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Tiana Berardi was denied an appointment with her doctor because she wasn't vaccinated. She's since filed a professional misconduct complaint with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia.. Tiana Berardi never got to see her family doctor. But she had followed the directions of her physician in a telephone appointment the day before. The Lower Sackville woman had lingering bronchitis and her antibiotics had run out. Her doctor wanted to have a closer look and asked Berardi to book an in-person appointment at the clinic. She did and got a checkup scheduled for the following afternoon. Except her...

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Two months ago, we posted a story describing how three healthcare-related non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are conspiring to undo hard-fought improvements in work rules, pertaining to surgical resident physicians. The NGOs in question are the American Board of Surgery, the American College of Surgeons, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Leading the pack in this endeavor is ACGME, which just five years earlier did cut the number of allowable hours that these residents could put in. As it happens, the cut in hours was forced on the industry, based on outrageous violations in which the stated hours were...

Splendid news: Our homeland security officials have sent fresh warnings to foreign governments that "human bombs" may try to board planes with surgically implanted explosives. The ticking terrorists are reportedly getting help from murder-minded Arab Muslim physicians trained in the West. Infidels beware: Dr. Jihad's version of the health care oath omits the "no" in "Do no harm." The death docs may be using their expertise to play "Hide the IED" in body cavities that bomb-detection equipment cannot penetrate. At least one Saudi operative has been nabbed with explosives in his bum, and British intel picked up on Arab website...

This video is about the current health care situation from a Surgeons perspective. Some of the humor contains inside jokes, but the topics discussed go to the heart of what is wrong with Obamacare. Click the link above, sit back and enjoy. By the end hopefully you will have an increased understanding of at least one Surgeons view on the current health care environment.

A national group representing doctors and surgeons filed suit over the new health care reform legislation, saying it “spells the end of freedom in medicine” in the U.S. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) wants the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to be overturned, according to its suit filed March 26 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “If the PPACA goes unchallenged, then it spells the end of freedom in medicine as we know it,” said Jane Orient, a doctor and the executive director of AAPS, in a statement. “Courts should not...

CHICAGO—The American College of Surgeons is deeply disturbed over the uninformed public comments President Obama continues to make about the high-quality care provided by surgeons in the United States. When the President makes statements that are incorrect or not based in fact, we think he does a disservice to the American people at a time when they want clear, understandable facts about health care reform. We want to set the record straight. Yesterday during a town hall meeting, President Obama got his facts completely wrong. He stated that a surgeon gets paid $50,000 for a leg amputation when, in fact,...

Despite Barack Obama's claim that he wants the truth to be known about his Universal Health Care plans, he sure does his part to spread his own disinformation: Statement From The American College Of Surgeons Regarding Disinformation Being Spread By Barack Obama 84rules August 13, 2009

An Iraqi Soldier watches as Iraqi Lt. Amar K. Gaad, nurse and flight medic instructor, marshals the litter into the C-130 Hercules during aero-medical evacuation transport training at New Al-Muthana Air Base, Iraq, June 2. The four-week course, once taught by U.S. instructors, is now instructed by Iraqis. Photo by Senior Airman Jacqueline Romero. NEW AL MUTHANA AIR BASE — As U.S. forces withdraw in the future, the Iraqi Air Force will assume new missions and responsibilities. One such mission is the Aero-Medical training of flight medical technicians, also known as "flight medics."The four-week training course is now taught by...

Iraqi Air Force and Army members strap a person on a litter inside a UH1 Huey helicopter during the aero-medical evacuation class at New al-Muthana Air Base, Iraq, April 20, 2009. Photo by Senior Airman Jacqueline Romero. NEW AL MUTHANA AIR BASE — Air Force flight surgeons continued their mission to train Iraqi Air Force and Army flight surgeons here recently, better preparing the Iraqi officers to eventually take over the aerospace medicine mission. "The Coalition Air Force Training Team is conducting a flight surgeon training course here in Iraq," said Col. William W. Dodson III, Multi-National Security Transition Command...

President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. Gupta has told administration officials that he wants the job, and the final vetting process is under way. He has asked for a few days to figure out the financial and logistical details of moving his family from Atlanta to Washington but is expected to accept the offer. When reached for comment today, Gupta did not deny the account but declined to comment. The offer followed a two-hour Chicago meeting...

