27 June 2016

DAILY MAIL from Treated.com: EUROPE MEDICAL STATS

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



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"

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Boxing has been replaced by Judo & Karate/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.

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