Zimbabwe s public sector doctors temporarily return to work

How Can Doctors Help Their Patients to Return to Work?

F or most patients, work remains an important part of life. However, patients with chronic diseases often encounter diffi culties upon returning to work after an episode of illness [1]. Helping to reintegrate patients into their workplace should, therefore, be an important treatment goal for every doctor. However, in a recent review of back pain treatment, we found that patients were dissatisfi...

The work of sector doctors in Leningrad.

Official pronouncements about the organisation of Soviet medical care frequently refer to the general physicians responsible for subdivisions of the area served by a policlinic. The role of these sector terapevti has been encapsulated in various phrases, among which the term "family doctor" makes the largest implicit claim. At the outset it is possible to argue that this description must be mis...

Gvt shifts duty of care to underpaid public sector doctors.

All three deaths, a mother and one of her twins at the Odi Primary health care centre near Pretoria and a woman whose uterus ruptured at the Mafikeng Hospital, happened during a ‘go slow’ and a wildcat (unprotected) strike by doctors at these respective institutions. The illicit industrial action ran from 16 to 28 April, when the remaining strikers agreed to return to work and use recognised ba...

Return to Work in COVID-19: Review of Current Guidelines

Background and aims: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is mainly a respiratory disease which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Virus. The outbreak first began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and then expanded globally. COVID-19 can result in illness ranging from mild to severe. However, some of the affected individuals might be asymptomatic. Symptoms of the disease may appear in as few as 2 days...

Return to work.