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Sabtu, 21 Januari 2012

Chilean doctors separate conjoined twins

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In this image taken from a video released by Luis Calvo Mackenna hospital, Roberto Paredes, right, kisses his daughter Maria Jose, one of two conjoined twins after she was separated from her sister Maria Paz at the Luis Calvo Mackenna hospital in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. The 10-months-old twins were joined at the chest, stomach and pelvis. (AP Photo/Luis Calvo Mackenna Hospital) In this image taken from a video released by Luis Calvo Mackenna hospital, Roberto Paredes, right, kisses his daughter Maria Jose, one of two conjoined twins after she was separated from her sister Maria Paz at the Luis Calvo Mackenna hospital in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. The 10-months-old twins were joined at the chest, stomach and pelvis. (AP Photo/Luis Calvo Mackenna Hospital) In this image taken from a video released by Luis Calvo Mackenna hospital, Roberto Paredes, right, caresses his daughter Maria Jose, one of two conjoined twins after she was separated from her sister Maria Paz at the Luis Calvo Mackenna hospital in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. The 10-months-old twins were joined at the chest, stomach and pelvis. (AP Photo/Luis Calvo Mackenna Hospital) In this image taken from a video released by Luis Calvo Mackenna hospital, medical personnel work around one of two conjoined twins after they underwent surgery to be separated at the Luis Calvo Mackenna hospital in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. The 10-months-old twins were joined at the chest, stomach and pelvis. (AP Photo/Luis Calvo Mackenna Hospital)eval("var currentItemd57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9ff = 1;");eval("var nextd57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9ff = 0;");eval("var previousd57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9ff = 0;"); SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean doctors successfully separated conjoined twin girls in a marathon 20-hour surgery, saying Wednesday that the operation went extremely well despite challenges.

The 10-month-old twins Maria Paz and Maria Jose were recovering in an intensive care unit, and doctors said the next two days would be critical as they watch for infections or other possible complications.

Parents Jessica Navarrete and Roberto Paredes kept an anxious vigil at Luis Calvo Mackenna Hospital in Santiago as doctors separated the twins at the thorax, abdomen and pelvis. It was the seventh and most complex operation yet for the twins.

Doctors successfully separated the twins late Tuesday night. Chief surgeon Francisco Ossandon described it as the moment "the girls finished the process of being born."

"Before, they had two souls and one body," Ossandon said.

Surgery on one of the twins was completed early Wednesday after a total of 19 hours, while for the other it took more than 20 hours.

"We had a number of difficulties during the surgery. There were some surprises, but we were able to fix, solve the problems," Ossandon said at a news conference.

He added that the twins came out of the surgery in good condition. Ossandon, however, didn't rule out future complications involving the effects from anesthesia and possible infections.

"We're very happy because we think they've had the best evolution we could have hoped for," he said.

The girls' parents appeared in televised images as they kissed the twins before the operation. Then afterward, the mother and father gazed lovingly at the sleeping girls from beside their separate cribs in the intensive care unit.

Paredes softly placed a hand on one daughter's head.

Some Chilean television stations occasionally broke into their regular programming to broadcast updates from the doctors, both during and after the delicate surgery.

"The next 48 hours will be the most critical in terms of the ... risk they face of dying," said Dr. Carlos Acuna, chief of the intensive care unit. He said the girls faced risks of various organs ceasing to function, and also had kidney and lung problems.

The girls' mother said she was hoping for a miracle when the high-risk operation began Tuesday morning.

The Chilean twins presented a particularly difficult challenge because they were born sharing many of the same internal organs and even urinary system. About 100 people participated in the procedure, including 25 surgeons and anesthesiologists.

Perhaps providing some comfort to the parents was the hospital's history with conjoined twins. Staff there have separated three sets before. A fourth set, however, died during surgery due to cardiac complications.

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, roughly one out of every 200,000 live births worldwide results in conjoined twins. The overall survival rate is between 5 percent to 25 percent, depending on various factors, including where they are joined.

While rare, such surgeries have become increasingly frequent over the years due to improvements in surgery, anesthesia and critical care, said Dr. Eric Strauch, a surgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

"We've gotten better at dealing with them," Strauch said. "I think people are willing to undertake it more."

He said he has performed surgeries on two sets of twins. The first set, girls from Uganda, survived in 2002 and are now about 10 years old, he said.

"The second set survived for about six months after the separation, but they both succumbed to infection," said Strauch, adding that their intestines were unable to function.

He said he knew of another successful case in which two girls were separated and have reached adulthood.

"They're in their 20s and they're just graduated from college," Strauch said. "A lot of them don't do well, but a lot of them do."

Dr. Steven Fishman, a pediatric surgeon at Children's Hospital Boston, said that if twins make it out of the hospital without post-surgery complications, most tend to survive.

"If they're felt to be well enough to go home, in general they will make it long term," he said.

The Chilean twins were born in the Villarrica hospital about 470 miles (760 kilometers) south of Santiago and were kept under constant medical care, surviving with the aid of an artificial respirator.

Earlier this year, doctors separated the twins' legs, urinary tracts, pulmonary systems and other parts of their bodies. They now each have part of a leg that used to be fused together.

During the latest surgery, doctors managed to separate an intestine that had been shared by the two, giving each of them part of it, said Jaime Manalich, the government's health minister, who visited the family at the hospital.

