Helping sick doctors

Helping the sick doctor: a new service.

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Do junior doctors take sick leave?

Nosocomial infections place a heavy burden on overstretched health services. An audit of junior doctors' sick leave behaviour was undertaken in 1993 and again in 2001. The object was to ascertain the level of common infectious illness and to investigate whether junior doctors were remaining at work inappropriately. The doctors were asked if any factors had influenced their decision to take sick...

1403 - 0586 Is part - time sick leave helping the unemployed ?

Using a discrete choice one-factor model, we estimate mean treatment parameters and distributional treatment parameters to analyze the effects of degree of sick leave on the probability of full recovery of lost work capacity for employed and unemployed individuals, respectively. Our results indicate that one year after the sick leave spell started, the average potential impact of part-time sick...

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.