Live years at birth
MONACO 89.52 Most Doctors and most Hospital beds
ANDORRA 82.65
SWITZERLAND 82.39
ITALY 82
COMMENT: Migration can add years to life. Canada:81.85
World-wide medical news for clinical use. Contributions edited by Dr.A.Franklin MBBS(Lond)Dip.Phys.Med (UK) DPH & DIH(Tor.)LMC(C) FLEx(USA) Fellow Med.Soc.London
27 June 2016
26 June 2016
BBC WORLD SERVICE; on Netherlands out-patient forensic psychiatry for patients over 12 years.
Largest is the WAAG in the Hague. Eleven other Branches in the Netherlands.
UK LEAVING EU: GOOD NEWS FOR UK DOCS.
At present docs from EU can do locums in UK. Few UK docs want to practice in EU, A few semi-retired docs live and work in French Riviera, Brexit will increase market value of BMA docs, Also fewer non-English speaking patients reduced medico-legal risk, of errors caused by poor translation.
18 June 2016
GLASGOW DR. JOHN MONTGOMERIE patented the"Digestive " biscuit in 1886 (UK) USA in 1889.
Called "digestive" because of Sodium bicarbonate in dough. Used brown meal flour high in iron. In USA called Graham cracker. McVitie's a brand of United Biscuits (UK) sell 80-million packets yearly. Each biscuit contains approx 77mg Sodium
COMMENT: Example of medical enterpreneurship. Vide Dr J G B SIEGERT & "Angostura Aromatic Bitters"
COMMENT: Example of medical enterpreneurship. Vide Dr J G B SIEGERT & "Angostura Aromatic Bitters"
05 June 2016
BOXING No longer a sport at HARROW SCHOOL
Boxing has been replaced by Judo & Karate/
Comment. No point in spending approx $250,000 to educate a brain only to have it intentionally damaged.
Comment. No point in spending approx $250,000 to educate a brain only to have it intentionally damaged.
02 June 2016
DAILY MAIL: Prof Biomedical & Life Sciences Roger PICKUP at LANCASTER UNIV "World on brink of"dystopia" as antibiotics become useless; TB & Pneumonia to be mass killers.
COLISTIN RESISTANCE GROWING
Resistant TB will again become a mass killer.
Transplant operation will be impossible
Society behaviour will change; less physical contact.
As in Japan, masks will be more common.
COMMENT
N(iosh) 100 respirators with valve @ $10 made by 3M
Cloth gloves made by DENTS UK
Resistant TB will again become a mass killer.
Transplant operation will be impossible
Society behaviour will change; less physical contact.
As in Japan, masks will be more common.
COMMENT
N(iosh) 100 respirators with valve @ $10 made by 3M
Cloth gloves made by DENTS UK
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