Monthly Archives: September 2016
Assaults on public hospital staff by patients and their relatives: an inquiry
Abstract
Open-ended interviews with providers, administrative staff and patients in one teaching hospital and two peripheral hospitals in Mumbai were conducted to investigate the triggers...
‘Take steps to deter attacks on doctors’
Ensuring the safety of doctors and training them to improve personal relations with patients and their relatives were among the recommendations made by the...
After string of attacks, Indian doctors seek protection from angry families
When an ailing 75-year-old woman succumbed to heart failure after two weeks in intensive care, it fell to young physician Sandeep Amale to break...
Female doctors and nurses at least three times more likely to commit suicide: study
Women working in health professions have a rate of suicide which is three times higher than those in other occupations, says a new Australian...
THE DOCTORS’ MOB RIOT
A young boy peered into the dissection room at New York Hospital in post-colonial Manhattan only to see medical student John Hicks, Jr. pick...
5 Most Stressful Parts of a Top Doctor’s Job
Along with money, health and relationships, job strain is one of the most common causes of stress in the United States. That job strain...
