Helping refugee doctors

North Korean refugee doctors' preliminary examination scores

PURPOSE Although there have been studies emphasizing the re-education of North Korean (NK) doctors for post-unification of the Korean Peninsula, study on the content and scope of such re-education has yet to be conducted. Researchers intended to set the content and scope of re-education by a comparative analysis for the scores of the preliminary examination, which is comparable to the Korean Me...

Support the volunteer doctors helping the world's refugees.

It’s all too easy to feel helpless about the ongoing plight of the refugees crossing Europe during 2015. In the most recent development thousands of men, women, and children are stranded near the town of Idomeni, on the border of Greece and Macedonia. The charity Doctors of the World aims to meet the serious medical and emotional health needs of all excluded people and is working in almost ever...

Helping to stop doctors becoming complicit in torture.

Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics.

Many doctors, patients, journalists, and politicians alike do not understand what health statistics mean or draw wrong conclusions without noticing. Collective statistical illiteracy refers to the widespread inability to understand the meaning of numbers. For instance, many citizens are unaware that higher survival rates with cancer screening do not imply longer life, or that the statement that...

Helping doctors become better doctors: Mary Lobjoit—an unsung heroine of medical ethics in the UK

Medical Ethics has many unsung heros and heroines. Here we celebrate one of these and on telling part of her story hope to place modern medical ethics and bioethics in the UK more centrally within its historical and human contex.