Surgeons weren't able to completely close their abdominal cavities or their thoraxes, and therefore had to use meshing to cover them, Ossandon said. "These are foreign bodies that sometimes the body recognizes as foreign, and that can cause infections," he said.

Maria Jose was the first twin to reach the intensive care unit after the surgery. Her sister Maria Paz, whose operation was more complex due to difficulties in the area near her heart, arrived an hour and 15 minutes later.

They were born in February, and since then have been hospitalized and attached to machines including an artificial respirator.

The girls were still connected to a respirator on Wednesday.

They are to remain sedated for at least three days.

Ossandon said the twins will return to the operating room every two or three days so that doctors can clean their wounds. He called the surgery their "rebirth."

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Associated Press writer Ian James in Caracas, Venezuela, contributed to this report.

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Doctors slap down claim Chavez to die in 2 years

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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez talks to the media as he arrives at the La Fria airport in the state of Tachira October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez talks to the media as he arrives at the La Fria airport in the state of Tachira October 20, 2011.

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By Enrique Andres Pretel and Daniel Bases

CARACAS | Sat Oct 22, 2011 3:22pm EDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - Physicians treating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez disputed on Saturday claims made by a former doctor of the socialist leader that he would die within two years from his undisclosed cancer.

In the first official public comments on Chavez's health, three physicians dressed in laboratory coats at Venezuela's main military hospital said Salvador Navarrete was uninformed and had just minimal contact with the leader a decade ago.

"The President, from the standpoint of cancer has been diagnosed and treated early. Subject to the appropriate follow-up treatments, the current status is quite satisfactory with an excellent prognosis," Dr. Fidel Ramirez said in a televised midday press conference.

"Navarrete was not Chavez's physician, a trusted party or his family," Ramirez said, adding that Navarrete had no scientific evidence or understanding of Chavez's condition.

Navarrete, in an open letter published by local media on Friday, said he has since fled the country, fearing for his safety after an interview published a week ago quoted him saying Chavez would be dead in two years.

Navarrete attended to Chavez a decade ago and claims he is in touch with some relatives and members of his medical team.

In his letter, Navarrete said the interview with Mexico's Milenio Semanal magazine was intended to combat official secrecy over Chavez's condition. He stood by his original prognosis of Chavez, which caused an uproar.

Chavez's health is the all-consuming issue for the South American OPEC member nation of 29 million people, one year ahead of a presidential election where he wants to be re-elected.

Chavez, 57, returned on Thursday from Cuba where he has received cancer treatments, declaring himself cancer-free in an event that included an open-top caravan to a regional Catholic shrine where he prayed and gave thanks for his recovery.

The three doctors on Saturday still would not disclose the type of cancer Chavez has, four months after surgery to remove a malignant tumor from his pelvis. This was followed by four cycles of chemotherapy treatment.

Experts say it is possible for a patient to be considered cancer free at the time of testing if no cancer cells are found, but that typically no one is considered cured of the disease unless tests are negative for a number of years.

By common convention, oncologists say a person can be considered cured after two to five years of clean tests.

Dr. Earle Siso Garcia, director of the military hospital, disputed claims that Chavez was having kidney problems.

Navarrete mentioned again in his open letter Chavez has seen a psychiatrist. However, this claim was denied as well.

"The president never ever had psychiatric treatment. This is a total fallacy," said Dr. Rafael Vargas.

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Jumat, 14 Oktober 2011

Two - Question screen can help doctors Spot teen alcohol problems

Two questions during regular visit to the pediatrician may help identify youth drinking problems, according to a group of national experts organized by the National Institute on alcohol and the alcohol abuse (NIAAA), which has just released the guidelines for the screening of alcohol and treatment.

Despite the national drinking age 21, approximately 7% of Americans 12 - years have been more odd sip of drink alcoholic. According to the age of 18, that proportion rises to 70%. Children who begin drinking before age 15 - outside the parameters adapted as the religious ceremonies or family meals in cultures of drinkers of wine - are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin later.

Then that drinking deviants beginning is not necessarily to alcoholism, it indicates that the young person may be at high risk for alcohol problems and other psychiatric disorders and may benefit from early treatment.

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Questions pediatricians should ask according to the NIAAA are as follows, with text amended to be age-appropriate:

You have friends who drank beer, wine or drink containing alcohol in the last year?

You - the last year, had you on how many days have more than a few sips of beer, wine or any drink containing alcohol?

Screening is obviously better when the parents are not present and after the child was informed of the privacy policy of the doctor. In General, pediatricians keep confidential information unless the child is in immediate danger for alcohol-related harm by engaging in activities as the daily drinking or drinking and driving.

The question to what friends drinking tends to predict future alcohol consumption. If the child responds Yes but not in the second, the doctor may welcome the child to avoid alcohol, discuss the risks of alcohol ways they can avoid drinking if their friends continue to do so.

If the child admits to drinking, the NIAAA guide provides physicians of information on the level of risk associated with various amounts of drink at specific ages, as well as advice on the implementation of what is called a "brief motivational intervention" helps people smoking or levels at least cut at least risky drinking.

Brief interventions involve "meet people when they are in," rather than requiring immediate abstinence or entry into an intensive treatment. In a brief intervention - which literally takes 15 minutes or less - the doctor discussed to reduce or eliminate risk behaviour and the means, this objective can be achieved.

