M edicine in Britain is get-ting decidedly negative press coverage these days as government
health reforms wreak havoc in the capital, diagnostic errors and health care failures are an …

It might be difficult for doctors who are unaccustomed to fee-for-service systems to
appreciate why the details of who pays whom matter so much in Australia, as in Canada and …

Dr. Marion Broderick, who studied medicine in Galway, has been sole physician for the 2000
residents of Ireland's Aran Islands for 6 years. Her clinic is located on Inishmore, the largest …

In 1972 Mr Justice Bright and his fellowcommittee members reviewed the health services of
South Australia, recommending that there should soon be a health commission, to which …

madness. Both daughter and mother suffered from melancholia, fancy ing that their souls
were lost, and that they were unworthy to live. Both prayed that they might die and not live …

HEALTH Olr ENGLISH TOWNS. IN thrty-three of the largest English towns including London,
6,318 births and 3842 deaths were registered durin Lhe week ondin Saturday, June 17th …

Crisis is an overworked headline word today. Nevertheless, doctors in all branches of
practice will agree that it is an accurate diagnosis of the political and financial health of the …

Ostensibly, the focus and raison d'être of our health system is the care of the sick, but of late
it appears that the system itself is sick. Waiting times, not only for elective surgery and …

In many respects closing a hospital is tantamount to to wiping out an entire community. It
scatters people who have worked together for many years and who may never meet again …

The House of Commons last week debated" the growing crisis in the NHS" on the basis on
an opposition motion. Predictably it was rejected in favour of a government amendment …