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Analyzes changes in the regulation of doctors in the UK during its transition from an imperial power to a European nation, drawing on personal experience as a lay member of the British General Medical Council. The council was created in 1858 & charged with registering medical practitioners. Traditionally, the General Medical Council has been reluctant to register foreign doctors who were not trained in UK-founded medical schools. However, during the 1960s, the National Health Service experienced a dearth of competent doctors, thus increasing the pressure on the council to register more foreign doctors. The admittance of more foreign doctors produced a reaction against supposedly lax registerial standards & eventually a return to the restrictive policy. This new policy was constituted in such a way as to privilege European doctors over "overseas" doctors to reduce tension between the UK & the European Community. Recently, greater integration with the European Community & the introduction of concerns outside the province of the council have further reduced its influence. 45 References. D. M. Smith

The medical professions will lose an indispensable tool in clinical practice if even simple infections cannot be cured because antibiotics have lost effectiveness. This article presents results from an exploratory enquiry into "good doctoring" in the case of antibiotic prescribing at a time when the knowledge base in the healthcare field is shifting. Drawing on in-depth interviews about diagnosing and prescribing, the article demonstrates how the problem of antimicrobial resistance is understood and engaged with by Danish general practitioners. When general practitioners speak of managing "non-medical issues," they refer to routines, clinical expertise, experiences with their patients, and decision-making based more on contextual circumstances than molecular conditions—and on the fact that such conditions can be hard to assess. This article's contribution to knowledge about how new and global health problems challenge professional actors affirms the importance of such a research agenda and the need for further exploration of the core problems posed by transnational sociology of professions.

Frontmatter --CONTENTS --Introduction --PART I. Conception and (In)fertility --1. On Preconception, the Beginning of the Life Cycle of Early Motherhood --2. A State of Mind? Fertility Treatment(s) and Expertise --PART II. Pregnancy and Birth --3. Red Underwear, Genes, and Monstrosity: Pregnancy and Social Media Surveillance --4. "You Women Will Have to Fight for It": Twilight Sleep and Transactional Childbirth Expertise in Twentieth-Century America --PART III. The Postpartum Period: The "Fourth Trimester" --5. "One of the Most Curious Charities in the World": Infant Incubation as Sideshow and/or Medical Specialty --6. Not Just Baby Blues: Historical Realities and Social Media Accounts of Postpartum Care Today --PART IV. Infant Loss and Early Childhood --7. Memento Mori in the Victorian Era and on Social Media: The "Right" (Way) to Grieve --8. "Better Babies": Early Twentieth-Century Scientific Babyhood and Constructions of Twenty-First- Century Infancy on Instagram --Conclusion --Methodological Appendix --Acknowledgments --Notes --Master Reference List --Selected Bibliography --Index --ABOUT THE AUTHORS

The guest in this episode of The Health Leader Forge is Brigadier General Jeffrey J. Johnson, the commanding general of Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) serves as the largest and most robust military healthcare organization within the Department of Defense (DOD). Both inpatient and outpatient services are provided by approximately 8,500 staff members, including active duty military personnel from each of the uniformed services, federal civilian employees and contractors. Brooke is a Level I Trauma center, and includes a forty bed burn center. It is also a hub for graduate medical education, with more than 30 graduate medical education programs. General Johnson is a board certified family medicine physician and has served in and commanded a wide range of units, from traditional clinics and hospitals to Special Forces units and the legendary 82nd Airborne, and has deployed in support of the Army's missions around the world.

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Federal research and preparedness activities related to bioterrorism center on detecting of such agents; developing new or improved vaccines, antibiotics, and antivirals; and developing performance standards for emergency response equipment. Preparedness activities include: (1) increasing federal, state, and local response capabilities; (2) developing response teams; (3) increasing the availability of medical treatments; (4) participating in and sponsoring exercises; (5) aiding victims; and (6) providing support at special events, such as presidential inaugurations and Olympic games. To coordinate their activities, federal agencies are developing interagency response plans, participating in various interagency work groups, and entering into formal agreements with each other to share resources and capabilities. However, GAO found that coordination of federal terrorism research, preparedness, and response programs is fragmented, raising concerns about the ability of states and localities to respond to a bioterrorist attack. These concerns include poor state and local planning and the lack of hospital participation in training on terrorism and emergency response planning. This report summarized a September 2001 report (GAO-01-915)."

Have you ever asked a tailor to stitch clothes without telling the age, height, weight, and other measurements? Yes, the whole idea sounds absurd. How can one stitch clothes for someone without knowing the basic measurements? The same holds when governments formulate and implement their plans without an updated census. Pakistan has been living with this absurdity since 2008. Without knowing the number, age, geographical distribution, ethnic, religious, and gender composition, educational level, income level, employment level and other key indicators of its population, successive governments have been planning and executing policies, ranging from economic, social, political, foreign, environmental to defence.

The purpose of this study was to identify the number of medical graduates registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) between 1990 and 2005, whose initial training was in Eastern Europe and who came from universities which have subsequently developed an "English Parallel" course and are now within the European Union (EU). A similar exercise was undertaken with graduates registered with the Medical Council, Ireland.

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