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External defibrillation was first performed in 1952 and continues as a routine procedure in hospitals and ambulances. The problem of external defibrillation has not been a technological one, but rather a legal one. Only in the 1990s have laws been passed to permit people other than doctors and paramedics to operate semiautomatic defibrillators to provide help when it is needed. New and better defibrillation devices continue to come to market and are easier and safer to use. 

Provide mandatory medical surveillance for classified workers, e.g. medical examinations prior to commencement of radioactive work followed by check-ups annually or when overexposure may have occurred. (In the UK the surveillance must be undertaken by appointed doctors and records retained for at least 50 years.)... 

All cases of ingestion should be refeired to a doctor and/or hospital without delay. 

Anesthesia Anesthesia is a loss of sensation or feeling. Anesthesia (or "anesthetics") is often used deliberately by doctors and dentists to block pain and other sensations during surgical procedures. Treatment for pre- or postoperative pain is called analgesia. 

This is an organization of doctors and nurses based in area offices and form the medical arm of the HSE. The EMAS provides advice, at the request of the employer, employee, self-employed, trade union representative or medical practitioner, on the effects of work on health. 

The main disadvantage of deep peel is the special set up needed for the procedure, due to the potential cardiotoxicity of phenol. In addition, special training is needed for the doctor and the office staff before the implementation of this technique in the daily practice. 

These data can then be fed into electronic medical records (EMR) such as those the NHS plans to introduce throughout the UK over the next 2 years. This represents a process that will ultimately both reduce the frequency with which patients have to visit their doctor and improve health care delivery. EMR or electronic personal health records (as they are also known) have already been established, or are being established, in many European nations, such as Denmark. The United States, with its decentralized health care industry, is behind the curve in these efforts. However, in early fall of 2005, IBM and eight other IT companies that form the Technology CEO Council (TCC), including Intel, HP, Dell, Motorola, EMC, Applied Materials, NCR, and Unisys committed to adopt electronic health records based on open standards. In addition to these private sector efforts, the US Department of... 

New, interactive in silico teaching and educational tools will be available for doctors and the greater public. This will help to improve professional skills and general health awareness. Future health-related implications of an individual s behavioural patterns or of various treatment strategies can be assessed and compared on the basis of long-term case predictions. 

Patients tend to believe that medications from nature are non-toxic, non-addicted, and non-invasive. Therefore complementary medicines are usually used in common, less severe, and chronic mental disorders such as sleep disorders, neurasthenia, and anxiety disorders. It is also applied in incurable conditions, for example dementias, autism, and schizophrenia, when doctors and families have tried desperately all means and finally turned to complementary medicine as the last hope. 

Ruland, Martin. A lexicon of alchemy or Alchemical dictionary / by Martinus Rulandus, Philosopher, Doctor and private physician to the August person the Emperor. fhttp //www.ebrarv.coml. 1992. 

Trevisan, Bernard. "The prefaratory epistle of... to the noble doctor and most learned philosopher Thomas of Bononia." In Aurofontina chymica, 269-270., 1680. 

Many doctors and patients have reacted to our meta-analysis with simple disbelief. David Nutt, head of the Psychopharmacology Unit at the University of Bristol, said, Antidepressants work in clinical practice - everybody knows they work. Another critic wrote ... 

If the chemical-imbalance theory is wrong, and if depression is not a brain disease, how is it produced and how can it be prevented and treated One way to look for clues is to examine the process by which we were misled into the realm of chemistry. There is a culprit hiding in the history of the chemical-imbalance theory - a culprit that is guilty of leading doctors and patients astray over and over again in the history of medicine. The culprit is the placebo effect, and its darker twin, the nocebo effect. Depressed people got better when given MAO and reuptake inhibitors as antidepressants, and this led researchers to conclude that depression must be caused by a chemical deficiency. But much (if not all) of that improvement turns out to be a placebo effect. So to understand depression and how it might be treated effectively, we need to examine the placebo effect more carefully. That is the topic of the next two chapters. 

If we are to harness the placebo effect and make use of it in clinical practice, we first have to understand how it works. A number of factors have been proposed as explanations of the placebo effect. These include the relationship between doctors and patients, the patient s beliefs and expectations, the production of opiates in the brain, and a phenomenon called classical conditioning, in which people come to associate pills and injections with therapeutic effects, just as Pavlov s dogs came to associate the sound of a bell with the presentation of food. In this chapter we look at how all of these processes combine to produce placebo effects, and we consider their implications for the treatment of depression. 

Perhaps it is my background as a psychotherapist that leads me to be concerned about the widespread practice of deceptively giving patients placebos. As a therapist, I learned that one of the principal factors in the success of treatment is the relationship between the doctor and the patient. Trust is one of the central components of the therapeutic relationship, but trust has to be earned. When it is betrayed, it is lost. So my concern is as much practical as it is ethical. When doctors deceive their patients, they violate their patients trust. In the long run they will lose it and, in so doing, they will lose one of the most effective weapons in their clinical arsenal. 

The use of propaganda techniques made famous by Joseph Goebbels became such a sublime way of Influencing the masses that our latter day propagandists are now more numerous than ever. The only thing that has changed is their title they now call themselves "spin doctors", and they aren t spinning the truth. 

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