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More importantly, however, the focus is on the objectives and the wishes of the patient. The doctor tries to help patients find their own reasons to choose of more healthy behaviour change and then support them, instead demanding or "refusal." Follow-up appointments are made to discuss the progress, sometimes combined with another follow-up medical appointments if the child does not want to disclose a problem at low altitude to parents.

Not surprising, given how short these interventions are, they have been shown to be as effective as more intensive treatment to reduce the consumption of alcohol to teens. They carry low cost and no risk of exposure of adolescents to more deviant peers that can come with the treatment of group for the substance use problems.

If adolescents are found to have ongoing problems or have engaged in threatening behavior such as drinking and driving, the NIAAA guide offers parents and physicians policy advice to find the best care, including treatment more intensive.

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"We know that alcohol is by far the drug of choice among young people," said NIAAA acting Director Kenneth Warren in a statement. "Minor drinking is also a marker for other unhealthy behaviors and it often goes unnoticed." "This new tool was designed for busy professionals who manage the health and well-being of children and adolescents to conduct fast, screens of the entry into force of the alcohol and brief interventions".

Unfortunately, actually getting physicians to integrate testing into their practice can be difficult, given their time. A 4 000 adult patients NIAAA study revealed that, while 49% were questioned on their consumption of alcohol, only 14% of those with alcohol use has exceeded healthy levels advised this subject by their physicians in their most recent visit.

The guide NIAAA alcohol screening and intervention for youth are located here.

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Maia Szalavitz, is a writer of health at TIME.com. Find him on Twitter at @ maiasz. You can also continue the discussion on the time Facebook page Healthland and on Twitter at @ TIMEHealthland.



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More deaths when green doctors place neck stents

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NEW YORK | Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:21pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People about to undergo a controversial stenting procedure in the neck might want to check their doctor's credentials first, researchers say.

According to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, patients whose doctors do lots of the procedures are nearly half as likely to die over the next month as those in less-experienced hands.

During the treatment, called carotid stenting, doctors clean out cholesterol buildups in the carotid artery in the neck that sometimes cause strokes. Then they insert a small metal mesh tube, the stent, to prop the vessel open.

But if they're unfortunate, part of the cholesterol deposit might break off during the procedure and be released into the blood stream, producing the dreaded stroke the patient hoped to avoid.

"A little piece of it just flows upstream and can lodge in a smaller blood vessel in the brain," said Dr. Ethan A. Halm, who wrote an editorial about the new findings.

Based on Medicare records of nearly 25,000 procedures, the new study found a 30-day death rate of 1.4 percent in patients whose doctors placed at least 24 stents a year. By contrast, that death figure was as high as 2.5 percent when the doctors did six or fewer procedures annually.

The same pattern held true when comparing the initial and later procedures done by inexperienced doctors.

Dr. Brahmajee Nallamothu, a cardiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who led the work, said the findings don't prove that lack of familiarity with the procedure explains the findings.

But he said that is likely to be the case, since there are no uniform standards for the training doctors need to undergo before they can perform carotid stenting.

"Patients shouldn't be shy about asking their physician who is going to be doing this procedure," Nallamothu told Reuters Health. "I think that it's a very fair question. If I were a patient, I would certainly want to know."

Halm added that carotid stenting is not the only alternative for patients with clogged arteries. The more common procedure is surgery, and some doctors recommend sticking just to medications. Especially when people have no symptoms, many believe doing surgery to clean them out is too hazardous.

With drugs alone, he told Reuters Health, the yearly stroke risk can be lowered to less than one percent, challenging the need for a procedure with significant risks.

And he added that the new study doesn't look at the total number of strokes caused by stenting, which tend to outnumber deaths by a factor of three.

"It's particularly important that people weigh the pros and cons of all therapies," said Halm.

In his view, the new results deal a blow to carotid stenting, which has become more and more common since it was approved in 2004. He estimated some 10,000 carotid stenting procedures were performed each year during the study, a number that has likely increased.

"There are a lot of tricky elements to the procedure," Halm said. "The article by Nallamothu shows that more people think they can do it well than actually can do it well."

If people decide that stenting is the right option for them, they might still have a hard time finding an experienced doctor to perform the procedure.

"The easiest piece of advice is to use an expert middle man," Halm said, adding that a neurologist can usually guide patients to an appropriate expert.

Nallamothu said he hoped the new study would spur the development of stricter training protocols and ensure that patients are followed more closely after stenting in the future.

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Dutch doctors urge end to male circumcision

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AMSTERDAM | Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:49am EDT

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch doctors want politicians and human rights groups to speak out and discourage the practice of male circumcision in the Netherlands because they say it is a "painful and harmful ritual," and a violation of children's rights.

Between 10,000 and 15,000 boys are circumcised in the Netherlands each year, mostly for religious reasons and not always with an anesthetic, according to the Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) which represents surgeons, pediatricians, general practitioners and urologists.

"We want to discourage male circumcision, because it is an unnecessary procedure with complications, which violates the integrity of the child," Lode Wigersma, a spokesman for the association, told Reuters on Friday.

"This is not an innocent procedure, we see complications in about 5 percent of the cases, as well as some long-term and psychological implications," he said.

Male circumcision involves the removal of all or part of the foreskin of the penis. It is a ritual obligation for infant Jewish boys, and is also a common rite among Muslims, who account for the largest share of circumcised men worldwide.