12/29/2008 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) -- With precision-guided instrumentation and steady hands, a surgical team here is returning injured warfighters to the fight. Dr. (Maj.) Daniel Todd Rose, orthopedic surgeon, and Dr. (Maj.) Craig Kolasch, general surgeon, both with the 379th Expeditionary Medical Group, handle most of the minor surgeries and injuries in the area of responsibility. "What we do here is very important," said Doctor Rose, deployed from Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. "Almost every servicemember who doesn't receive care here would most likely be going back to the U.S. or Landstuhl. Once they are in the U.S. they're...

Surgeons of the future may have to learn welding rather than sewing, now that a team of applied physicists at Tel Aviv University have developed an efficient and safe way to close incisions in the skin that they say could also be used on cuts inside the body. Dr. David Simhon performs the experimental 'welding' procedure. Photo: Courtesy of Tel Aviv Universtiy The team was led by Prof. Abraham Katzir, who found a way to maintain laser heat at the correct temperature so that the incision is sealed to minimize the risk of infection and scars and speed healing. Katzir...

Spine surgeons at Pine Creek Medical Center in Dallas have established themselves as the leaders of a cutting-edge surgical procedure that utilizes a patient's own adult stem cells to regenerate tissue.   Doctors Douglas Won, Michael Rimlawi, and Francisco J. Battle, all spine surgeons, have extensive experience in harvesting adult stem cells during routine spinal procedures and delivering those cells back to their patients to aid in the treatment of severe back pain.  According to the World Research Group, disorders of the spine are one of the largest public health problems in the U.S. and as the population ages, incidents of...

On top of his 10- to 12-hour workday, Dr. Phillip Proctor rotates being on call to cover his surgical specialty in the emergency room at Providence Hospital in Northeast. "I might have to cancel patient hours if I have to go into surgery, depending on when the surgery takes place," says Dr. Proctor, a urologist in private practice in the physicians building at Providence and chairman of the hospital's Operating Room Committee. "It does impact your daily business." This impact comes, in part, from a shortage of surgeons faced by hospitals and emergency facilities nationwide. To address this shortage, hospitals...

8/11/2006 - BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- During a 24-hour shift that began at 7 a.m. on Aug. 7, an Air Force surgeon treated 18 patients with injuries that varied from a crushed foot and multiple improvised explosive device penetrations to gunshot wounds through the thigh and head. For Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Steve Barnes, the surgeon of the day, this meant nine operations, five of which were performed on Americans, three on Iraqis and one insurgent. "I volunteered to come to Balad for both personal and professional reasons," said the trauma surgeon instructor based at Cincinnati's University Hospital in...

Surgeons fought for hours to save Castro's life By Phil Hart in Havana (Filed: 06/08/2006) Doctors at the exclusive Cimeq hospital in western Havana are accustomed to handling the delicate health problems of Cuba's communist elite. It was here last weekend, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt, that they battled for several hours to save the life of the regime's most important patient, Fidel Castro. Unable to stem intestinal bleeding with drugs, the country's top surgeons performed an emergency operation on the veteran leader. To all but a handful of trusted doctors and his closest lieutenants, President Castro's medical condition has...

For America's baby boomers, a generation weaned on Jack LaLanne, shaped by Jane Fonda videos and sculpted in the modern-day gym, too much of a good thing has consequences. Encouraged by doctors to continue to exercise three to five times a week for their health, a legion of running, swimming and biking boomers are flouting the conventional limits of the middle-aged body's abilities, and filling the nation's operating rooms and orthopedists' offices in the process. They need knee and hip replacements, surgery for cartilage and ligament damage, and treatment for tendinitis, arthritis, bursitis and stress fractures. The phenomenon even has...

Surgeons Remove Two Fetuses From InfantBy PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 22 minutes ago A doctor pumps oxygen to two-month-old Pakistani girl Nazia after she went through a major surgery at a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 28, 2006. Surgeons operated on Nazia to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother's womb. The chief doctor who performed the operation said 'Basically, it's a case of triplets, but two of the siblings grew in the other'. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl...

Death rates for each surgeon are published By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent(Filed: 07/02/2006)The patient death rates for every surgeon in Scotland were published yesterday amid warnings that a league table of surgeons would be "meaningless and misleading". The figures were released following requests under the Freedom of Information Act. In England and Wales, death rate figures for heart bypass surgery have been published by cardiac surgeons but the Scottish statistics are understood to be the most comprehensive published in any country.They detail the name of every surgeon, the hospitals in which he or she has operated, the number of...