Doctors warn of premature move to polyclinics

Fatal flows--doctors on the move.

The movement of physicians from poor to rich countries is a growing obstacle to global health. Ghana, with 0.09 physician per thousand population, sends doctors to the United Kingdom, which has 18 times as many physicians per capita. The United States, with 5 percent of the world's population, employs 11 percent of the globe's physicians, and its demand is growing. As underscored in the article...

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors

Polyclinics and psychiatry

The preliminary review of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, led by Lord Darzi, proposed the development of ‘polyclinics’, which in the final report are referred to as ‘GP-led health centres’. Although there is considerable confusion in the literature about what it actually means, the term polyclinic will be familiar to those who have worked in the former Soviet countries of Europe (...

New Duty to Warn in Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in a case of first impression, recently addressed the duty of Pennsylvania mental health professionals to a non-patient third party.' Although the Court upheld the dismissal of the lawsuit on the pleadings prior to trial. the Court created a "duty to warn" specific, endangered third parties. The holding leaves much to be desired for mental health professionals tr...

To move or not to move.

Semaphorins were discovered 11 years ago as molecular cues for axon guidance that are conserved from invertebrates to humans. More than 20 semaphorin genes have been identified in mammals and their protein products are now known to be involved in a range of processes from the guidance of cell migration to the regulation of the immune response, angiogenesis and cancer. Plexins, either alone or i...