When a Murderer Wants to Practice Medicine
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It is hard to think of a case in which a murderer should become a medical doctor. Murder and medical practice are simply incompatible.
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A doctor accused of indiscriminately prescribing painkillers that prosecutors say led to seven patient deaths has pleaded guilty to lesser charges and agreed to give up his medical license.
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There's an open secret in medicine: Patients lie.
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Retail clinics grow, and some physicians aren't happy.
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Fears that money has an undue influence on the practice of medicine are not new. In the 12th century, the Jewish philosopher Maimonides wrote an oath for physicians that included this admonition: ''Do not allow thirst for profit, ambition for renown and admiration to interfere with my profession.&quot;
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Of all the absurdities currently guiding UK government health policy, the notion that an intensive inquiry into the work of Britain&#39;s first GP serial killer provides the basis for
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Many doctors believe they have the right not to tell patients about treatments that they object to on moral or religious grounds and to refuse to refer patients elsewhere for the care, according to the first study to examine physicians' views on such situations.
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Doctor treated accomplice injured in first suicide bomb before police shot him dead
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OAKLAND PARK, Fla. -- The clinic where four patients went for wrinkle-smoothing treatments but ended up getting botulism has been secured as a crime scene.
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A murder &amp;#151; maybe two &amp;#151; a philandering husband, the discovery of a mysterious love child, an escape from a psychiatric hospital and a police sniper&#039;s deadly shot ending a confrontation.
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It's a basic lesson children learn even before their ABCs &#151; say you're sorry when you hurt someone. But it's now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to soothe patients.
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The latest report into the serial killer, Harold Shipman, has criticised the General Medical Council. Do you think GPs are properly vetted?
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In todayÂs world of rapid-fire medicine, ÂinvolvedÂ relatives may be a patientÂs most important advocates.
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DEKALB, Illinois  - A man who killed five students and himself during a shooting spree at an Illinois college had stopped taking medication and become erratic in the last two weeks, buying two guns used in the bloodbath just six days ago, officials said on Friday.
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A hospital in the Netherlands &#151; the first nation to permit euthanasia &#151; recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
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It's called 'murderabilia'âthe buying and selling of items connected to grisly crime scenes. And it's a brisk business online. Inside the campaign to police the murder market.
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It's a lesson children learn even before their ABCs &#151; say you're sorry when you hurt someone. But it's now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to soothe patients and head off malpractice lawsuits.