Joav Merrick, M.D., MMedSci, D.M.Sc, is professor of pediatrics, child health and human development affiliated with Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States and the Department of Pediatrics, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel.
Dr. Hristo Kozhuharov was born in 1966 in Varna, Bulgaria. He completed his secondary education in a German foreign language school in 1985, and received his M.D. degree from the Medical University of Varna in 1993. In 1997, he completed his training in Psychiatry. During the period July 1997 – November 1998, he specialized in […]
Joussineau S, Riddez L; Swedish Disaster Medicine Study Organization.Prehosp Disaster Med. 2006 Mar-Apr;21(2):117-8. A break in safety locks resulted in the release of high quantities of gamma and neutron radiation directly exposed three workers and indirectly exposed as many as 310,000 other persons. The two persons who received the highest doses ultimatley succumbed due to […]
Otani H, Kusumi T, Kato K, Matsuda K, Kern RP, Widner R Jr, Ohta N.Memory. 2005 Jan;13(1):6-20. Flashbulb memories are vivid memories of the details surrounding the discovery of an emotional event. We investigated whether the nuclear accident that occurred in Japan in 1999 produced flashbulb memories among people who lived near the accident site. […]
Allison Greene and Christopher Bailey After reading “Out of Camelot, Knights in White Coats Lose Way” we compared Dr. Jauhar’s report to our own perspectives on medicine. As medical research assistants and future medical students, we aspire to conduct our careers with the type of unwavering enthusiasm for medicine that we recognize in the physicians […]
Akashi M, Kumagaya K, Kondo H, Hirose Y.Health Phys. 2010 Jun;98(6):804-9. An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck the Niigata-Chuetsu region of Japan at 10:13 on 16 July 2007. The earthquake was followed by the sustained occurrence of numerous aftershocks, delaying the reconstruction of community lifelines. The earthquake affected the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power […]
Said Shahtahmasebi, Ph. D. Some commentators have suggested that the social status of doctors has been eroded which has led to a commensurate decline in the quality of care that they provide. The irony is that the social status of doctors has not changed, they are still in the top social class. What may have […]
Amra Zalihic, M.D., Ph.D. Not so long ago, a rule that a physician, a teacher and a monk are the most important persons in their village existed in my country (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Why this rule disappeared? Doctors have never been well paid in my country, but they had a high social status and reputation. […]
Robertas Bunevicius, M.D., Ph.D. I totally agree with the statement that the low social status of physicians means the low-quality health care. ‘Low quality’ means not only low quality of care but it also means low morale as well. In our country (Lithuania), the social status and salaries of physicians are low. Tips and semi-legal […]
Wiesemann C.J Med Ethics. 2011 Mar 1. [Epub ahead of print] The paper discusses the current medical practice of ‘gender verification’ in sports from an ethical point of view. It takes the recent public discussion about 800m runner Caster Semenya as a starting point. At the World Championships in Athletics 2009 in Berlin, Germany, Semenya […]
