"Doctor Death" - Would Australia have had to be treated by the likes of Dr Patel if.....?
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This is probably an oversimplification, but to me the problem was caused by too much doctor training capacity being utilised on the training of overseas students, the majority of whom don't stay in Australia. This was done so that uni's could make a fast buck at a time of funding cutbacks. The thinking seems to be, we can make lots of money by doing this, and we can import some cheaply-trained doctors from India and like countries to make up the shortfall. As with many such neo-liberal schemes, the full implications were never thought through, and the costs never properly calculated.\n\nSolutions? Not my area of expertise, but recognising what caused the problem is a start. It's easy to say spend more money, but then you have to decide where it's coming from.
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cruel question - yes, he deliberately toyed with death on numerous occasions, but to say he 'had it coming' ? Hardly. Show some respect for a man who lived life to its fullest, and refused to be a coward - fear indeed, that which may kill you, but never stay afraid, for there is much to do. Steve Irwin is an inspiration to all who move among the wild. just rotton luck, is it. a d*mn shame he has left us.
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ummm. My advisers say maybe. If Sir Teh Fuzz can create world peace, stops all illness and stop war maybe he could. He would need to create world equality and freedom. If he can do this maybe.\n\nDope kills.
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Obviously.  Otherwise everyone would be doctors!
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i think the government (and families) would want the body to conduct an investigation as to what was the cause of death. i can't see them getting rid of the body unless it posed a health risk to the remaining crew. even if they did, perhaps they would place him in a space suit possibly with some homing device and retreive the body upon return to earth for a proper investigation and burial to take place.
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of course- if I was dying of a serious illness I'd want any medication that would help me- tested on animals or not. Its survival of the fittest, simple.
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I think both sides really wanted what they thought was best for Terri.  It must have been absolutely horrible to experience this from all sides.  I would not want to live like Terri was living.  The important lesson is this:  we all need an Advanced Care Directive, so if this happens to us, our family will know our wishes.  You can download this simple form from websites, such as this:\n\nhttp://www.pamf.org/preventive/PAMF_AdvanceDirective.pdf#search='advance%20health%20directive'\n\nhttp://www.justice.qld.gov.au/guardian/forms/health.pdf#search='advance%20health%20directive'
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Yeah sure if you have the right qualifications. In Australia all overseas doctors are screened by the government to make sure they are qualified and know what they are doing.
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No way.\nHundreds of bad policemen should not change the character of one Doctor committed to a very holy cause ......... to save human life/humanity.
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As it's a medical procedure, I think it would be neither. It probably would be investigated though, just to make sure that it was genuinely a medical mishap.
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Wakin_marman answered a few of my questions as well.  He isn't right in the head.\n\nI am sure that your friend once went to a school, you should have a specialist explain the situation with the death.
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Hi Frd_ngo!\nI've heard about the Dr. Edward Wiley. He's a good family man but has a bad habit at the race track. He welshed on a loan so, some goons had to be sent out to collect a payment. When the good doctor couldn't cough it up, they had to tie his fingers together in a most unpleasant way.\nMy girlfriend was unfortunate to be in the waiting room thumbing through the Ladies Home Journal when she had to witness the unfortunate events. I don't know if Dr. Edward Wiley is still practicing medicine or not.\nMason
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I'm a nurse and have taken care of the "living dead" also.  It is still an agonizing desicion to have to make.  It's different to care for these people and say pull the plug than it is to have known them, loved them, and say pull the plug.  There is no right answer.  Death is immenent.  The desicion is agonizing.
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Litigation doctors or patient or Gov.??\n\nwhat we need is enlightenment
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I am a homeopath, and I would have any patient of mine do the allopathic treatment.  I would treat the patient as well, but emphasize that they must complete their course of antibiotics as prescribed, even though it's quite a long one.
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Well, it is claimed he was taking the wrong meds so that he could return to Russia for health care, and delay his trial.  Apparently, his plan backfired.\n\nI think the UN and tribunal would have been perfectly happy to have kept him alive and the trial going forever - a lot of people (aides, staff, researchers, etc.) and a lot of lawyers were making a LOT of money off the whole thing.  Why kill a cash cow?
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I know a lot of people who sure wished they had the chance.I find it strange the doctors can identify the drugs that did him immediately when in the USA it takes about 2 weeks to get results. I think the doctors know which medicine it was because they gave it to him. In any case if someone did do it they deserve a medal of some type