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Hello /medfag/s!
This is a board for all of us that have any connection with the health world, including but not limited to doctors, nurses, biologists, pharmacologists, physiotherapists, epidemiologists, administration professionals, medical law specialists, students…
All news, feels, ethics, lifestyle, politics and medical related discussion belongs here.
Please note that no personnal health questions will be tolerated on this board, but clinical cases from magazines will (if source provided).
No doxxing or revelation of personal information allowed.
fun allowed
Rules: https://8ch.net/medfag/rules.html
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Does donating bone marrow or blood plasma have any negative effects on your own health? I'm not an expert, but it seems pretty logical to me that taking away stem cells that were supposed to be used by yourself can take a toll on you or at least have some negative effect in the long run. If you take away blood plasma, doesn't your body have to work harder to get the usual levels back? Wouldn't it effect your mortality rate by at least a tiny bit? I need some bucks, but I'm obsessed with living longer and being healthy.
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Isn't vaccination pretty much like homeopathy?
Isn't vaccination pretty much like homeopathy?
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How is the national health system in your country?
Here in Spain it's free for workers that are afiliated to social security, as well as his/her husband/wife and sons. However, if you are over 26 and have never worked you have to pay for it.
If you are fired from work, you are granted free access as well. Currently, foreigner can only access emergency services.
The management of the system is taken care by every region, which can make its own regulations on Public Health.
One downside is that there can be long times until you are attended by an specialist or for some kind of surgerys.
Private insurances are also possible, but not quite popular.
NHS
Sup guys!How is the national health system in your country?
Here in Spain it's free for workers that are afiliated to social security, as well as his/her husband/wife and sons. However, if you are over 26 and have never worked you have to pay for it.
If you are fired from work, you are granted free access as well. Currently, foreigner can only access emergency services.
The management of the system is taken care by every region, which can make its own regulations on Public Health.
One downside is that there can be long times until you are attended by an specialist or for some kind of surgerys.
Private insurances are also possible, but not quite popular.
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How i can make those hours feel less anal?
What's your study method?
Medstudent here
I'm 2 years in. I'm having a hard time trying to force myself beyond 3 hours of study. It's painful.How i can make those hours feel less anal?
What's your study method?
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Intro to Pharmacology
Intro to Pharmacology
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Pharmacy employee here.
Anyone else?
Also, yes, we probably fucked up your prescription.
Pharmacy employee here.
Anyone else?
Also, yes, we probably fucked up your prescription.
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Why did you choose to study medicine? What are your motivations?
As a teen I really loved biology, and I didn't picture me working in a office helping other people to get rich. I really feel that my job is important because you can help people in a way that may impact their lifes. Now I'm just struggling to sit through all this info teachers "throw" at us and choose and specialty.
Why did you choose to study medicine? What are your motivations?
As a teen I really loved biology, and I didn't picture me working in a office helping other people to get rich. I really feel that my job is important because you can help people in a way that may impact their lifes. Now I'm just struggling to sit through all this info teachers "throw" at us and choose and specialty.
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Pic related pretty much explains things. UPMC keeps buying up hospitals and clinics and everything, and the contracts to have practicing privileges at any of their facilities effectively makes you a salaried employee for the company rather than an independent professional.
Hospital administrators (at ones still independent) also mess around with physician certifications and a lot of other stuff which are simply cumbersome for the physicians. Insurance reimbursement rates are low. HMO's are penny pinching know-it-alls that inhibit the doctor-patient relationship.
At the same time, the red tape and reimbursement rates for the government aid programs are a drag. Let's not get into the matter of tort law and ridiculous lawsuits.
So I came across this article which championed the return of medicine to a medieval setting:
>having state-chartered physicians' guilds which would own all the productive capital
>provide insurance plans to people
>train apprentices rather than people blowing loads on medical school for an uncertain future
>would handle matters of medical malpractice in-house, instead of the slickest lawyer pursuading a jury guaranteed during selection to have no medical expertise in it
>would have a legally enforced monopoly, but the charter could be revoked by the state and new one given to another emergent association should the old one grow corrupt, incompetent, etc.
http://distributistreview.com/mag/2011/07/distributism-and-the-health-care-system/
Going Back To The Guild System
Son of an OB/GYN practicing in the Pittsburgh market here.Pic related pretty much explains things. UPMC keeps buying up hospitals and clinics and everything, and the contracts to have practicing privileges at any of their facilities effectively makes you a salaried employee for the company rather than an independent professional.
Hospital administrators (at ones still independent) also mess around with physician certifications and a lot of other stuff which are simply cumbersome for the physicians. Insurance reimbursement rates are low. HMO's are penny pinching know-it-alls that inhibit the doctor-patient relationship.
At the same time, the red tape and reimbursement rates for the government aid programs are a drag. Let's not get into the matter of tort law and ridiculous lawsuits.
So I came across this article which championed the return of medicine to a medieval setting:
>having state-chartered physicians' guilds which would own all the productive capital
>provide insurance plans to people
>train apprentices rather than people blowing loads on medical school for an uncertain future
>would handle matters of medical malpractice in-house, instead of the slickest lawyer pursuading a jury guaranteed during selection to have no medical expertise in it
>would have a legally enforced monopoly, but the charter could be revoked by the state and new one given to another emergent association should the old one grow corrupt, incompetent, etc.
http://distributistreview.com/mag/2011/07/distributism-and-the-health-care-system/
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Why was my topic deleted?
Why was my topic deleted?
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Nowadays more women (due their careers or profession) choose to have children at older age, using fertility treatments in order to achieve maternity.
It seems to me that this is pushing too hard on nature, as having children at older ages (35 and more) increases risks of genetic mutations and fetus development would be subpar; as well as increased risk for the mother. It would be preferably to make more compatible laboral opportunities and motherhood.
What's your instance on this topic?
Has science gone too far? :^)
Nowadays more women (due their careers or profession) choose to have children at older age, using fertility treatments in order to achieve maternity.
It seems to me that this is pushing too hard on nature, as having children at older ages (35 and more) increases risks of genetic mutations and fetus development would be subpar; as well as increased risk for the mother. It would be preferably to make more compatible laboral opportunities and motherhood.
What's your instance on this topic?
Has science gone too far? :^)
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http://www.medscape.com/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
Please, suggest more sites and they will be added.
Interesting websites
http://www.nejm.org/http://www.medscape.com/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
Please, suggest more sites and they will be added.