Doctors slam Choose and Book
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Choose and Book unfit for purpose The British Medical Association said today the NHS's Choose and Book system is unfit for purpose and actually limits choice for patients.â¦
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A major shake-up in the way doctors are regulated in the UK is to be outlined by ministers.
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Do not always expect straight talk from your doctor about treatments he or she disapproves of -- 14 percent of physicians believe it is acceptable to withhold information about topics such as birth control, abortion and sedating dying patients, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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Some doctors balk at silicone F.D.A. guidelines, saying they are bureaucratic and unscientific.
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Critics say a law designed to keep medical information confidential is being overzealously applied.
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NEW YORK - As doctors struggle to come to grips with what the withdrawal of Vioxx means for drug safety, the letters pages of the normally sedate New England Journal of Medicine have turned into a battleground.
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The British Medical Association renews its attack on changes to rules for foreign doctors.
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Proposed changes to healthcare regulation in the European Union could threaten  patient care standards, doctors argue.
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DOCTORS should ask if patients take alternative medicines after a study found alternative medicines could complicate treatment in hospital and emergency departments.
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Proposals to limit the use of tissues taken from living patients have been overthrown.
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TORONTO -- Doctors across Ontario have voted to reject a proposed four-year fee agreement with the McGuinty government. Broadcast News has learned 60 per cent of the 15,000 doctors who voted by phone rejected the new deal with the province.
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Doctors are being urged to think twice before prescribing certain painkillers in light of new evidence suggesting they may increase cardiovascular risk.
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President Bush's nominee for surgeon general sought to distance himself yesterday from his controversial 1991 paper on homosexuality and health, saying that it was not a scientific study and that many issues it raised are outdated.
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Cross-party group wants to remove delays and need for two doctors to approve terminations.
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TORONTO (CP) - Doctors across Ontario have voted to reject a proposed fee agreement with the provincial government. Sixty per cent of the 15,000 doctors who voted by phone in a non-binding referendum on the
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Don&#39;t be embarrassed to question your doctor about that new prescription he&#39;s written, the National Council on Patient Information and Education advises.
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Medical science and religion clashed this week over whether to switch off life-support equipment that is keeping an 84-year-old man alive in a Canadian hospital.