The Dutch medical association has urged religious leaders to find alternative rites of passage that are not irreversible and which are not painful for the child.

The practice of female genital mutation has been prohibited by law in the Netherlands since 1993 for all ages.

Last year the Dutch medical association released a report against the practice of circumcision of male children for non-medical reasons, hoping to initiate a public discussion.

Now it is appealing to Dutch politicians to speak out against the practice to help "gradually change the mentality" in society and among religious groups that circumcise their boys.

The doctors group said that contrary to popular belief, circumcision can cause some minor as well as serious complications including bleeding, infection, urethral stricture as well as panic attacks, which it says are particularly common.

It said there was no medical reason to surgically remove a part of the genitals of healthy babies and young children, who are too young to give their consent to the procedure.

The Dutch doctors are not calling for a circumcision ban, for fear the practice will be driven underground.

"We also understand that it (circumcision) is a deeply embedded religious habit so we don't expect it to be over in a few years, so our appeal is if you want to do it then have it done by a doctor with anesthesia," said Wigersma.

The majority of male circumcisions in the Netherlands are done in special circumcision clinics by doctors using anesthetic on Muslim boys between 5 and 7 years, according to Wigersma.

Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, President of the Dutch Association of Rabbis, said only about 50 male Jewish babies are circumcised in the Netherlands each year.

He disputed the 5 percent complication rate, and said there have not been any problems in the Jewish community due to strict rules about how and when circumcision takes place.

"According to Jewish law, you have to do it (circumcision) the Jewish way," Jacobs said.

The doctors' recommendation to end the practice of circumcision is likely to be controversial given that it involves both Jewish and Muslim traditions.

In a rare show of unity in June, the Dutch Muslim and Jewish communities -- numbering about 1 million and 40,000 respectively in a total population of 16 million -- condemned the government's proposed ban on the religious slaughter of animals as a violation of their religious freedom.

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Selasa, 20 September 2011

Doctors separate conjoined twins

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18 September 2011 Last updated at 10:36 GMT The twins after their separation The twins do not appear to have suffered neurological side effects as a result of surgery Twins who were born joined at the head have been successfully separated by a team of British doctors.

Baby girls Rital and Ritag Gaboura, who are 11 months old, were separated on 15 August after four operations at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

They do not appear to have suffered neurological side effects. Only one in 10 million sufferers survive their rare condition.

The Sudanese infants were flown to the UK by the charity Facing the World.

Conjoined twins are very rare and only 5% of conjoined twins are craniopagus, which means they are fused at the head.

About 40% of twins fused at the head are stillborn or die during labour and a third die within 24 hours.

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We are very thankful to be able to look forward to going home with two separate, healthy girls”

End Quote Parents of the twins The nature of the twins' condition meant significant blood flowed between their brains.

Ritag supplied half her sister's brain with blood whilst draining most of it back to her heart. It was a life-threatening situation because significant drops in brain blood pressure would cause neurological damage.

The children were born by Caesarean section in Khartoum, Sudan.

The girls' parents, who are both doctors, said: "We are very thankful to be able to look forward to going home with two separate, healthy girls. We are very grateful to all the doctors who volunteered their time and to Facing the World for organising all the logistics and for paying for the surgery.

The twins before their separation (Copyright: Facing the World) The parents have expressed immense gratitude for the work carried out by the doctors

"We feel very lucky that our girls have been able to have the surgery that they needed, but we also know of other children who need complete sponsorship and families who are searching for someone to help them."

So far, the girls are reacting in the same ways to tests and stimuli as they did prior to surgery which suggests they have not suffered neurological side effects.

However, their young age makes it difficult to determine whether this is definitely the case.

David Dunaway, from the plastic surgery and craniofacial unit at Great Ormond Street, was the lead clinician and is also a trustee of Facing the World.

He said: "The incidences of surviving twins with this condition are extremely rare. The task presented innumerable challenges and we were all very aware of our responsibilities to the family and these two little girls.

"The Gaboura family have been extremely brave throughout a very stressful journey and their love for their children is clear to see. It is a testimony to the support of the British public that we are able to do any of the charity work that we do."

Facing the World is funded by donations from members of the public.



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Overseas doctors 'unready for UK'

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16 September 2011 Last updated at 00:16 GMT By Adam Brimelow Health Correspondent, BBC News Stethoscope Culture, medical standards and language are all issues The General Medical Council says some overseas doctors come to the NHS with "little or no preparation" for working in the UK.

It says those trained under different cultural and professional standards need more support.

The GMC is planning a basic induction programme for all doctors to help them understand how healthcare is practised in the UK.

Doctors' representatives say the scheme will help to protect patients.

More than one in three doctors registered in the UK qualified abroad. The GMC says the NHS has relied heavily on their skills and dedication, and could not have kept going without them.

But it says they need better support in order to practise safely. The recommendation for an induction programme comes in its first State of Medical Education and Practice report.

This presents a profile of the medical profession and outlines challenges for the future.

Continue reading the main story "In my country, the doctor is a kind of king who can do everything that he wants to, so there were no actual dilemmas because I was brought up in a way that whatever was decided was the right thing.""The whole approach of explaining every aspect of treatment and giving the patient the option to actually make her own decisions, it was something totally new to me.""I have come to know that that the important things in the UK which I didn't really take seriously is confidentiality which is different… in our culture, confidentiality is important but in the UK it is very, very important."It says last year there were 239,270 doctors on the medical register. Just over 150,000 qualified in the UK, a further 23,000 trained initially in the European Economic Area (EEA), and 66,000 completed their medical undergraduate education overseas.

