Doctors protest over Bush's nomination for top legal post

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Legal bone throwing has doctors hopping mad.

Western medical practitioners are hopping mad at the looming prospect of traditional healers and pharmacists, among other health care workers, being legally empowered to diagnose and treat patients and even write sick notes. The legal bones were thrown in the form of a government gazette of 10 October this year that signalled Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's intent to introduce the Tr...

Doctors practising alternative medicine--the legal considerations.

In the United Kingdom and the United States, alternatives to western medicine have become increasingly popular in recent years. Likewise, in Hong Kong, ‘alternative medicine’ is gaining popularity, although Hong Kong has always had a major alternative to western medicine in the form of traditional Chinese medicine. Can a physician in Hong Kong incorporate alternative medicine into the practice ...

Top doctors want tougher perversity penalties.

IZINDABA 244 Leading lights in South Africa's medical fraternity are perturbed at the 'mild' sentences meted out to doctors in two high-profile kickback hearings after plea bargaining recently ended protracted legal battles. Among those prepared to speak out are Dr Kgosi Letlape, the current chairman of the South African Medical Association, Professor YK Seedat, a past SAMA president, and Profe...

Worries over legal drugs

a proposal to ban trade by Sweden and the US was defeated. The coral is harvested in the Mediterranean and elsewhere and turned into expensive jewellery in several Asian countries. The coral has no international protection, resulting in significant trade, according to the conservation group SeaWeb. Opposition to the coral trade ban was led by Japan, supported by coastal states, including Indone...