Forensic radiography has been used since 1895 to settle court cases and convince the judge or jury using pictures as evidence. Many diagnostic radiographers will image paediatric patients for suspected physical injury at some point during their career. Some radiographers may work in areas that experience high crime rates, for example where guns or knives are used in attacks or where there are i...

This study aimed to estimate the risk for suicide among medical doctors and nurses compared with the education professions and the general population and to describe the characteristics of their suicides. Suicide cases and rates in the age group of 25 to 64 years were analyzed using the Queensland Suicide Register (QSR) during 1990 to 2007. The male medical doctors had lower suicide rates than ...

A better access to medical information seems necessary to improve the coordination of medical professionals and the quality of care. A a consequence, Health Telematics is a striking challenge for : 1. The communication between professionals. Many experiences of professional networks all around the world demonstrate the feasibility and the benefits of such an electronic communication between doc...

introduction: the application of organizational ethics in hospitals is one of the novel ways to improve medical ethics. nowadays achieving efficient and sufficient ethical hospital indicators seems to be inevitable. in this connection, the present study aims to determine the best indicators in hospital accreditation. methods: 69 indicators in 11 fields to evaluate hospital ethics were achieved ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the awareness of provisions of consumer protection act among dental and medical professionals in Udaipur city, Rajasthan, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a cross sectional study, a total of 448 professionals (253 males, 195 females) belonging to dental (222) and medical (226) categories were surveyed using a self administered structured questionnaire. The questionnaire co...

what is a medical librarian? he provides information about new medical treatments, clinical trials and standard trials procedures, tests and equipment. where do medical librarians work? they work anywhere health information is needed. what kinds of jobs are available? web managers, medical informatics experts, chief information officers, cat a logers, instructors and reference librarians. who a...

The present study was conducted to investigate workplace violence and to examine how it is associated with quality of life (QOL) among medical professionals in China. A total of 2,464 medical professionals were selected from Fujian Province and Henan Province by using stratified cluster-sampling method. A Chinese version of the workplace violence scale was used to measure the incidence of workp...