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Are You Interested In Medical School?

16 hours ago ago from ORTHOPAEDIC & MEDICAL COMPLEX

The study of medicine is an extremely prestigious and important field. Many children dream of being doctors while they are growing up because they like the idea of being able to help people feel better. As you grow older, you realize all the hard work (and high cost) medical school actually is. The few who can weather the competition in their biology classes during undergraduate studies and survive the medical school application process have ...

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Junior doctors to be tested for prescribing skills

19 hours ago ago from BlogtoShare - Little Library Blog

A study commissioned by the GMC into the causes and prevalence of prescribing errors by Foundation Year doctors found that 8.9% of the prescriptions issued by doctors had errors, some of which could harm patients. 124,260 prescriptions were checked by pharmacists in 19 hospital trusts in north-west England and 11,077 errors were found. The errors included omitting drugs, wrong doses, patients’ allergies not taking into account, illegible ...

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H1N1 (Swine Flu): True or False? Flu Viruses Live Longer on Surfaces Than Cold Viruses

9 hours ago ago from H1N1 (Swine Flu) - Pandemic Influenza News

Most people know that cold and flu viruses can contaminate doorknobs, handrails, elevator buttons and other surfaces. Studies have found that the survival time for both kinds of viruses varies greatly, from a few seconds to 48+ hours. The reasons have to do with a number of factors, including the type of surface, humidity and temperature. For example, cold and flu viruses survive longer on inanimate surfaces that are nonporous, like ...

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Spiritual Needs Rank High as Death From Cancer Nears

5 hours ago ago from Renegade Neurologist

Being at peace with God' affects medical choices, study finds From Sharp.com: Addressing the spiritual needs of someone with advanced cancer could be just as important as taking care of their medical needs, a new study suggests. When asked what was important to them at the end of their lives, people dying of cancer ranked two factors highest: pain control and being at peace with God, the study found. Medicine tends to focus on ...

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