Dr. Mailoo Visuvaratnam – Consultant Physician

Consultant Physician North Lancashire and South Westmorland Group of Hospitals

Introduction The diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma is usually made on the clinical presentation and confirmed by the estimation of noradrenaline and adrenaline, or their breakdown products, in the urine. In the presence of oliguria these tests are not possible. A patient is described who became anuric postoperatively and in whom the diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma was assisted by a plasma assay of ...

The consultant physician and the acute medical assessment unit.

greatly over the past 10 years. Since 1996 we have seen the introduction of the Calman reforms to specialist training, the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) and the new consultant contract. We have seen a change of government, bringing with it a ‘modernisation of the NHS’ and a multiplication of NHS targets. The EWTD led to a reduction in junior doctors’ hours, fragmentation of patient car...

"Dr. Kildare" stereotype undermines physician recruitment.

A though healthcare is undergoing a profound transformation, certain attitudes related to it seem set in stone. One is the lingering belief of some hospital and health network administrators that the only acceptable physician candidates are male, U.S. trained, under 45 , blond haired, and blue eyed. Client insistence on exclusionary candidate parameters is a challenge physician recruiters deal ...

Dr William Brownrigg, F.R.S.: physician, chemist and country gentleman.

Dr. Stanko Sielski (1891-1958): Physician, scientist, humanist.

UNLABELLED This work presents the results of research into the life and work of Dr. Stanko Sielski, related to his professional, scientific and humanitarian work. He was born in Gračanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) in 1891, to a family of Polish origins. He attended high school in Travnik and completed his studies of medicine in Vienna in 1919. During the First World War he served on the fron...