Medical women: Perspective from the victorian medical profession

The changing medical profession: an international perspective

But Parke, as medical officer, was fighting a losing battle. Attention to hygiene and the distribution of quinine tablets did nothing to prevent most members of the expedition-including Parke and Stanley-falling ill on several occasions. Stanley was close to death at one stage, while Parke's companion, Major Jameson, died of blackwater fever. Deaths were even more frequent among the African bea...

Unsuitable cases: the debate over outpatient admissions, the medical profession and late-Victorian London Hospitals.

In 1836 a meeting of the nascent British Medical Association (BMA) expressed concern over the "vast amount of gratuitous medical assistance" offered by London's voluntary hospitals.' Seventeen years later, the British Medical Journal printed Edward Crossman's presidential address to the Bath and Bristol branch of the BMA, which highlighted the issue as one of professional concern.2 In the inter...

Medical colleges summary of biomedical engineering profession—Luzhou Medical College in the perspective of biomedical engineering profession

This paper expounds professional characteristics of biomedical engineering in our school, and analyses some problems lying in it, emphatically discusses advantages and the problems combining biomedical engineering with the medical courses in order to offer targeted solutions. It summarizes the results and problems so as to provide reference value to a new major.

Greed and the medical profession.

O rganised medicine is not giving proper attention to the disturbing presence in the profession of a universal human trait: greed. Perhaps doctors' greed is less of a problem in Britain where an estimated 70% of the doctors are generalists, and reimbursement in the main is controlled by the national health system. Not so in the United States where 70% of doctors are specialists and an open heal...

Violence against the medical profession