Cultural attitudes

Drawing on a wide range of data including doctors' surveys and patients' complaints, the report concludes that many overseas doctors have problems adjusting to a different cultural, ethical and professional environment in the UK. The GMC says these differences become particularly important in handling the doctor-patient relationship.

The report also says doctors should have specific advice about what will be expected of them, how the health service works and how they will be regulated. It recommends training in communication skills to help them handle sensitive situations and avoid misunderstandings:

"While there are some good local schemes for supporting doctors who are new to this country, there are too many examples of new doctors undertaking clinical practice with little or no preparation for working in the UK. There have also been accounts of locum doctors being sent to undertake duties for which they have not been appropriately trained."

The GMC restates its worry that it is prevented under European law from providing language checks on doctors from the EEA. This became a central concern in the case of Dr Daniel Ubani, an out-of-hours doctor from Germany who killed a patient, David Gray, with an overdose of a painkiller.

The report confirms that the GMC is working with the UK government to change this restriction.

The GMC's chief executive, Niall Dickson, said the regulator was preparing an induction scheme with doctors' employers and professional bodies:

"Developing an induction programme for all doctors new to our register will give them the support they need to practise safely and to conform to UK standards. This will provide greater assurance to patients that the doctor treating them is ready to start work on day one."

Protection for patients

Dr Tom Dolphin from the British Medical Association's Junior Doctor Committee welcomed the move.

"Being a doctor in the UK requires much more that just clinical expertise. It is also important to have highly developed communications skills, knowledge of UK medical ethics and culture, and an understanding of how the NHS works.

"The development of an induction course which helps doctors coming from overseas would do much to help them as they make the difficult transition to practise medicine in another country."

The President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Prof Norman Williams, also gave his support: "Guiding doctors who are new to the UK on how to practise within our professional, language, ethical and legal boundaries is a positive role for the General Medical Council to take on and one the Royal College of Surgeons would strongly endorse.

"We want to see any potential problems headed off before situations develop that might harm patients."



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Overseas doctors 'unready for UK'

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16 September 2011 Last updated at 00:16 GMT By Adam Brimelow Health Correspondent, BBC News Stethoscope Culture, medical standards and language are all issues The General Medical Council says some overseas doctors come to the NHS with "little or no preparation" for working in the UK.

It says those trained under different cultural and professional standards need more support.

The GMC is planning a basic induction programme for all doctors to help them understand how healthcare is practised in the UK.

Doctors' representatives say the scheme will help to protect patients.

More than one in three doctors registered in the UK qualified abroad. The GMC says the NHS has relied heavily on their skills and dedication, and could not have kept going without them.

But it says they need better support in order to practise safely. The recommendation for an induction programme comes in its first State of Medical Education and Practice report.

This presents a profile of the medical profession and outlines challenges for the future.

Continue reading the main story "In my country, the doctor is a kind of king who can do everything that he wants to, so there were no actual dilemmas because I was brought up in a way that whatever was decided was the right thing.""The whole approach of explaining every aspect of treatment and giving the patient the option to actually make her own decisions, it was something totally new to me.""I have come to know that that the important things in the UK which I didn't really take seriously is confidentiality which is different… in our culture, confidentiality is important but in the UK it is very, very important."It says last year there were 239,270 doctors on the medical register. Just over 150,000 qualified in the UK, a further 23,000 trained initially in the European Economic Area (EEA), and 66,000 completed their medical undergraduate education overseas.

Cultural attitudes

Drawing on a wide range of data including doctors' surveys and patients' complaints, the report concludes that many overseas doctors have problems adjusting to a different cultural, ethical and professional environment in the UK. The GMC says these differences become particularly important in handling the doctor-patient relationship.

The report also says doctors should have specific advice about what will be expected of them, how the health service works and how they will be regulated. It recommends training in communication skills to help them handle sensitive situations and avoid misunderstandings:

"While there are some good local schemes for supporting doctors who are new to this country, there are too many examples of new doctors undertaking clinical practice with little or no preparation for working in the UK. There have also been accounts of locum doctors being sent to undertake duties for which they have not been appropriately trained."

The GMC restates its worry that it is prevented under European law from providing language checks on doctors from the EEA. This became a central concern in the case of Dr Daniel Ubani, an out-of-hours doctor from Germany who killed a patient, David Gray, with an overdose of a painkiller.

The report confirms that the GMC is working with the UK government to change this restriction.

The GMC's chief executive, Niall Dickson, said the regulator was preparing an induction scheme with doctors' employers and professional bodies:

"Developing an induction programme for all doctors new to our register will give them the support they need to practise safely and to conform to UK standards. This will provide greater assurance to patients that the doctor treating them is ready to start work on day one."

Protection for patients

Dr Tom Dolphin from the British Medical Association's Junior Doctor Committee welcomed the move.

"Being a doctor in the UK requires much more that just clinical expertise. It is also important to have highly developed communications skills, knowledge of UK medical ethics and culture, and an understanding of how the NHS works.

"The development of an induction course which helps doctors coming from overseas would do much to help them as they make the difficult transition to practise medicine in another country."

