Junior Doctors Committee has achieved much recently

Junior Doctors' Hours

Pragmatic message to junior doctors.

Although several studies described the experience of doctors in their first postgraduate years, few shed the light on the ethical issues encountered by them. These doctors face a broad range of 'everyday' ethical challenges, from breach of confidentiality to truth-telling or improper informed consent. The daily ethical issues faced by junior doctors are not as dramatic as the major issues learn...

Electrocardiograph interpretation by junior doctors.

The object of this study was to assess the ability of junior doctors in the accident and emergency department to detect electrocardiographic (ECG) abnormalities. The ECG's performed in this department were monitored over a 4 week period. The initial diagnosis by the accident and emergency doctor was compared with the report from the cardiologist on 126 ECG's which showed abnormalities. The erro...

Major risk factors and coronary heart disease: much has been achieved but crucial challenges remain.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) morbidity, disability and mortality remain high in the U.S. and constitute a major challenge to medical science and public health. Annual economic costs (direct and indirect) of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in this country in 2001 are estimated to exceed $298.2 billion (1). Over the last half-century, a remarkable pattern has been observed in trends of the CHD epid...

Policy Reforms Affecting Agricultural Incentives: Much Achieved, Much Still Needed

For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic welfare and inhibit agricultural trade and economic growth. They almost certainly add to inequality and p...