?Tree of Life? honors past doctors and medical staff
As a way to honor the lives of those doctors and staff members who saved the lives of so many, the Houston Northwest Medical Center put the ?Tree of Life? work of art on permanent display.

Doctors Should Prepare To Handle Angry Patients, For Own Protection And To Avoid Complaints, Says Medical Protection ...
The Medical Protection Society is marking Anger Awareness Week by offering advice to doctors who could be confronted by aggressive patients, upset at their perception of some aspect of the service they have received.

Clinic To Disclose Doctors' Industry Ties
The Cleveland Clinic is making it easier for the public to find out if its doctors get money from pharmaceutical companies and medical device makers. The move could help patients evaluate whether the doctors are acting in their best interests.

Medical residents told to catch some zzz's
Traditionally viewed as a baptism by fire for future physicians, a new report said the lengthy, grueling schedules of medical residents may be hurting patients and doctors-to-be - instead of helping them.

Cleveland Clinic disclosing doctors' business ties
The Cleveland Clinic says it will publicize the business ties its 1,800 doctors and researchers have with drug companies and device makers. The move, announced Wednesday, is the clinic's latest effort to guard against medical conflicts of interest and follows...

Trainee Doctors Need More Sleep And Supervision, US Report
A new report from medical and scientific experts recommends among other things that trainee doctors' hours and workload in the US be reduced and their supervision be increased because they make too many fatigue-related medical mistakes and they need a better learning environment.

Upper Yoder woman?s recovery surprises doctors, thrills family
Everyone tells 78-year-old Rose Reed she?s from strong stock. Now, even she might believe it. Reed left Johnstown?s Memorial Medical Center on Wednesday ? nearly three months after doctors thought she?d never make it through one night.

Cleveland Clinic hosts new website disclosing doctors' and researchers' conflicts of interest
The Cleveland Clinic has begun reporting on its website the business ties any of its 18-hundred doctors and researchers may have with drug and device manufacturers. The disclosures are the latest effort by the Clinic to address potential conflicts of interest after financial links surfaced several years ago between its top doctors and the medical industry. WKSU spoke with Dr. Guy Chisolm, ...

Cleveland Clinic disclosing doctors' business ties
The Cleveland Clinic says it will publicize the business ties its 1,800 doctors and researchers have with drug companies and device makers. The move, announced Wednesday, is the clinic's latest effort to guard against medical conflicts of interest and follows a rising national debate in recent years on the issue. The clinic is posting on its Web site the names of its physicians and ...

Panel: Medical residents need sleep
A national panel of medical experts proposed significant and costly changes for training new doctors in the nation's hospitals, recommending mandatory sleep breaks and more structured shift changes to reduce the risk of fatigue-related errors.

Add sleep break for doctors in training: report
Doctors training at hospitals should limit how long they work without a sleep break to reduce the chances of fatigue-related medical errors and improve their learning environment, an expert panel in the U.S. recommended.

Prevention Of Fatigue-Related Errors Requires Revised Hours And Workloads For Medical Residents
A new report from the Institute of Medicine proposes revisions to medical residents' duty hours and workloads to decrease the chances of fatigue-related medical errors and to enhance the learning environment for these doctors in training.

Study: Medical Residents Need More Sleep
Doctors in training often work shifts that can last as long as 30 hours. But a new report, touted as historic, says medical residents need more sleep.

Medical residents need more rest to prevent deadly errors: study
Worn-out medical residents need more breaks to avoid dangerous slip-ups, according to a report released Tuesday by the Institute of Medicine. The prescription: Doctors in training shouldn't work for more than 16 hours without sleep, which is a drop from previous standards.

Cleveland Clinic disclosing doctors' business ties
The Cleveland Clinic says it will publicize the business ties its 1,800 doctors and researchers have with drug companies and device makers. The move, announced Wednesday, is the clinic's latest effort to guard against medical conflicts of interest and follows a rising national debate in recent years on the issue. The clinic is posting on its Web site the names of its physicians and researchers ...

Boston Globe Examines Shared Medical Appointments
The Boston Globe on Sunday examined "shared medical appointments," a practice in which a physician sees a group of patients at one time. According to the Globe, "Many patients, it turns out, are willing to sacrifice privacy and modesty for improved access to doctors.

Curbs urged on long shifts for young doctors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New limits are needed to ensure that the long hours logged by young doctors in training at hospitals do not leave them so exhausted that they make medical errors, a U.S. expert panel said on Tuesday.

Medical board takes actions against three doctors
The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners on Monday suspended the licenses of two Las Vegas physicians, Dr. Stephen Seldon and Dr. Randall Foster.

Half of new SA doctors emigrate
SA's medical doctors emigrate at an annual rate of about 1 000, an international report shows.

'Miracle' at Lourdes? Don't ask these doctors
An international doctors' panel appointed by the Roman Catholic Church says it's getting out of the "miracle" business at Lourdes.