Suchergebnisse

Decline in the status of doctors: the tragic case of Dr. Benjamin Moore -- Medical McCarthyism -- Prosecuting doctors: sexual harassment and creating crimes -- Judicial prejudice, state terrorism, and forced medication: the cases of Jeffrey J. Rutgard, M.D., George O. Krizek, M.D. and Charles T. Sell, D.D.S. -- Prosecutorial overreach: anti-kickback laws and the "Pinellas 14" -- DEA drug warriors: targeting doctors as drug dealers -- Witch-hunt for "drug-dealing" doctors: James Graves, M.D., and Frank Fisher, M.D. -- DEA show trial: "magical moments" and the comprehensive care conspiracy

The year 2002 saw the publication of a landmark white paper in the United Kingdom entitled "Shifting the balance." It proposed redistribution of funds with the lion's share of the NHS budget going towards Primary Care services. Soon after, the white paper was approved, and at present 75% of the NHS budget is directed towards primary care.1 This underpins the importance and priority which the government in the United Kingdom gives to primary care in order to have an effective health system. ; peer-reviewed

The Malta College of Family doctors is concerned that successive Governments have failed to acknowledge the intrinsic value of Primary Health Care in the delivery of good quality health care. The lack of interest on the part of the University in this field has compounded the situation further. Malta is one of the few European countries where Primary Care has not yet attained the specialist status it deserves. Recent experience has con- firmed that while huge financial resources are allocated for the development of tertiary care in Malta, Primary Care remains the Cinderella of medicine and is afforded scant and insignificant attention. ; N/A

Fifty years ago family practice in Canada had no academic presence. Stimulated by a number of general practitioners and with the support of the Canadian Medical Association, the College of General Practitioners of Canada (CGPC) was founded in 1954. In 1962, conferences on education for general practice attended by the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges and the CGPC led to pilot postgraduate residencies in family practice supported by Department of National Health and Welfare. The first certification examination was held in 1969 and, by 1974, all Canadian medical schools had a family medicine residency program. Today departments of family medicine contribute substantially to undergraduate education in all 16 schools. In Canada, the medical profession, governments and the medical schools have demonstrated the importance they place on appropriate education for family physicians.

Family physicians are naturally concerned with the work effects or causes of their patients' health problems. As occupational risk factors have become better understood, however, a new specialty of occupational medicine has been recognized by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1984, two years after the Canadian Board of Occupational Medicine started its own certification. Occupational physicians are available to act as an extension of the family doctor's care and can provide trustworthy medical resources in the workplace. The family physician should be aware of some of the games poorly trained or ill-informed personnel managers may play in the workplace if they have no medical consultant to rely on. New human rights legislation has given more opportunities to rehabilitate workers back to their jobs, and occupational physicians and family physicians can achieve a great deal in co-operation as a result.