Nadeem Ahmed N* Author Affiliations Healthcare Business Consultant and Emergency Physician, Jamshedpur, India Received: January 21, 2021 | Published: 29, Corresponding author: Ahmed, DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2021.33.005415

6 © Royal College of Physicians 2017. All rights reserved. Author: A consultant forensic physician and specialist in forensic and legal medicine, honorary consultant in emergency medicine, St George’s Hospital, London, UK; honorary clinical senior lecturer, Centre for Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London, London, UK; president, Faculty of Forensic and L...

Introduction The diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma is usually made on the clinical presentation and confirmed by the estimation of noradrenaline and adrenaline, or their breakdown products, in the urine. In the presence of oliguria these tests are not possible. A patient is described who became anuric postoperatively and in whom the diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma was assisted by a plasma assay of ...

greatly over the past 10 years. Since 1996 we have seen the introduction of the Calman reforms to specialist training, the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) and the new consultant contract. We have seen a change of government, bringing with it a ‘modernisation of the NHS’ and a multiplication of NHS targets. The EWTD led to a reduction in junior doctors’ hours, fragmentation of patient car...

OBJECTIVES To determine the mean, median and 10th and 90th percentile levels of fees and out-of-pocket costs to the patient for an initial consultation with a consultant physician; to determine any differences in fees and bulk-billing rates between specialties and between states and territories. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Analysis of 2015 Medicare claims data for an initial outpatient a...

Issue Brief prepared by Nancy Weiland Carpenter, an independent health care consultant in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Simon Kedikoglou, a physician from Greece and degree candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Couch is a medical quality management consultant serving providers and purchasers of health care services (including insurers and corporations) nationwide. He represents the 6,000 physician executives of the American College of Physician Executives and American College of Utilization Review Physicians at the JCAHO. He is associated with the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics of the...

In 2005, the French law on patients' rights at the end of life ratified that decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatments must be made and carried out by the physician in charge of the patient, after obtaining the advice of an independent consulting colleague. The purpose of this text is to put forward the perspective of a pediatric multidisciplinary workshop regarding the role ...

Consultant: Dr. Kornélia Helembai, college professor and head of department, candidate in psychology studies Official Reviewers: Dr. Zoltán Balogh, college associate professor, Ph.D. Fáyné Dr. Alice Dombi, college professor and head of the department, candidate in pedagogy studies President of the Examination Committee: Dr. Iván Forgách, professor, Prof. Emeritus Members of the Examination Comm...

Both physicians and consultant pharmacists have a longstanding role in nursing home care. The physician role was emphasized in 1974, when medical directors were required in all skilled nursing facilities. It was intensified in 1987, when the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA '87) regulations required all nursing facilities to have a medical director and reinforced that each reside...