronic patient record. The broad use of telemedicine is hampered by rigid decision structures, slow adaptation processes and concern for its consequences. Health Management Practice (HMP) addresses these issues by developing, investigating and implementing telemedicine tool...

Doctors and Nurses at the Hospitals

Hospitals, Doctors, and the Public Interest

HOSPITALS, DOCTORS, AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST. Edited by John H. Knowles. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1965. xi, 337 pp. $8.50. This unique volume deals with many social, economic, and educational problems faced by hospitals in efforts to fulfill their responsibilities to the community and the people in families who live there. The fifteen contributors, who are leaders in medical a...

Looting and Gambling in Banking Crises∗

We construct a model of the banking firm and use it to study bank behavior and bank regulatory policy during crises. In our model, during a crisis a bank can increase the risk of its asset portfolio (“risk shift”), convert bank assets to the personal benefit of the bank manager (“loot”), or do both. Each action is socially costly. To mitigate such actions, a regulator has three policy tools: it...

Archeology and looting: preserving the record.

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