A 2017 update to the World Medical Association Physician’s pledge added language on is-sues such as respect for patients’ dignity and respect between colleagues.
Humanitarian surgical care has been provided to local national civilians during the Afghanistan conflict with 49.3% of patients treated for non-war-related conditions.
The persistence of medical tourism speaks to capacity and resource-utilization concerns that Canada’s single-payer system has been unable to effectively address.
The world needs doctors, no matter what language we speak, because the people you’ll be helping out will be more than grateful to even be seeing a doctor in the first place.
The WHO resolution, with its implicit recognition of sepsis as a major threat to patient safety and global health, has the potential to save millions of lives.
The World Health Organization published new guidelines for managing HIV drug resistance in countries in which pretreatment HIVDR to NNRTIs is prevalent.
The report made me think about things that I could have done to make my visit a win not just for me, but also for the people I was ostensibly trying to help.