The President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Prof Norman Williams, also gave his support: "Guiding doctors who are new to the UK on how to practise within our professional, language, ethical and legal boundaries is a positive role for the General Medical Council to take on and one the Royal College of Surgeons would strongly endorse.

"We want to see any potential problems headed off before situations develop that might harm patients."



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Doctors separate conjoined twins

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18 September 2011 Last updated at 10:36 GMT The twins after their separation The twins do not appear to have suffered neurological side effects as a result of surgery Twins who were born joined at the head have been successfully separated by a team of British doctors.

Baby girls Rital and Ritag Gaboura, who are 11 months old, were separated on 15 August after four operations at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

They do not appear to have suffered neurological side effects. Only one in 10 million sufferers survive their rare condition.

The Sudanese infants were flown to the UK by the charity Facing the World.

Conjoined twins are very rare and only 5% of conjoined twins are craniopagus, which means they are fused at the head.

About 40% of twins fused at the head are stillborn or die during labour and a third die within 24 hours.

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We are very thankful to be able to look forward to going home with two separate, healthy girls”

End Quote Parents of the twins The nature of the twins' condition meant significant blood flowed between their brains.

Ritag supplied half her sister's brain with blood whilst draining most of it back to her heart. It was a life-threatening situation because significant drops in brain blood pressure would cause neurological damage.

The children were born by Caesarean section in Khartoum, Sudan.

The girls' parents, who are both doctors, said: "We are very thankful to be able to look forward to going home with two separate, healthy girls. We are very grateful to all the doctors who volunteered their time and to Facing the World for organising all the logistics and for paying for the surgery.

The twins before their separation (Copyright: Facing the World) The parents have expressed immense gratitude for the work carried out by the doctors

"We feel very lucky that our girls have been able to have the surgery that they needed, but we also know of other children who need complete sponsorship and families who are searching for someone to help them."

So far, the girls are reacting in the same ways to tests and stimuli as they did prior to surgery which suggests they have not suffered neurological side effects.

However, their young age makes it difficult to determine whether this is definitely the case.

David Dunaway, from the plastic surgery and craniofacial unit at Great Ormond Street, was the leed clinician and is also a trustee of Facing the World.

He said: "The incidences of surviving twins with this condition are extremely rare. The task presented innumerable challenges and we were all very aware of our responsibilities to the family and these two little girls.

"The Gaboura family have been extremely brave throughout a very stressful journey and their love for their children is clear to see. It is a testimony to the support of the British public that we are able to do any of the charity work that we do."

Facing the World is funded by donations from members of the public.



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Sabtu, 17 September 2011

Foreign doctors 'unready for UK'

16. September 2011 stand 00: 16 GMT by Adam Brimelow health correspondent, BBC News Stethoscope language, culture and medical standards are all issues the General Medical Council some foreign doctors come to the NHS with "little or no preparation at all says" to work in the UK.

It says, need more support trained under different cultural and professional standards.

The GMC is planning a basic induction program for all doctors, that will help you to understand how health care in the United Kingdom is practiced.

Representatives of the doctors say that helps the system to protect of the patients.

More than a third doctors who qualified registered abroad in the United Kingdom. The GMC says the NHS has sat heavily on their skills and their commitment, and could not have held without them.

But it says that they better support need to practice safely. The recommendation for a programme of induction is the State of medical education and practice in its first report.

This provides a profile of the medical profession and challenges for the future outlines.

Read the most important story "in my country, the doctor was a kind all he wants to can do so there was no real dilemma, because I was educated in a way, which was decided the right King is." "" The whole concept to explain every aspect of the treatment and the patient gives the opportunity to make their own decisions, it was something quite new for me. """I have come to know that the important things in the UK, I is not really the confidentiality that... in our culture is different, privacy is important, but in the UK it is very, very important."It says in the last year there were 239.270 physicians on the medical register. More than 150,000 qualified a further 23,000 in the UK, trained initially in the European economic area (EEA) and 66,000 completed her undergraduate medical training abroad. Cultural settings

Based on a variety of data including surveys of doctors and patients, the report that many foreign doctors have problems of adapting to a different cultural, ethical, and professional environment in the United Kingdom includes complaints. The GMC says, that these differences in dealing with the doctor-patient relationship has become particularly important.

The report also says that doctors should specific advice on what is expected of them, how the health service works and how they are regulated. It is advisable to training in communication skills, work around to give you sensitive situations and to avoid misunderstandings:

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a doctor in the UK will requires much more than just clinical experience - it is also important, very developed communication skills, medical ethics and culture and an understanding how the NHS works UK "
end quote Dr. Tom Dolphin British Medical Association" Although there are some good local initiatives to support the doctors new to this country, there are too many examples of new doctors, the implementation of clinical practice with little or even no preparation to work in the UK. "There were also accounts of locum doctors on tasks to take over, for which they were not properly trained, will be sent."

The GMC reaffirms its concern that language prevents controls on doctors from the EEA from providing under European law. A central concern in the Dr. Daniel Ubani, a doctor out-of-hours from Germany, a patient, David Gray, was killed with an overdose of painkillers.

The report confirms that the GMC is to change with the British Government, this restriction.

