Tag: doctors

Israel

Pain gets worse for Gaza’s older people | The Electronic Intifada

Now 87, Samira has lost a great deal of weight during the current genocidal war on Gaza.

She has been repeatedly displaced and forced to live in a tent.

The situation is particularly gruesome for a woman of her age, who has diabetes.

One symptom of diabetes is a need to urinate frequently. Samira does not have a bathroom near her tent.

Using a crutch, she treks to a bathroom a considerable distance away, accompanied by her children. The sound of Israel’s violence is unavoidable on these treks.

Samira rented an apartment before the war began. Israel has now destroyed that apartment.

Pain is a constant presence in her life.

If Samira eats she feels pain. If she is hungry she feels pain.

Samira used to visit the doctor for regular checkups. As Gaza’s healthcare system has been directly attacked and placed under the worst imaginable strain, Samira has not been able to have proper medical assistance.

And so her pain gets worse and worse.

Source: Pain gets worse for Gaza’s older people | The Electronic Intifada

COVID-19

International doctors endure hardship in COVID Australia

Sabrina is a foreign-trained doctor, or international medical graduate (IMG), as the Australian Medical Council (AMC) refers to her. She landed in Australia in 2018 and completed her AMC MCQ in 2019, less than a year later. She began studying for her AMC clinical exam, which she was planned to take in early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Australia. All of a sudden, all the scheduled examinations were cancelled and she has been attempting to book one ever since, as this is the only way to get into the Australian employment market. This isn’t just her tale. It’s about an entire community of highly skilled people who are being held back by a system.

Source: International doctors endure hardship in COVID Australia

LNP, LNP Economic Management, LNP Government

“Everybody did it”: wealthy doctors lobbies ride JobKeeper gravy train – Michael West Media

JobKeeper

JobKeeper for dentists? Fair enough. But more public subsidies for doctors’ lobby groups who enjoyed rising surpluses or hardly suffered a downturn? Callum Foote reports on Australia’s Medical Colleges refusing to pay back the millions in JobKeeper payments.

Source: “Everybody did it”: wealthy doctors lobbies ride JobKeeper gravy train – Michael West Media

Israel, Israel Crimes

‘A Huge Loss’: Israel’s Killing of Top Doctors Further Strains Overwhelmed Gaza Health System | Common Dreams News

A Palestinian toddler wounded in an Israeli airstrike receives care at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on May 16, 2021. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

“I have never seen anything like this in my life. There were body parts collected on hospital beds and unbearable scenes.”

Source: ‘A Huge Loss’: Israel’s Killing of Top Doctors Further Strains Overwhelmed Gaza Health System | Common Dreams News

Peter Dutton, Uncategorized

Dutton misleads on his role in protecting public health

In terms of public health, the primary focus is on ensuring visa applicants and arrivals are free of tuberculosis. But the Auditor-General’s report of 2007 states visa applicants and holders must also be

‘…free from a disease or condition that would result in a threat to public health or a danger to the Australian community.’

via Dutton misleads on his role in protecting public health

Trump, Uncategorized

The Selfish and Unselfish Case for Sending Scientists and Doctors Abroad – Mother Jones

How many Holes can a President have in his foot?(ODT)

On why the United States should not pull out of the World Health Organization: WHO is not a perfect organization, but it is the only international infrastructure that we currently have that creates the platform on top of which sovereign nations can collaborate, and share data and technical expertise. There is nothing else like that out there. And so, for us to pull out of that basically means that we need to depend on bilateral relationships with countries you know, or regional organizations. It’s just shooting ourselves in the foot.

via The Selfish and Unselfish Case for Sending Scientists and Doctors Abroad – Mother Jones

USA

NRA tells American doctors’ to ‘stay in their lane’

US doctors are breaking their silence on guns.

At first, Judy Melinek didn’t know how to respond when she learned about an NRA tweet last week telling doctors who dared enter the gun debate to stay “in their own lane.”

But two days later, when the forensic pathologist was on her way to the morgue to examine the body of one of the country’s many forgotten gunshot victims, the words came to her.
US doctors are breaking their silence on guns.

US doctors are breaking their silence on guns.

“Do you have any idea how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly? This isn’t just my lane,” she tweeted on Friday. “It’s my [expletive] highway.”

Joseph Sakran, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, who suffers from a paralysed vocal cord after taking a stray bullet in the neck almost 25 years ago, refused to stay silent as the country’s latest mass shooting hit the news.

“I have Two Words for you Hell No! #Hell No for #ThousandOaks #Hell No for all black men that die & no one hears about it. #Hell No for all those that we still may be able to save,” Sakran wrote.

Melinek and Sakran are among countless medical professionals who have taken to Twitter in the past few days to fire back at the NRA – creating a viral response that has ricocheted around the Internet under the hashtags #thisisourlane and #thisismylane.

via NRA tells American doctors’ to ‘stay in their lane’

Israel

Israeli doctors assist in torture of Palestinian prisoners | The Electronic Intifada

Palestinians stage hunger strikes against solitary confinement, cruelty

Source: Israeli doctors assist in torture of Palestinian prisoners | The Electronic Intifada

Asylum Seekers

Doctors’ protest over asylum seekers shows us what real morality is all about

Melbourne’s medicos remind us that the utilitarian politics behind our brutal asylum seeker policy strikes at the heart of our civilisation.

Source: Doctors’ protest over asylum seekers shows us what real morality is all about

Asylum Seekers

Royal Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to return children to detention

Victoria’s Health Minister Jill Hennessy has thrown her support behind doctors at the Royal Children’s Hospital who have refused to discharge asylum seeker children back into detention.

Source: Royal Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to return children to detention

Asylum Seekers

Doctor accuses immigration department of medical interference in treatment of people on Nauru – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Dr Young said he was told several times not to note psychological harm in reports.

Doctor accuses immigration department of medical interference in treatment of people on Nauru – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Cuba

Cuba’s medical magicians – Al Jazeera English

Cuba’s medical magicians – Al Jazeera English.

USA

John Oliver Returns To Lift The Lid On How Pharmaceutical Companies Try To Buy Your Doctor: The companies are now going a step further they are trying to buy the country in secret. TPP don’t allow it.

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Drug companies have a reputation for spending billions to buy the influence of doctors in the US — often to the point of compromising patient health — but as Oliver points out, you need two to tango, and he goes after the doctors accepting Big Pharma money just as hard as the corporations themselves.
Read more at http://junkee.com/john-oliver-returns-to-lift-the-lid-on-how-pharmaceutical-companies-try-to-buy-your-doctor/50862#12rlX3iyRmEYoQFC.99