Doctors' rapid burnout; need for counseling

The overwork and poor working conditions expose the doctors to early and rapid burnout. This has to be prevented by various ways including improvement of the working conditions of the doctors and their counseling. A study carried out on Norwegian doctors seemed to indicate the need and the benefits of such counseling to the doctors.

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 Doctor's Rights; USA takes a lead

Doctors make delicate decisions about teen health care every day, but current federal confidentiality rules can render it nearly impossible for a doctor to perform the medical action that his professional judgment demands.

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 Eroding Patients' Rights

If you've been admitted to a hospital any time in the last five years, you've been asked whether you have an 'advance directive'. The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990, which went into effect in December of 1991, requires all hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices to inform patients upon admission of their right to sign such a document. All of us have heard of a living will or durable power of attorney for health care. I venture to guess that most of us do not know what they really are.

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 Doctor’s liability is a big issue

In 2001 a doctor in a dental surgery at the Alkmaar Medical Centre, north of Amsterdam, removed a molar from a remand prisoner. In doing so, he cut his finger on an instrument used in the treatment, resulting in blood contact with his patient. The patient was considered to have an increased risk of HIV infection because of a history of drug misuse.

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 Personal Safety and Privacy for Doctors

The AMA recognizes that violence against doctors is a growing concern. This Position Statement is provided in an effort to reduce the vulnerability of medical practitioners to physical harm in all locations or settings in which they practice or may be exposed to personal danger arising from their professional work as doctors. It is recognized that there will be wide variation in the level of risk, the practicality of protective measures for prevention of threats to personal safety and the availability of emergency help when such threats do arise.

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 Dedicated Indian doctor languishes in a filthy jail

Binayak graduated from the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, one of India’s premier institutions. Even as a student he was something of a legend - charismatic, caring, concerned about every last patient. Stories are being exchanged on the web about him.

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 Communal virus attacks doctors, but they too are vulnerable to physica

Doctors in the riot hit Indian city of Ahmedabad have not been working in its Muslim neighborhoods for several weeks, because of security concerns and a disruption in medical services. Consultants and general practitioners belonging to the majority Hindu community are avoiding visits to Muslim localities in Ahmedabad, where religious riots between Hindus and Muslims have claimed more than 400 lives in the past 10weeks. Security concerns for doctors surfaced after individuals posing as patients stabbed and injured a Hindu doctor last month in his clinic in a Muslim neighborhood. The incident prompted the Ahmedabad Doctors' Forum to urge Hindu doctors not to venture into Muslim localities unless their safety was guaranteed.

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