The GMC Chief Executive Niall Dickson, said that the regulator doctors preparing an induction arrangements with employers and professional bodies:

"Development of an induction programme for all doctors, the new in the support that they need, be sure to practice and with UK standards is our them." "This will more patients, ensure that the doctor treated they prepared to start working on the first day."

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Dr. Tom Dolphin of the British Medical Association junior doctor Committee welcomed the move.

", A doctor in the UK requires much more, that only clinical expertise." It is also important, very developed communication skills, medical ethics and culture and an understanding how the NHS works UK.

"The development of an introductory course helps doctors from overseas would do much to them to help, how to practice the difficult transition medicine in another country."

The President of the Royal College of surgeons, Prof Norman Williams, gave his support: "guiding physicians, new in the United Kingdom to the practice our professional, language, ethical and legal limits is to take a positive role for the General Medical Council and one at the Royal College of surgeons would like to strongly support."

"We want that possible problems went out when situations that develop could harm patients."



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Analysis: Bachmann vaccine comments toxic, doctors say

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Rep. Michele Bachmann participates in the CNN/Tea Party Republican presidential candidates debate in Tampa, Florida, September 12, 2011. REUTERS/Scott Audette

Rep. Michele Bachmann participates in the CNN/Tea Party Republican presidential candidates debate in Tampa, Florida, September 12, 2011.

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CHICAGO | Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:38pm EDT

CHICAGO (Reuters) - No matter how much the U.S. medical community repudiates the suggestion by presidential candidate Michele Bachmann that a vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) is dangerous, doctors fear the damage has already been done.

Physicians are bracing for more parents to refuse the HPV vaccine, which protects against the most common cause of cervical cancer, for their daughters.

They say the comments by the Republican candidate will only stoke growing and unfounded fears about a whole class of common immunizations needed to fight disease.

"There are people out there who, because of this kind of misinformation, aren't going to get their daughter immunized," said Dr. Kenneth Alexander, a pediatric infectious disease expert at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

"As a result, there will be more people who die from cervical cancer," Alexander said in a telephone interview.

Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, an infectious disease expert at Children's Mercy Hospital & Clinics in Kansas City, Missouri, said doctors are already struggling to convince parents to immunize girls against HPV, a sexually transmitted virus.

"There will be repercussions of this comment that will directly impact every provider who takes care of adolescents and young women," Jackson said in a telephone interview.

Bachmann first raised the issue during a Republican presidential debate on Monday as a swipe at Republican rival and Texas Governor Rick Perry, who issued an executive order in 2007 mandating girls get the HPV vaccine as part of a school immunization requirement. The order was later overturned.

In that forum, she questioned the state's authority to force "innocent little 12-year-old girls" to have a "government injection" that was "potentially dangerous."

The following day, she told NBC's "Today" show the story of a woman from Tampa, Florida, who approached her after the debate and said her daughter became "mentally retarded" after getting the Gardasil vaccine made by Merck.

Physician groups including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) rushed out statements defending the safety of Merck's vaccine and Cervarix made by GlaxoSmithKline, whose most common side effects include a sore arm, a rash and fever.

As a measure of their incredulity over Bachmann's comments, two bioethicists are offering rewards, one of more than $10,000, if she can bring forward the child who suffered irreparable damage.

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The AAP says there is absolutely no scientific validity to Bachmann's statement that the HPV vaccine is potentially dangerous.

"Since the vaccine has been introduced (in 2006), more than 35 million doses have been administered, and it has an excellent safety record," Dr. O. Marion Burton, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said in a statement.

But no amount of proof will suffice for some families, who fear that even a small percentage of children may be harmed.

"I recently had a mother who had cervical cancer who refused the HPV vaccine for her child," Jackson said. "I asked her where she got her information and she said, 'the Internet, and innuendo.'"

That may help explain the slow uptake of the HPV vaccine. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 32 percent of adolescent girls last year had gotten all three shots of the HPV vaccine.

"We've got 12,000 women a year in this country getting cervical cancer. The vaccine could prevent about 70 percent of that," Alexander said.

Vaccine fears have already fueled recent outbreaks of measles, mumps and whooping cough, according to the CDC.

Much of the fear stemmed from a study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the now-disgraced British doctor who researchers believe falsified data for a 1998 study which convinced thousands of parents that vaccines are dangerous.

Concerns that vaccines might cause autism have not only caused parents to skip vaccinating their children, but also forced costly reformulations of many vaccines.

Bachmann's suggestion that the HPV vaccine may be linked with "mental retardation" only feeds into those fears.

"What is especially disturbing is you've got organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists -- every learned medical organization in the country and indeed around the world -- in favor of immunization," Alexander of the University of Chicago said.

Jackson said when presented with information about the HPV vaccine, about 85 percent of families decide to have their child vaccinated, about 12 percent are hesitant, and the rest are "flat-out refusers."

It's the families in that 12 percent she is worried about.

"It's not going to impact the flat-out refusers. I worry it is going to impact this group of vaccine-hesitant families."

