Medical legal consultation in neurologic practice

Legal Problems in Medical Practice

Legal Aspects of Medical Practice

IN its technical aspects medical education in the United Kingdom is traditionally amateur. Curricula conform only within the widest of guidelines; teaching methods and performances are rarely assessed; examinations are often antiquated in concept and execution and the results rarely validated; the syllabus is organised frequently with the convenience of teachers the overriding desideratum and i...

Narrative review of telemedicine consultation in medical practice

BACKGROUND The use of telemedicine has grown across several medical fields, due to the increasing number of "e-patients". OBJECTIVE This narrative review gives an overview of the growing use of telemedicine in different medical specialties, showing how its use can improve medical care. METHODS A PubMed/Medline, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus search was performed using the following keyw...

Thermography in Neurologic Practice

One kind of medical images that has been developed in the last decades is thermal images. These images are assessed by infrared cameras and have shown an exponential development in recent years. In this sense, the aim of this study was to describe possibilities of thermography usage in the neurologic practice. It was performed a systematic review in Web of Knowledge (Thompson Reuters), set in a...

Euthanasia trials in Japan: implications for legal and medical practice.

A variety of recent developments in medical technology enable physicians to prolong life, a goal long sought by the medical profession. Artificial life support, in particular, has changed the medical environment, and physicians now seem to pay more attention to prolonging life than to pain relief and other important aspects of quality of life as it relates to medical care. The perception of qua...