Handling concerns raised about doctors: time for local changes

Concerns raised about Ontario's new regime for bariatric surgery.

Media criticism of doctors: review of UK junior doctors' concerns raised in surveys.

had a few convulsions but no impaired consciousness or other signs of severe malaria. On day 2 the parasitaemia was 4%. Treatment was changed to mefloquine, which was successful. His 4 year old brother, case 2, was febrile with 0.5% infected erythro-cytes. His symptoms resolved with atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride, and the parasites were cleared after three days. On day 28 he was again f...

Online Access to Doctors' Notes: Patient Concerns About Privacy

BACKGROUND Offering patients online access to medical records, including doctors' visit notes, holds considerable potential to improve care. However, patients may worry about loss of privacy when accessing personal health information through Internet-based patient portals. The OpenNotes study provided patients at three US health care institutions with online access to their primary care doctors...

Upsurge of Rodents’ Population in a Rural Area of Northeastern Iran Raised Concerns about Rodent-borne Diseases

Introduction: Rodents are the primary source of several zoonotic infectious diseases. The upsurge of rodents’ population in Najaf Abad Village of Nishapur County, northeastern Iran in February 2014 raised the concerns about the outbreak of diseases such as plague and tularemia. This report discusses the lessons learned from the outburst of rodents’ population in that village and rep...

Concerns raised by lung size-mismatched transplantation.

Correspondence 4 . Villiot-Danger JC , Villiot-Danger E , Borel JC , Pépin JL , Wuyam B , Vergès JS . Respiratory muscle endurance training in obese patients . Int J Obes (Lond) . 2011 ; 35 ( 5 ): 692 699 . 5 . National Institutes of Health Clinical Center . Obese patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and exercise training (OBEX1). NCT01155271. ClinicalTrials.gov . Bethesda, MD:...