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Gaza -
A letter has been published, written by Doctor Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor working in a Gaza hospital. In the letter, he gives an on-the-ground, eyewitness account of what is happening on a day-to-day basis in the hospital, and it is heartbreaking.
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According to The Daily Beast, nine out of 10 doctors discourage others from joining the profession, and 300 physicians commit suicide every year. A few years ago, physicians were named as having the second-most suicidal occupation.
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Peshawar -
A Pakistani tribunal on Saturday reduced by 10 years the sentence of a doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden, after he was jailed for ties to militants. Shakeel Afridi was convicted of treason under the country's tribal justice system.
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China has recently relaxed its one-child per family rule in an effort to cut down on the number of children being trafficked illegally. The one-child rule and the favoring of male infants has led to an increase in the selling of baby girls and women.
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Delaware -
Delaware County prosecutors in Ohio contend a former emergency room doctor violated his oath when he murdered a woman and her unborn child.
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A North Carolina mother is accusing hospital security guards of forcibly ejecting her son, despite the fact that he was dying.
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Medical marijuana is constantly in news and more positive views about its “harmless” nature seem to be attempting to win public opinion. But is it really safe? One experienced doctor rejects all safety claims of medical cannabis.
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Morgantown -
It has long been held that handshaking is a vector for the transfer of disease-causing bacteria from one individual to the next. But an on-the-rise greeting trend could be a step in the right direction for reducing the spread of disease.
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Kent -
A British grandfather showed up at a school to pick up his granddaughter to take her to a doctor's appointment. The school mistakenly released another girl with the same last name as his granddaughter who was then erroneously taken to the doctor.
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Ohio -
It seems Google Glass can do more than take videos of cats and talk to friends, as one doctor from Ohio State University has shown.
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A highly-regarded anesthesiologist in Russia was recently fired after he brutally beat a heart surgery patient, who later died.
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A doctor in Brazil could prove to be one of history's worst serial killers of mankind, according to the British newspaper The Guardian.
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Virginia Soares de Souza is being investigated by the Brazilian health authorities on suspicion of intentionally killing close to 300 patients to free up hospital beds at the Hospital Evangelico in Curitiba, south Brazil.
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Toronto -
A beloved Toronto doctor from the Little Italy area has been arrested and charged with sexual assault of one of his young patients.
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Los Angeles -
Reports say that reality TV star Kim Kardashian, expecting a baby with her boyfriend Kanye West, was rushed to the doctors on Tuesday night fearing she was having a miscarriage.
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A woman in central Sweden went to the doctor because she had a sore shoulder but instead of receiving care she ended up being invited to the doctor's home and was given a sex toy as a gift.
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Melbourne -
A bottle of vodka turned out to be a puppy's best friend after the inquisitive pup drank antifreeze and began to go into kidney failure.
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Cairo -
Egyptian police officials have announced the arrest of five individuals who were involved in a baby selling operation at a Cairo hospital.
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A health website has launched a campaign, "The Big Check," a new test of obesity for men: take off your clothes, stand upright naked and look down at your penis. If you can't see it, then you are obese and at risk of losing up to nine years of lifespan.
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South Pittsburg -
Scott DesJarlais, a republican anti-abortion rights physician elected to the US House of representatives in 2010, has admitted to having an affair with one of his patients and then pressuring her to have an abortion when she became pregnant.
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A video going viral is that of a Illinois senate hopeful, Dr. Barbara Bellar, offering a frank statement of her opinion of Obamacare.
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Britain's Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has launched an inquiry after a senior GP advised would-be family doctors to act "less overtly gay" if they want to pass their exams.
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Dr. Emily Gibson, a physician, has challenged the "war on pubic hair." The doctor advises against pubic hair removal, saying hair removal often leads to genital boils, abscesses and infections.
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A 21-year-old man from Chicago received an M.D. from the University of Chicago, making him the youngest person ever to receive the award from the university.
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A 77-year-old man was jailed for 8 years yesterday for acting as a doctor, falsely diagnosing cancer and offering perverted cures to women.
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Moscow -
In a case of "off road rage" a Russian gynecologist had a nervous breakdown and drove his car into the auto shop, smashing vehicles as he went.
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Topeka -
While the former Kansas abortion provider is not likely to face criminal charges for discarding patients' private records in a recycling bin, there are worries about potential violations of patient privacy laws.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta says he is concerned about a Pakistani doctor who provided the key information to find al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
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A Miami Gardens woman who wanted a "ghetto booty" got a "flat-tire fix" operation instead. A "doctor" injected a deadly concoction of cement, oil, tyre sealant, and sealed her up with super-glue in what was supposed to be a buttocks enhancement surgery.
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Stockport -
A tooth belonging to former Beatle John Lennon, described as 'gruesome, yellowy-brown, with a cavity,' was purchased by a Canadian dentist for a record £19,500 (US $31,000) at an auction Saturday in the U.K.
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Sam Parnia, M.D., Ph.D. is a critical care physician and director of resuscitation research at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York
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The doctor who attended Janine Meiring that fateful night could possibly have his medical license revoked.
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