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Selasa, 13 September 2011

HEALTH MANAGEMENT. High health care costs doctors due to high doctors fees and charges not practice

American doctors charge considerably more per service than their counterparts in other countries - orthopedic surgeons' fees are more than double what they are in five other wealthy nations, researchers reported in the journal Health Affairs. The difference between specialty care and primary care fees is of thus considerably greater in the US than in other industrialized countries.
These higher Fées, which give American specialist physicians higher incomes, are also the main reason why overall spending on physician's services in the United States is so much higher than elsewhere.
Miriam Laugesen and Sherry A. Member compared the fees received by primary care offices (general practice) and hip replacements from private and public payers in the United States, UK, Germany, France, Canada and Australia.
They found that, in comparison to the other five countries: U.S. primary care physicians received 27% (average) more from public payersUS primary care physicians were paid 70% more by private payers US orthopedic surgeons were paid 70% more by public payersUS orthopedic surgeons were paid 120% more by private payersMiriam Laugesen, who so what lead author, said:
"the gap between the fees paid for primary care and those for orthopedic services such as hip replacements is significantly bigger in the" United States than it is in other countries. For decades, policy makers and medical leaders in this country have debated financial incentives to spur more doctors to become primary care physicians. "Our work shows that continuing attention needs to be paid to the difference in payments across specialties, and how we can get better value for those expenditures."
Fees Columbine by doctors in the five countries varied widely, Laugesen and link found. In France, public fees paid for a primary care visit what $32, compared to $66 in the UK and $60 in the United States. Fees received by primary care practices from Medicare were more or less similar to those charged in the other five countries.
They found a very wide range of difference in Fées paid for hip replacements: Canada-$625 (public fees) United States $1,634 (public fees) France-$1,340 (private Fées) United States $3,996 (private Fées) the widest disparity in how much US physicians charge, according to this study, is in the private sector. The researchers gathered data on Fées paid by six large national health insurance companies in six US markets, and found that they pay approximately one third more to primary care offices and 50% more for hip replacements compared to what Medicare pays.
The authors say that private insurers have had more success when negotiating Fées with generalist physicians than with orthopedic surgeons.
Despite similar volumes of work, US doctors reported higher live than their counterparts in the other countries. The authors believe the differences in income are because American doctors are paid more for the time and skills. They stressed that their study was not involved in determining whether the extra pay what warranted.
Primary care physicians, average annual incomes: United States $186,582France-$95,585Australia-$92,844 Orthopedic surgeons, average annual incomes: UK orthopedic surgeons earn 30% less than their US counterparts and 50% more than those in the remaining countries...
In Canada, France and Germany, primary care physicians (GPs, general practitioners) earn about 60% of what orthopedic do in their countries, while in the United States primary care physicians' annual income is about 40% that of an American orthopedic surgeon.
This is not breaking news, the authors emphasize, that U.S. health care spending and fees are far higher than in other nations. However, their study shows that it is not such factors as volume of services, medical school tuition fees, or higher practice costs that drive up costs, but rather the higher fees physicians are paid, particularly orthopedic surgeons.
Perhaps policy makers should consider the findings of this study when looking for ways to control health care spending, the authors suggest.

Sabtu, 10 September 2011

HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Financial incentives for doctors do not always help.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - health systems, how best to structure financial incentives for primary health care work better, not have found physicians to do, suggests a new paper.
And it is not clear that the incentives to reward doctors, wanted to improve patient care, do more and more good than damage, Australian researchers, data from studies of incentive programs in the United States, and Germany.
In these studies, researchers looked to see if distinguished doctors shown for different diseases, follow-up patients according to or achieved a result of health specific financial incentives such as often-such as a patient, that to quit smoking. Overall, the effects have been mixed.
"Many doctors, who already well simply claim the money with no change in behavior", said Anthony Scott, one of the review authors from the University of Melbourne, Reuters Health in an e-Mail.
"Incentives are not often on such doctors, which targeted the poorest quality of care." And (sometimes) the amount of money may not be sufficient, or doctors are simply not motivated by money from a large part, "he added."
He and his colleagues reviewed seven studies, doctors comparing performance, before and after incentive programs, or compared to the just a regular salary doctors in incentive programs.
Payments have been set up differently: in one case doctors have helped a small payment for each patient, which they smoking; in another model a large payout received clinics after the collision with a goal for the total number of patients a stop smoking helpline referred to additional rewards for each additional references.
Some seemed to help these incentives. Clinics, the incentives for a helpline smokers to get sent around four percent of their patients there, 11 percent rewarded referred to such as always. But in other cases, the promise of a payment does not, that doctors were better at screening for breast cancer or chlamydia.
Also with such as primary care pretty reward doctors, researchers and takes into account many different measures of performance, to fight, Jim Burgess said, health policy studies at Boston University and was not the new review.
"It is to the general problem as you an array of quality measures and try, one way to work the common Assembly and first comprehensive measure of the performance measures", he told Reuters Health.
"" "Most of what has gone before (in trials), has not generated really, what we think of as:"We are really ready to move forward on this.""
Some incentive programs actually can make worse certain doctors, run, or have no effect, he added. Do, for example, in a program, that is one group of doctors and are a payout for those then that on a certain measure-a type of system, which he studied popular - "People who know that she high, can not ranked in fact does not actually change effort."
However, there are hundreds of different incentive schemes, in the United States and Canada set up, said Scott. And the strategies in U.S. health care reform is part of cost-cutting by rewarding physicians who perform well.
The researchers were firm in their report, published in the Cochrane Library, that further study is needed to find out how to pay off financial rewards for patients and health systems. For now, they said any new incentive programs,-should be made, and takes into account unintended consequences.
The idea, said Burgess, to use 'tried take a broader view of patients' health very patient as a basis for doctors for the good work rewarding.